David Frey: All in service of winning the war. And there's nothing that forges unity better than having a common enemy.This is Guy Stern 80 years ago. He is among the last surviving Ritchie Boys - a group of young men – many of them German Jews – who played an outsized role in...
was being transformed into a vital staging post in the Pacific war, baseball played an essential role as a morale booster for thousands of servicemen and civilians. With at least a dozen future hall of famers on the rosters of Army, Navy and Marine Corps teams - ...
She was headhunted by "men from the ministry" in 1942 after performing well at school, her son Jonathan Betts, 68, said. She went on to work at top-secret Allied codebreaking centre Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire from the summer of 1943 until the end of the wa...
Before the war, Mengele had received doctorates in anthropology and medicine, and began a career as a researcher. He joined the Nazi Party in 1937 and the SS in 1938. He was assigned as a battalion medical officer at the start of World War II, then transferred to the Nazi concentration ...
After losing the previous two World Series to the New York Giants, the New York Yankees finally bested their crosstown rivals in six games. The 1923 title was the first for the Yankees, who would go on to win 26 more over the next 86 years and become the bane of the existence ...
By 1940, Adolf Hitler was one of the most feared individuals in the world, and what doesCharlie Chaplindo? Make an epic-length parody of his conquest for world domination. Not just a send-up of the dictator, but a prolifically important study of the human seed that is just as brave an...
Charles Vanel played Napoleon in the 1929 silent film, Waterloo. Age: Dec. at 96 (1892-1989) Birthplace: France, Rennes 99 votes Is he a good Napoleon? Photo: The Young Mr. Pitt 20th Century Fox 9 Herbert Lom Herbert Lom played Napoleon in The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) and in War and...
Joe while reading that sentence), one of the first large-scale battles of the war in Afghanistan. He was part of a six-man team that had flown back into an enemy stronghold atop a mountain to rescue a captured teammate. Their helicopter was shot down but managed to land safely -- only...
and win the National League West. Arizona got past St. Louis and Atlanta before winning a classic World Series against the Yankees on Gonzalez's walk-off bloop single against Mariano Rivera in Game 7. That was the peak for Brenly, who was let go in 2004 and returned to the broadcast ...
Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1942.At the age of twelve, after his bike was stolen, young Ali began boxing; by the time he reached high school, he was a great amateur(业余)boxer.After winning six state and two national boxing championships, he competed in the 1960 Olympic, wh...