American Warriors,World War II,World War II in the Pacific,Writing Notes,WW2,WWII|Tags:#marines,#Pacific War,#PTO,#usmc,#wwii,World War II|Leave a comment Notes on Tom Lynch Tom Lynch is one of the great unsung and often forgotten aces of the Pacific War. Brilliant, quiet, intense–Ly...
Categories:Uncategorized,World War II in the Pacific,Writing Notes|Tags:#Pacific War,#pappygunn #indestructible #WWII #pacificwar #SantoTomas #POW #PW #Internees #1stCav #Philippines #johnrbruning,#wwii,World War II,WW2|1 Comment A Moment at Kandahar, 2010 A Moment at Kandahar, 2010: I’d...
And, General Kelley, here in the company of the generation that won the war, I proudly accept the World War II Memorial on behalf of the people of the United States of America.Raising up this Memorial took skill and vision and patience. Now the work is done, and it is a fitting ...
During World War II, four paratroopers each from England, Scotland, France and the US, were on a plane about to jump when they realized there was only one serviceable parachute. The French paratrooper downed a glass of cognac, said "Pour la France!" and jumped without the parachute. The ...
Brunswick, Braunschweig in German, is an ancient city once said to contain the ‘largest homogeneous ensemble of half-timbered houses in Germany’. Not that you would recognise that description today. Brunswick was a major centre for military production during the Second World War, and it suffered...
The way it was. Welcome Dear Readers interested in Philippine History. This site focuses on the American Colonial Era (1898 Spanish-American War to 1946 Independence). Most material relates to the interwar period between the end of WW1 and the beginning of WW2 (1920-1941). From readings and...
Soboba Tribal members have served in the armed forces of the United States in every war and conflict since WW I. The United States entered the war with the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941 ending in May 1945 in Europe and September 2, 1945 with Japan. WW II officially...
1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The Mescheryakovs were placed in a Tokyo-area internment camp for women and children, where “there was no suffering” and they were fed well. Towards the end of the war, the guards gave them the rejects from intercepted Red Cross packages (lot...
‘THE WAR WAS ON TOP OF US’ ‘I WON WORLD WAR II’ GOING OVERSEAS THE VOLUNTEER ‘YOU HAVE TO STAY HOME AND FARM’ ‘YOU’RE THE SON OF A GUN THAT WENT AWOL’ IN THE BRIG ‘MY GOD, A TORPEDO!” PICKING UP THE DEAD ‘ONE DAY THE SALVATION CAME’ ...
It explains everything why the Tsar and Hitler was anti-Semitic, why Communism in Russia until after WW2 was given a free pass and why these so called Neo-cons (really still communist at heart) are shaping a one world US foreign policy modelled on Trotskyite theory of perpetual war. And...