Lin Jingquan had just graduated from school when he was drafted in 1943. He studied medicine in the army, and witnessed the horrors of war as a surgeon on the front line. "Soldiers were sent to the hospital one gr...
To observe Veterans Day, here’s a Mark Felton piece on World War II veterans who not only became celebrities, but are still alive:They are:American actor William Daniels, most famous for St. Elsewhere and the voice of KITT in Knight Rider, but the roles I enjoyed him most for were in...
Christmas Eve: Now they tell us that there are twenty thousand soldiers still in the Zone (where they get their figures no one knows), and that they are going to hunt them out and shoot them all. That will mean every able-bodied male between the ages of 18 and 50 that is now in ...
To quote the Imperial War Museum,“During the whole war, 51% of aircrew were killed on operations, 12% were killed or wounded in non-operational accidents and 13% became prisoners of war or evaders. Only 24% survived the war unscathed.” An aircrew member was committed to fly thirty oper...
Government's Investigation of the Black Press During World War II Also negative: again, though not as much in the Pearl Harbor episode, too much time is spent recounting the general history of the war at that point, whereas specifics having to do with the few Black soldiers there are not...
Though many of the shows on this list don’t shy away from the horrors of war, the stories still usually maintain that the sacrifices made by those soldiers are part of a bigger noble cause. In Catch-22’s biting satire, however, America’s stated enemy is rarely seen, and instead the...
【题目】题序B In World War 1. an Enghsh soldier watched in horror as his best friend fell under gunfire. All he soldiers had to retrea. The sulier went to ask the offrer to let him rarry his frend.The offieer agreed. but added, "It is handly worth it. Your frend is prubably ...
Soldiers: Heroes of World War II drops you into the heart of the most intense WWII combat action. Take control of the most elite American, British, German, or Russian forces ever to impact on the war-zone. Up against overwhelming odds, you must complete your missions incorporating stealth, ...
they must have been destroyed during the war, incinerated perhaps in an air raid; otherwise, any such diary should have ended up in archives by now, available to the rest of the world. Still, I figured that it would not hurt to write some letters to Germany to see what I could find....
In World War I, an English soldier watched in horror as his best friend fell under gunfire. All thesoldiers had to retreat. The soldier went to ask the officer to let him carry his friend.The officer agreed, but added, “It is hardly worth it. Your friend is probably dead and you ma...