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NOTE: Today, April 6th, 2008 marks the anniversary of the German bombing campaign against Serbia, which commenced on this day in 1941, drawing Yugoslavia into the war. He had previously assured everyone that he had no intentions of "harming" Yugoslavia or Serbia. On March 27, 1941, the Serbs rejected adherence to the Tri-Partite Pact, which would have allied them with the Axis forces led by Nazi Germany. Hitler responded accordingly. The following is an excerpt from the 56th day of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial that took place in 1946. The topic that day was the German invasion of Yugoslavia....

Edward Dutch Gaulrapp, Pearl Harbor survivor, shares memories of attack Blair Martin, Contributing Writer U.S. Navy photo by MC2 Michael A. Lantron - Pearl Harbor survivor Chief Cook Edward Gaulrapp (Navy Ret.), views the USS Arizona Memorial during a visit to historic Ford Island. Assigned to the Pearl Harbor-based, Perch-class submarine USS Pompano (SS 181), Gaulrapp was in his barracks when the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor began. It has taken former Navy Chief Petty Officer Edward "Dutch" Gaulrapp more than 60 years to come back to Pearl Harbor to commemorate the 66th anniversary of the Dec. 7,...

ISRAEL - PEACE - SURVIVAL, NOT GENOCIDE! In the beginning...Israel has always faced genocide, from the moment the Islamo Arab fascist leader, the infamous [later on exposed as Hitler's buddy] Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini has called, incited, led to "kill the Jews" in the 1920s. The Mufti, that prior to inciting to "kill the Yahud [Jews]" & leading massacres such as Hebron 1929 and the Farhud in 1941, has participated in the massacres and genocide of Christians, the Armenian Genocide that is [http://Armenian-Genocide.org], where 1.5 Million Christians were brutally murdered. An ally of the Nazi "Fuhrer": Adolph Hitler,...

HISTORY - Time line [some] Important dates in radical ISLAM VS WORLD 1263 - 1328 The 'Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism' Who is the True Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism? His name is Ibn Taymiyyah, or Taq ad-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah, and he lived from 1263 to 1328. His name by birth was Ahmad ibn Abdul-Halim ibn Abdas-Salaam. This individual could be considered as the real godfather of fundamentalism. Maududi borrowed extensively from Taymiyyah's writings. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/index.php? id=1194248__________________1347 [The Bahmani sultans & genocide on Indians]The Muslim conquests, down to the 16th century, were for the Hindus a pure struggle of life and death....

To be a "good" Muslim! Part I http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1726241/posts Part II http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1727912/posts Part III http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1728361/posts Dehumaize victims of Islamic terror, especially Israeli men, women & children as "tanks". Never apologize for the continuing exposed (Like Muhammad Aldura, Reuters "images", Jenin "numbers" & added bodies) long tradition of lying, faking, inventing hoaxes, faking images, etc. but rather be already busy with preparing the next one. Islamic violence and bloodshed is always ahead of West's "reprisal", in other words, Bin Laden, Muhammad Atta, etc. have massacred Americans on 9/11/2001 was because the US will eventually go into Afghanistan afterwards, Islamists almost succeeded with...

The government of Iraq is secretly holding a Baathist cabal of military officers it claims attempted a coup against Prime Minister al-Maliki. The plotters were rounded up July 5 with the help of American military authorities after the Iraqi government's security warning center sent word to Mr. Maliki, who was in Kuwait on his first official visit as head of state, two highly placed Iraqi sources said. The prime minister quickly canceled a scheduled trip to Amman, Jordan, and returned to Baghdad to attend to the matter. At the time, Mr. Maliki's staff told reporters that the prime minister was...

The Class of 1941.... (Touching story of soldiers in WWII) By Chuck O'Mahoney Crafton PA High School class of 1941 There were no other cars in the lot behind the borough building when I pulled in and parked. The digital clock on my dashboard glowed 2:43. I sat for a long moment, then got out of the car, hit the lock button on the key chain, and walked around the side of the building. My breath made silvery ghosts that hung in the air. When I got to the front of the building I was looking into a single floodlight...

The Class of 1941.... (Touching story of soldiers in WWII) By Chuck O'Mahoney Crafton PA High School class of 1941 There were no other cars in the lot behind the borough building when I pulled in and parked. The digital clock on my dashboard glowed 2:43. I sat for a long moment, then got out of the car, hit the lock button on the key chain, and walked around the side of the building. My breath made silvery ghosts that hung in the air. When I got to the front of the building I was looking into a single floodlight...

When I think of organizations that have worked long and hard to undermine the religious heritage of this great nation of ours – especially in the minds of our children – few can match the records of the National Education Association and the American Civil Liberties Union. Truth be told, their records are so bad that if the Second Coming were to occur in a public classroom today, the former would insist that a cadre of psychologists swarm in on the community to undo the damage to children, teachers and family before the school could open again, while the latter...

Did Christmas conspiracy begin way back in 1941? 64-year-old MGM/Fox Theatres short offered secular holiday greeting Tim Cuprisin E-MAIL | ARCHIVE The seasonal wishes to Americans in uniform come from one of Hollywood's big names: "We want to send this message to all of them, and their loved ones, and all the liberty-loving people of the world. We want to wish them a very happy - and a free - holiday." It's not Susan Sarandon or Warren Beatty or Rob Reiner. It's Lewis Stone. Lewis Stone? Stone was once a big Hollywood name, best known as Judge James K. Hardy,...

