November 30, 1874 is the birthdate of the greatest statesman in history. Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Reagan deemed him so. Just his indomitable leadership in World War II rallying a beleaguered Britain to triumph over Nazi tyranny would alone earn him this unique distinction. But the world is not aware that Churchill was a modern Nostradamus in his prophetic wisdom. [...]
This morning, an entire stretch of Southern Boulevard in the Bronx, New York is to be co-named “La 65 de Infanteria Boulevard” in honor of the Puerto Rican regiment of the United States Army, otherwise known as the “Borinqueneers,” during World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. “Co-naming Southern Blvd. ‘La 65 de Infanteria Blvd.’ is an honorable recognition that the [...]
She stands with outstretched hands and arms to silence the cannons of war. The winged sculpture in Quincy Memorial Park is called “Peace.” She stands in bas-relief at the western edge of the cemetery grounds at 52nd and Broadway in a five-ton limestone element, set in a 300-ton stone and marble World War I monument. Peace has a youthful face, [...]
What was it like to be a U.S. civilian in December 1941? If that’s something you are curious about, then there is no better book to read than Craig Shirley’s December 1941, subtitled “31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World.” Shirley, who was born in 1956, remembers his family being “deeply involved” in discussions about World War II. [...]
For most folks, the abdomen is the part of the body between the chest and the pelvis. For a generation of men who took to the seas during World War II, though, abdomen is also a 5.3-mile long uninhabited chunk of rock sitting somewhere in the middle of Alaska’s Aleutian Island chain, a place called Samalga Island. During the first [...]
The brother of a man who survived an explosion that killed 15 people has won the right to have a plaque commemorating their lives reinstated. John Bumstead was just 16 and working as a volunteer for the Mitcham Home Guard when an enemy landmine was dropped on the former site of the Creameries factory in Commonside East, Mitcham, on April [...]
A plaque will be unveiled later in memory of a US pilot who crashed in Shropshire during World War II. Clifford W Jensen died after losing control of his aircraft during a training flight from Atcham Airfield in June 1944. He was widely praised for piloting his P47 away from a local school and homes before crashing at Lawley Bank. [...]
A fighter pilot has recalled the moment he crash landed in a lake – as his fighter plane was lifted from the water 65 years on. The U.S. Navy led the recovery of the World War II F6F-3 Hellcat from the depths of Lake Michigan, Waukegan, today. The plane – the sixth to be removed from the lake – had [...]
Behind every great man, is an even greater canine – or so would say author Kathleen Kinsolving in her new book about the dogs that supported the great Americans leaders in a time of crisis. Her book, ‘Dogs of War,’ chronicles the camaraderie President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gens. George Patton and Dwight Eisenhower shared with their pets and the [...]
View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. A 4-foot-long practice round for a 14-inch naval gun was found off Sandy Hook, N.J., this week as part of a beach replenishment project in nearby Monmouth Beach, NBC 4 New York has learned. The Army Corps of Engineers said the shell was used for target practice either during or shortly after World War [...]
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