Franklin DRoosevelt;1932-45 only 4 term president, whose misguided fiscal actions extended the great depression for many years. President during WWII & unlike other world leaders, he had the good sense to avoid military decisions but Stalin played him like a cheap flute when it came to politics...
The "Ritchie Boys," as they're known today, weren't your average American soldiers — they represented 70 different nationalities and spoke many different languages. The best-known Ritchie Boys were 2,800 Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria who fled the Holocaust, then heroically returned ...
Though it only takes one person to fire a sniper rifle, it really takes two soldiers to get the most out of the sniper-rifle weapon system. That's why snipers always work in pairs. A sniper team consists of a sniper and a spotter. The two-man team offers many advantages over ...
Agent Orange and its cleanup are still contentious issues. Dioxin has dissipated in many areas, but concentrations of the poison are still high in some regions, particularly where South Vietnamese and U.S. soldiers stored Agent Orange.
strikes and protests broke out. Russia was in a state of chaos. The army was sent in to control the situation, but many of the soldiers sympathized with the workers and defected, choosing to support them instead. As many as 150,000 soldiers joined the massive protest — which is now know...
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
ARE the Russian soldiers in good enough physical shape to walk home while starving. ? Quartermaster hasn't fed many troops in 4 days. Expand They are leaving so many AA assets behind, because they'll be hit within 1/2 hours by a squad driving civilian veh...
Our soldiers are dying to protect Israel. Jews are to America what Brutus was to Julius Caesar: Traitor. patrick Rodgers December 3, 2010 @ 4:42 pm In 2008 when Bernard Madoff and the Jews on Wall Street Took down the American Financial system, how many people were arrested? New Yor...
WWII US Army Serial Numbers: Meaning in the First Digits The U.S. Army began issuing serial numbers to help avoid mixing the records of people with the same name. (A genealogist’s dream come true!) When we dig a little deeper into the number itself, we can learn a bit about the pe...
I got out of the car and started running and running until I saw group of soldiers and fell on the ground. They took me to a safe place; after five minutes I remembered that Ester is still in the car, and I have to go back right now. They didn’t listen to me, but there’s ...