Tag: world war ii
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August 26, 2008 09:48 AM EDT --
This is my mother-in-law's story, which I promised to write. It's a story about how governments decide to start wars, and people suffer for it. In this case, the government was Japan and the Japanese . . .
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August 13, 2009 11:40 AM EDT --
A majority of Americans believe that the United States was right in dropping atomic bombs on Japan in 1945. (Quinnipiac University poll--last week)
Right: 61%
Wrong: 22%
Undecided: 16%
I . . .
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August 31, 2009 08:49 PM EDT --
First, no, RED ROVER is not a book about a dog. Deidre McNamer could have chosen a better title for this very moving story.
And whoever chose the cover (or dust jacket) should have picked . . .
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September 24, 2007 08:56 AM EDT --
Is there any award for documentary film making that Ken Burns has yet to receive? I don't actually know. Anyway, his lofty and well earned reputation makes "The War", his latest product, . . .
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August 16, 2007 08:51 PM EDT --
August 14 is designated as National Code Talker Day. This year I was privileged to witness a small ceremony celebrating the Navajo men who literally turned the tide of World War II against . . .
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September 28, 2007 11:40 AM EDT --
I am absolutely riveted to the TV screen as I watch Ken Burn’s production of World War II, and in particular how it affected average families all over the United States. I think Burns has done . . .
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March 02, 2009 05:37 PM EST --
During world war II eggs hard to find. The homemakers had to cook without them. This recipe is one that was created during this time so it has no eggs in it. My Grandmother used to make this and . . .
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June 05, 2007 04:50 PM EDT --
My dad was sent back in 1945 from France, sick and exhausted. He had fought in the Normandy Invasion and in the Battle of the Bulge. He was a captain in the Army Corps of Engineers, attached to SHAEF, . . .
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February 24, 2008 06:15 PM EST --
BB57 The USS South Dakota; Battleship "X"
Old Nameless, as she was sometimes affectionately called, became a legend before she was a year old. Security was tight. U. S. leaders were tense. . . .
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September 03, 2008 03:01 PM EDT --
The era of battleships overlapped the era of biplanes from shortly before World War I until maybe early1942, when all of the major combatants except to some extent Italy had phased out biplanes, and battleships . . .
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June 16, 2008 09:40 PM EDT --
"Does your cat look like Adolf Hitler? Do you wake up in a cold sweat every night wondering if he's going to up and invade Poland? Does he keep putting his right paw in the air while making a . . .
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July 28, 2008 07:30 PM EDT --
This 1949 film is a classic in every sense of the word. It was directed by Orson Wells, who also plays a major part. The plot takes place immediately after World War II and captures the nostalgic . . .
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October 08, 2008 03:15 PM EDT --
What Actually Happened : After World War I, the US was in a position to quickly displace the British Royal Navy as the strongest naval power in the world. The US had enough powerful modern . . .
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October 08, 2008 03:24 PM EDT --
Yet another entry into the “Roosevelt provoked the Japs and knew about Pearl Harbor in advance” genre. It differs from many of the earlier books in that genre in that it says that Roosevelt’s . . .
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January 19, 2009 01:32 AM EST --
The boycott my Aunts Johanna and Margareta conducted against the British Empire always reminds me of my father’s story about the mouse making love to an elephant underneath a coconut tree. A coconut . . .
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February 14, 2009 07:46 PM EST --
Who Am I:
- I was born in San Gabriel, CA on November 11, 1885.
- I came from a wealthy family of Scottish descent and many of my male ancestors were military warriors and heroes.
- I attended . . .
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December 07, 2009 12:44 PM EST --
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On December 7, 1941 the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A surprise attack by the Japanese that destroyed our Naval fleet in Pearl Harbor . . .
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February 10, 2008 11:27 PM EST --
It's the city's most infamous, after hours haunt a glittering hotbead of deals and debaucheries. The sordid death of Philip Stilwell sends shock waves through the Alibic Club, for there's . . .
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December 19, 2008 03:18 PM EST --
Granddad was in the wooden greenhouse pottering around with his plants. Gran was in the front parlour sitting in her chair by the fire staring into the flames. Tess was sitting opposite with a book open . . .
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July 06, 2009 09:08 PM EDT --
I'm currrently reading a book entitled "Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary" which contains the memoirs of Hitlers last secretary. In it I've learned some interesting tidbits about him . . .
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