On December 7, future U.S. President George H.W. Bush was a 17-year-old student and captain of the baseball team at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. "I remember it well," he says. "We had just left church and started to walk across campus when someone shouted out, 'Pearl Harbor's been bombed.'" On his 18th birthday, the following June, Bush signed up to become a Naval aviator. He completed flight school and earned his commission a few days before his 19th birthday making him the youngest aviator in the Navy at that time.

MOSCOW — An unidentified Japanese who spied for the Soviet Union inside the Japanese government notified the Soviet leadership in 1941 about Tokyo's policy of planning to start a war against the United States, a confidential Soviet intelligence document shows. The report by the spy, codenamed "economist," was submitted to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Foreign Minister Viachislav Molotov on Sept 9, 1941, by Lavrenty Beria, who was the chief of the Soviet secret police. Whether Japan would start war against the United States or against the Soviet Union was a primary concern for Moscow, which was said to have...

Last Updated: Monday, 25 April, 2005, 17:03 GMT 18:03 UK Balkan 'Auschwitz' haunts Croatia Survivors of a World War II death camp have been mourning the victims of Croatia's Nazi puppet regime. As the BBC's Nick Hawton and Marko Kovac report, war crimes committed long before the atrocities of the 1990s still haunt Croatia as it seeks EU membership. The atrocities at Jasenovac shocked even the Nazis In the vast open field, on the banks of the Sava River, the survivors came to pay their respects. Sixty years ago, this was the scene of some of the worst atrocities of...

On the surface there would seem to be little to unite the Aryan racialists of the neo-Nazi movement with the terrorists of radical Islam. To the neo-Nazis, Muslims are almost all members of ``inferior`` races; and to the Islamic terrorists, the neo-Nazis are almost without exception either atheists or members of fringe quasi-Christian sects. But the reality is that there has been close cooperation between Muslim extremists and Fascists ever since the founding of the Nazi movement in the 1920`s. For all of their differences, Muslim extremists and Nazis have always been united by a common group of beliefs and...

This is the story of a Christmas miracle, a snowfall that couldn't be, and a cat named Tuffy, who truly was. In the waning hours of Dec. 23, 1941, Richard Wood, then age 9, was fast asleep. Not far above him, a four-engine bomber with 19 men aboard was silently gliding through the icy air, heading for an emergency landing at what was then called Davis-Monthan Field. "I assume I didn't hear it because no motors were going," says Wood, who also soundly slept through the ensuing crash - right through the roof of a house less than two blocks...

December 7th, 1941 -Pearl Harbor Remembrance! ============================================================ Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto planned the Pearl Harbor attack. Two things inspired Yamamoto's Pearl Harbor idea: a prophetic book and a historic attack. The book was The Great Pacific War, written in 1925 by Hector Bywater, a British naval authority. It was a realistic account of a clash between the United States and Japan that begins with the Japanese destruction of the U.S. fleet and proceeds to a Japanese attack on Guam and the Philippines. When Britain's Royal Air Force successfully attacked the Italian fleet at Taranto on November 11th, 1940, Yamamoto was...

Pearl Harbor Attacks Interrupted Many Lives Courtesy of Carol W. Kimball A popular poster designed by Allen Sandburg in 1942 to commemorate the attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941. Tuesday will be the 63rd anniversary of the Japanese attack that killed approximately 2,400 Americans and led the United States into World War II. By CAROL W. KIMBALLDay Staff ColumnistPublished on 12/6/2004"Some world-shaking events stay forever in your mind. You can remember what you were doing when you first heard the news — like 9/11, for example, or the day Kennedy was shot. Or the circumstances in your life when...

<p>Granted, there is upheaval in the world and there are battles where a great deal is at stake -- life itself. All the more precious, then, the minor skirmishes on the home front that mean a great deal in a small way and remind us of how lucky we are to feel innocent hatreds, from summer to summer, at the ballpark.</p>

Lest we Forget...December 7, 1941A day that will live in infamy...   USS West Virginia in fire in Pearl Harbor Shortly before 8 AM on December 7, 1941, the Japanese Navy, employing the largest naval attack force ever assembled, launched an unprovoked, sneak attack on the US Pacific Fleet, that lay at rest at Pearl Harbor and on surrounding military bases.  Within short order, 5 of the 8 battleships docked on "Battleship Row" were either sunk or sinking and the rest were severely damaged.  Several other smaller ships and most of Hawaii's combat aircraft were damaged or destroyed, as well. ...

CLICK TO SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Thursday, March 28, 2002 FILE PHOTO / MAY 2001 The USS Hoga, involved in the Pearl Harbor attack, now sits rusting in San Francisco. Navy offers key WWII tugboat to isles A plan to preserve the USS Hoga must be devised by June 13 By Burl Burlingamebburlingame@starbulletin.com The U.S. Navy has given Hawaii until mid-June to approve a plan for preserving the Pearl Harbor attack veteran USS Hoga, otherwise the tugboat will go to other bidders in Arkansas or Florida or be scrapped. Museum officials and historians met yesterday at the USS Bowfin submarine...