Tag: ww-2
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December 07, 2007 09:38 AM EST --
Today is the day of infamy! Japan attacked the USA at Pearll Harbor on this day 66 years ago! As a vet of a later war I salute those men & women who served in that war & honor the meory of all . . .
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June 29, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
Pilot in Doolittle Raid Dies
Air Force Association
NAPLES, Fla. -- Col. Jack Ahren Sims was among the first pilots to fly in the Doolittle Tokyo Raid on April 18, 1942 -- the first United States aerial . . .
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November 04, 2008 06:25 AM EST --
USNA-At-Large, thanks to John Price, Don Rockwell and Steve McDonald --
DOWN TO ONE MARINE
On Nov. 15, 2003, an 85-year-old retired Marine Corps colonel died of congestive heart failure . . .
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June 21, 2007 12:29 PM EDT --
Moscow's Poklonnaya Mountain
There lies in Moscow a place called a mountian that is actually a flat top hill. It is famous for several reasons.
This hill is situated in the western part of Moscow, . . .
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May 31, 2008 06:37 AM EDT --
Iliana smuggled infants out in the bottom of her tool box she carried, and she carried in the back of her truck a Burlap sack(for larger kids).
She also had a dog in the back, that she trained to . . .
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October 21, 2006 03:17 PM EDT --
It was upon Iwo Jima, Japanese Islands, Western Pacific Ocean, in the month of February 1945, that an event took place which has become an icon for the USA, the Department of the Navy & the Maribe . . .
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September 29, 2006 08:32 AM EDT --
Tokyo Rose a.k.a. Iva Toguri DÁquino
Most people in the USA have heard of Tokyo Rose. They have seen too . . .
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March 18, 2008 12:17 PM EDT --
{ During WW-2 the people of the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia looked upon the German nazis as their saviors. Teh Nazis liberated thjem from the Communist Russians & gave them . . .
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February 05, 2008 09:08 AM EST --
[ There will those who decry this article & my willingness to accept the actions supported herein. Unless you have been involved in the gathering of combat intelligence in a combat zone under . . .
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June 16, 2008 12:16 PM EDT --
SOME OF US MAY NOT BE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT NEARLY EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA WAS GROSSLY AFFECTED BY WW II. MOST OF US MAY NOT REMEMBER THE RATIONING OF MEAT, SHOES, BUTTER, GASOLINE, AND . . .
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September 21, 2007 11:22 AM EDT --
I thought you might find the following article from Snopes. very interesting. I did!
http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/holocaust.asp
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June 06, 2008 06:33 PM EDT --
A Girl with an Apple
August 1942. Piotrkow, Poland. The sky was gloomy that morning as we waited anxiously. All the men, women and children of Piotrkow's Jewish ghetto had been herded into a square. . . .
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May 23, 2006 08:48 AM EDT --
Many people ask me the usual range of questions when I reveal that I work & have worked for a long time on the former Soviet Union. These range from the assinine, "Aren't you afraid of them?" . . .
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November 09, 2007 01:02 PM EST --
Unearthing Mass Graves In Ukraine Unveils History
By Michael J. Jordan
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
9 Nov. 2007
This article may be republished in its entire form only, for educatuional, enlightment . . .
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April 30, 2006 09:34 AM EDT --
An Old Soldier
My first introduction the man was on the operating table in a Ukrainian hospital Kyiv. The patient was prepped for surgery or so we were told. We stepped into the room, gowned, . . .
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July 14, 2008 08:45 AM EDT --
The Last Nazi Hunter
14 July 2008
Lindsay McIntosh
The Scotsman
THE unrelenting rain of a Patagonian downpour drills through humid air to batter the lace- curtained windows of a modest chalet. . . .
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May 03, 2006 08:09 AM EDT --
Baba Yar: Garden of Death
It was easily noticeable in 1941, that the focus as well as the function of the Einsatzgruppen had changed greatly. At the inception of Operation Barbarossa, . . .
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August 14, 2006 10:17 AM EDT --
Kalashnikov: Father of the AK-47
Just as Samuel Colt's name is synonymous with revolvers in the world of firearms so is the name Kalashnikov synonymous with assault rifles. The most . . .
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October 04, 2008 05:50 AM EDT --
In WW-2 the airwar, especially in Europe was won by pilots flying a variety of planes. One of teh most superior was the P-51 Mustang! The P-51 is a single engine plane that was used to bomber cover/escort, . . .
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