A 100-year-old American World War II veteran plans to marry his 96-year-old fiancee in France as part of that country's 80th anniversary celebration of D-Day.
My great-uncle Irwin “Irv” Carl, the youngest of his siblings and one of two children born after the family arrived in the United States, enlisted and served in World War II. At the time of his enlistment in May 1942, he had a wildly successful nightclub, the Empire Ca-BAR-et, and...
doramuir World War 2 Letters Leave a comment August 13, 2022 Out of a job soon August 12, 1945 Dear Folks: 12 Aug. Am on a cross country. Schuerman lives here and I came along to navigate. Also had 4 enlisted men as passengers. They lived in Chicago so took the train from here...
planted during war to raise vegetables for troops and homes The Sun Belt lots of people migrated for work and growth of southern California and deep south created a region called sun belt. Military Service 60,00 men enlisted the month after Pearl Harbor and 10 million men would have to be ...
The US Army of World War II was created from a tiny antebellum army in the space of just three years. On 30 June 1939 the Regular Army numbered 187,893 officers and enlisted men, including Philippine Scouts, and including 22,387 in the Army Air Corps. On the same date the National ...
Although darts in the UK had existed for many years before World War One, it was soldiers stationed in the UK that got a taste for out beer and pub games. Darts, of course, was a big hit and many dartboards made their way around the world. The Page inclu
Pianos were staples of service centers, USOs, officers' clubs, and enlisted men's clubs. Next, the Wurlitzer DeKalb Division began producing wooden aircraft components for the war effort. The size of these contracts were either smaller than the $50,000 minimum required to appear on the major ...
Photographs.The photographs on escape passports carried by U.S.A.A.F. aircrew shot down over Europe also helped to identify the unit. Photographs issued by the U.S. 91st Heavy Bomber Group, for instance, were at first recognisable by the fact that all the enlisted men and N.C.O.’s...
Japan's surrender in August 1945 was not only the final act of World War II, but also signaled the end of the country's brutal eight-year occupation of China. Seventy years on, only a handful of Chinese combatants...
We don’t find out that Salinger voluntarily enlisted in the war. The film portrays D-Day only briefly, and we don’t quite get a sense of the atrocities he lived through in France during the war─a place called the “meat grinder,” where 200 men would routinely die in the span of...