Imperial Japan and the United States were archenemies during the War in the Pacific portion of WW2 and after numerous bloody battles, the firebombing of Tokyo, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Imperial Japan was defeated and now the US and Japan are close allies and trading...
ww2dbaseThe first week of September 1939 saw Germany's invasion of Poland that was quickly followed by Britain and France's declaration of war with Germany. It appeared the conflict would widen across Europe in a very similar manner to the opening stages of the First World War. Once again, ...
“We have no intention of affiliating with the United Party, but since the National Party was elected to power in a constitutional way, we must fight them constitutionally, and we can only do this by helping the United Party.” (the largest and most viable opposition party). However, the ...
As military veterans we stand by our hard-fought freedoms, from those who fought the ‘cold’ war of communism versus capitalism, and those of us who served to see the country through transition to an all embracing democracy. We all covet the ideals of freedoms so protected in our Republic...
Clearing the ORBITAL MINEFIELD (“Space Junk” is a poor name) we have caused and inherited Is URGENT and IMPORTANT. To deal with RIGHT NOW ... Next year (2016) it will be more difficult. By 2020 it may no longer be possible. This is a very serious AND URGENT problem that is being...
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You can’t even be honest about your role in the European theatre of WW2, your companies lie about revenue to their investors, and your leaders stand there and say everything is all fine, when all you have to do is hop in the car and take a drive around to ...
“We’re willing to work with Verizon and find a solution where everybody comes out with a win, we just want to save everything That’s our only requirement, if it’s more time that they need and if we go slower if they have less resources that’s fine but we want to save every...
Americans were very proud of their troops fighting over in Europe. People sang songs and gave money to support the war. Due to less men to farm, food was scarce. Even with the food shortage, food was needed to send over seas. People started planting war gardens to provide food for soldi...
What we covered here President Joe Biden is in Michigan Tuesday and walked the picket line with members of the United Auto Workers union amid an ongoing strike against the nation’s three largest automakers — General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. Biden’s trip, and the historic pres...