For about 17 more years the two lived in the jungle, gathering intelligence as best they could and attacking the “enemy troops” when they could risk it. They were still convinced that eventually Japan would dispatch more troops and they would then...
Remembrance candles were placed by each of the graves by the Czechoslovak Memorial, the three Czechoslovak RAF graves opposite the RAF building in the CWGC section of Brookwood cemetery and also at each grave in the post-WW2 Czechoslovak section and concluding at the Liberator crash communal grave....
Digby was placed in command of the 2d Parachute Battalion for its assault into Arnhem during Operation Market Garden in 1944. Appreciating that military radios of the era were unreliable, Digby procured a small bugle and schooled his men on responding to commands...
based interviews, 26 bars and clubs were identified, of which one had closed down. We obtained permission to visit 14 bars and night clubs, out of 16 of the most commonly identified, to interview staff and male patrons; the selection of venues was based on those most commonly identified by...
Neighbor of the Renaud family in Sainte Mère Eglise, Maurice’s life is also marked by the events of those days following June 6, 1944. Suffering from a tragic loss, he and his family were taken in and cared for by the American troops. Maurice shares his most vulnerable and touching mom...
In the summer of 1916, nearly two years into the war,British naval engineer Herbert Taylorperfected the hydrostatic pistol, a weapon that could be detonated at predetermined depths underwater—hence the name “depth charge.” When were depth charges first used?
brothers and sweethearts were still getting killed with regularity. I suspect this is from 1944, probably later in the year, when the rapid advance across the plains of France bogged down in nasty fighting with desperate and fanatical Germans in the wooded hill country on the German border. Ugl...
94 Commandos in Fake Boobs and Blackface What if you had to disguise some commandos who were going to be walking right past enemy guards? You'd have to come up with something amazing -- lives are at stake here. Or, you could come up with something so stupid that the enemy finds it...
In the world as it now is and will probably remain, might precedes right. For us to be loyal patriots as were the Huguenots who were forced to emigrate is therefore useless. The Jews must acquire economic power sufficiently great to overcome prejudice against them.When...
About 21 percent of Alice’s federal income taxes go to Medicaid,*** so she contributed $210 per year, or about $6,000. (Let’s assume she paid no state taxes, which makes her look worse.) Total federal Medicaid expenditures were $273 billion in 2010; the federal government pays 57 ...