The man who flew the final combat mission of the most destructive war in history will be in Washington, DC on Memorial Day to honor his fallen comrades and help raise public awareness about an annual day honoring the World War II generation. Jerry Yellin, of Fairfield, IA, was flying a P51 fighter plane over Japan on August 14, 1945, [...]
A veteran from the Japanese military of World War II spoke out about his experiences during the war, talking about the injustices that the comfort women, or those who were forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military, had to endure in the brothels catering to soldiers. He came out with this statement after all the controversy over Osaka Mayor [...]
Telegraph: British military chiefs thought Hitler was more use alive than dead in the later stages of the Second World War because of the “blunders” he was making. The view emerged as the Government discussed bombing a rumoured hiding place of the Nazi leader two weeks after the launch of the D-Day landings. MI6 had also been asked to draw [...]
A longtime jeweler from Brighton received a special gift just weeks before Memorial Day. A stranger from halfway around the world helped reunite a soldier with a piece of his past. “My family comes from a long line of watchmakers and jewelers.” You could says that Irving Mann was born to make other people’s moments special.”I guess it was [...]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has some fresh news from World War II: 13 Merchant Marine ships sunk by the German navy in the Battle of the Atlantic threaten to release oil from their watery graves. The finding comes in an assessment presented to the Coast Guard that analyzed 20,000 shipwrecks in US waters, and identified 36 as posing [...]
Leonard T. Schroeder Early Years Born in Maryland on July 16, 1918, Leonard T. Schroeder would enter the United States Army in 1941 and serve the next 30 years – retiring as Colonel. Throughout his military history, Schroeder would be remembered for a number of achievements, but his most infamous moment was when he made history as the first man [...]
Lost count of the sordid episodes in America’s past? In Useful Enemies: John Demjanjuk and America’s Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals (Delphinium Books, 2013), Richard Rashke chronicles one that few of us know much about. Many Americans have heard of Operation Paperclip, the program run by the Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor to the CIA). After World War II, the [...]
“Following a brief surge of popularity in Western culture, the swastika from the 1930s became strongly associated with its iconic usage by Nazi Germany, and it has hence become stigmatized and to some extent taboo in the Western world; it has notably been outlawed in Germany if used as a symbol of Nazism.” From our chums over at: www.retronaut.com
Britain’s World War II spying on U.S. isolationist groups and its propaganda efforts against them were revealed in secret archives published for the first time today. The declassified documents at the National Archives in London show how Winston Churchill was sent a report on a 1940 private phone call between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and [...]
Telegraph: As one of Britain’s top spies in the Second World War, being arrested in Spain dressed as a woman caused a major headache for his political masters. Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke, a key figure in British intelligence in the Middle East, was detained in Madrid after being seen “in a main street dressed, down to a brassiere, as a [...]
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