Recognizing the sacrifices of women who helped win World War II and pioneered the women’s movement, the women came from all walks of life to fill in on manufacturing jobs left vacant by men drafted to fight for their country. Collectively known as “Rosie the Riveters,” their stories have mostly gone untold and their accomplishments unrecognized. However, at 3 p.m. [...]
The Boston Globe reports: US military history is filled with units whose names not only convey a whiff of combat — 101st Airborne, First Air Cavalry, 14th Field Artillery — but also describe what the unit did on the battlefield. But what is one to make of an outfit with a name like 23d Headquarters Special Troops? That unit, consisting [...]
The daily post reports: THE wreck of a rare American fighter plane which crashed during World War II remains hidden under the sand of a Gwynedd beach. The Lockheed P-38F Lightning was found near Harlech six years ago after being covered by sand for more than 65 years. Its pilot, USAF Lt Robert Elliott, walked away unscathed after the plane’s [...]
slate.com reports: This WWII-era packing list for Army nurses was sent to me by reader Patricia Britton, whose mother, Laura Rodriguez, served from 1944 through 1946. Rodriguez , who was 23 when she enlisted, had worked for less than a year at a hospital in Gallup, N.M. when she entered basic training for army nurses in Texas. She received the [...]
The New York Times reports: The soldiers who landed in Normandy on D-Day were greeted as liberators, but by the time American G.I.’s were headed back home in late 1945, many French citizens viewed them in a very different light. In the port city of Le Havre, the mayor was bombarded with letters from angry residents complaining about drunkenness, jeep [...]
Being in London and driving its streets, you’re simply struck by the city’s deep history. Wars were fought over the course of centuries in Northern Europe. And one of the primary reasons London still exists in such a similar form is because of the way Britain repeatedly defended its land. That’s the premise behind a project taking place off the [...]
By John Cook, GeekWire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is selling some of his abstract art, and buying a historic rocket. The eclectic Seattle billionaire has procured a rare Wernher von Braun-designed V-2 rocket, the first human-made object to fly into outer space. Allen’s Flying Heritage Collection — located at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. — is taking possession of the rocket on Monday. The Mittelwerk [...]
Hooliganism? Police posted this image of Anastasia Polnikova, 23, far left, locked up after she was arrested to warn others against the consequences of copying their stunt. Arrest warrants for the other three have since been issued The Daily Mail reports: Anastasia Polnikova, 23, was locked up after being charged with hooliganism Her three accomplices, two men and a woman, are [...]
Soviet artillerymen fighting under the cover of a smoke screen. Soviet artillerymen are shooting at the German troops boxed in Stalingrad. Soviet tank T-34 destroyed somewhere in Kharkiv. Sumskaya street. Attack planes Il-2 are leaving for a combat mission near Stalingrad. The crew of the Soviet bomber Pe-2 at the airfield. Soviet soldiers sitting at the fire in a [...]
German fighter ace Major Joachim Muncheberg claimed RAAF P-40 Kittyhawk pilot Tom Russell as his 129th kill, over Tunisia on January 22, 1943. The German airman was killed in a dogfight with Spitfires six weeks later, but Mr Russell, who turns 96 in July, has no plans to leave this earth any time soon. The former No. 3 Squadron RAAF [...]
How Hitler’s U-Boats Are Still Attacking UsMay 23, 2013
Colonel Leonard T. Schroeder – 30 Years Service and First Man on Normandy BeachMay 23, 2013
“Useful Enemies”: U.S. admitted not just Nazis after WWII, but their sadistic collaboratorsMay 23, 2013
1900s-1920s: Lucky SwastikasMay 23, 2013
British WWII Spying and Propaganda in U.S. Shown in Secret FilesMay 23, 2013
Intelligence archive: Cross dressing spy who caused a headache for British mastersMay 23, 2013
Built by forced labour, Nazi bunkers being converted into modern homesMay 23, 2013
Intelligence archives: Britain bribed Spain to stay out of WWIIMay 23, 2013
Last two living survivors of WWII sinking of HMS Gloucester return to Plymouth for dedication of memorial stoneMay 23, 2013
Obituaries: Major David Taylor, who has died aged 92, won an MC in 1944 at the Normandy bridgehead.May 23, 2013
Bournemouth WWII air raid 70th anniversary memorial to be unveiledMay 23, 2013
Churchill and Stalin made ‘merry’ until early hoursMay 23, 2013
Reluctant hero’ of Warsaw Ghetto uprising dies at 93: Tributes paid to one of final survivors who took on Nazis in 1943May 23, 2013
Hell’s Angels Veteran flys againMay 23, 2013
Huntington State Office Building Will Be Renamed for Rosie the RivetersMay 22, 2013
‘I never knew people could love an old man so much’: WWII vet, 91, ‘saved from daughter’s eviction’ after $138,000 raised onlineMay 22, 2013
Bomber Command veterans boycotting ‘insulting’ awardMay 22, 2013
Countdown to raising the Dornier commencesMay 22, 2013
When wartime appearances were deceiving by designMay 22, 2013
American fighter still hidden under North Wales beachMay 22, 2013
