Who was the prime minister of Japan during WW2? What caused the Japanese invasion of Manchuria? Why was the war called the Sino-Japanese War? Was the Battle of Nanking in the Second Sino-Japanese War? What province of northern China did Japan invade in 1931?
Multiple important generals took part in the Battle of Okinawa. Mitsuru Ushijima was the general who led the forces of the Imperial Japanese Army... See full answer below. Learn more about this topic: Battle of Okinawa in WW2 | Summary, Significance & Facts ...
On my last night in Hoi An, I stayed with Paul and his lovely, extremely hospitable family. They have built a gorgeous home (Song Em Hoi An) on the bank of the river and have recently added a beautiful swimming pool which you can watch the sunset over the river from. I was able to...
This seemingly successful business man was important in the rise and rise of Tiger Ted pre-War, his final push into the top rank was provided post-War by Lou Abrahams. While the contribution of Abrahams to Gray’s rise to the very front of Australian Formula Libre racing aboard the Alta...
I’ve been on the proverbial journey with this over the past couple of years, since I joined my current school, and I was keen to share what I’d been doing and why I thought it was important. This blog post is much of what I said (or intended to say). I found that I was ...
It was something to look forward to having so enjoyed her previous novels, Crooked Heart, Old Baggage and V for Victory. This novel introduces some new characters, set just as WW2 comes to an end. Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, finds himself a reluctant heir to a dilapidated estate. The...
an American who lived in Francophone Africa for 19 years and has served multiple times as an interpreter and translator during those years. Her father was a World War II veteran in the Pacific Theater, and her great uncle was chief of the labor branch of the OSS in London during the war...
But when I was finished reading I definitely knew that this wasn't a Jean Graton album at all because of at least one thing missing in the story of which I am certain that Monsieur Graton would have added it to the story somehow. ...
LeDure was like, “Hey you assholes, that fucking locomotive was on, and was only paused for like an hour before it was to depart again, so it was clearly in use.” But Union Pacific was like, “Listen, you clumsy fuck. We have the fucking receipts. That engine had been sitting for...
Sometime on the evening of Monday the 26th, Dave had driven himself to the Emergency Department at the Casino and District Memorial Hospital in Casino, NSW, about a three-hour drive from home in Brisbane, presenting “very agitated and elevated.” According to the report, he was a veteran,...