http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ww2/ en-us Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:10:48 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2098598/posts The last remaining survivor of the sinking of WWII battle cruiser HMS Hood in May 1941 has died at the age of 85, his naval association has said. BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2098598/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:10:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087189/posts IWO JIMA, Japan — The tunnels of Iwo Jima snake deep beneath the volcanic rock and soil, their entrances camouflaged by a dense tangle of vines and tall grasses. In their stifling heat, Tsuruji Akikusa suffered months of hunger and thirst. The bodies of dead comrades lay around him. His closest buddy blew himself up with a grenade rather than surrender. Finally, Akikusa was the only one left alive in his cave. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087189/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:08:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086989/posts Austrian authorities say what initially appeared to be a small earthquake which rattled Vienna turned out to be the explosion of a large Second World War bomb. Investigators think the bomb weighed up to 500kg (half a ton). It lay buried for decades in the garden of a home in the Austrian capital, and no one knew it was there. When it exploded, officials thought the tremor was caused by a minor earthquake which had somehow set off the bomb. But experts at the scene on Saturday said there was no quake. The bomb left a crater when it exploded... Daily Express http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086989/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:55:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086666/posts The well-known WII museum of Normandy, France, authorized within its walls a conference organized by the extremists who pretend 911 was an inside job. Held on September 16, 2008, the conference features several commentators, from the one attributing the 911 attacks to the neocons to the one saying it was the jews. The "Memorial de Caen" was built to commemorate the millions of Allies who landed in France in 1944 to liberate the country. Memorial de Caen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086666/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:14:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085585/posts Nathan G. Gordon, a Navy pilot who received the Medal of Honor for rescuing other aviators in World War II, and who later became Arkansas's longest-serving lieutenant governor, died Sept. 8 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock. He was 92 and had pneumonia and other ailments. Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085585/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:48:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2074702/posts Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, calling it a case of history repeating itself, insisted that his country was provoked into the war in Georgia by “the aggressive actions of Georgia and their US enablers.” “Just as Premier Stalin was forced to defend the motherland by invading Poland and executing the instigators of their war of aggression, we were forced to intervene in Georgia,” Putin asserted. “We are surrounded by the enemies of our progressive politics. Our survival requires that we be ever vigilant lest socialism fall victim to fascist aggression.” The White House called Putin's remarks “an amazing rewrite of... AZCONSERVATIVE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2074702/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:33:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074274/posts Hiroshima, Japan (AHN) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became the most senior U.S. official on Tuesday to pay tribute to victims of the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima during World War II. Pelosi, in Japan for a two-day meeting of parliament speakers from Group of Eight (G8) nations, visited the Hiroshima memorial along with other delegates. She later toured a nearby museum where a survivor, former museum director Akihiro Takahash, gave a personal account of the tragedy. Pelosi, who is second in line for the U.S. presidency, makes her visit just a month after Japan marks the 63rd anniversary... All Headline News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074274/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 05:03:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/2072837/posts Remembering the Past. 1945 Sep 1, Americans received word of Japan’s formal surrender that ended World War II. Because of the time difference, it was Sept. 2 in Tokyo Bay, where the ceremony took place. (AP, 9/1/97) 1945 Sep 2, The Japanese surrender delegation boarded the USS Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay to formally sign documents of surrender, ending World War II. (WSJ, 8/31/95, p.A-10)(AP, 9/2/97)(HN, 9/2/98) Timelines Of History http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/2072837/posts#comment Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:03:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069786/posts Wednesday morning, August 27, between 11 am and 1:30 pm EST or 9 am and 11:30 am mountain time, I'll be chairing a New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force event in Denver at the Colorado History Museum. The keynotes are Senator JOHN KERRY (D-MA), Obama National Security Adviser GREG CRAIG, Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School Dean ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, former Congressman and Obama Adviser MEL LEVINE, former German Foreign Minister JOSCHKA FISCHER, and Aspen Institute President (and former CNN Chairman and CEO and TIME Managing Editor) Walter Isaacson. Our panel will be former Israeli negotiator and New America Foundation Senior Fellow... The Washington Note http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069786/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:11:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065985/posts The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is 2nd Lt. Howard C. Enoch Jr., US Army Air Forces, of Marion, KY. He will be buried on September 22 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. Representatives from the Army met with Enoch's next-of-kin to explain the recovery and identification process and to coordinate internment with military honors on behalf of the Secretary of the Army. On March 19,... Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065985/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:46:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065675/posts Remains of Polish soldiers found in Belarus 21.08.2008 The remains of Polish soldiers who fought the Nazis and were killed by the Soviets in September 1939, have been found in Kobryn, Belarus. After the Nazi invasion of Poland at the beginning of September, Kobryn was an important outpost for Polish defences in its eastern territories. On the 17th and 18th September 1939, Polish forces fought against the Nazi invaders, only to take up arms against the Soviet aggressor soon after. Andrzej Przewoźnik, secretary of the Rada Ochrona PamiÄ™ci Walk i MÄ™czeÅ„stwa, a council protecting the memory of PolandÂ’s fallen troops,... polskieradio.pl http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065675/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:20:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065532/posts The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the turbulent 1960s, turning fugitive when a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally exploded in a New York townhouse. Prior to that, Ayers and his cohorts succeeded in bombing the Pentagon. Ayers and Dohrn remain unrepentant for their terrorist past. * * * This much we know from the public record, but a large cache of documents housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065532/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:50:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2056114/posts Three Nazi bunkers on a beach have been uncovered by  violent storms off the Danish  coast, providing a store of material  for history buffs and military  archaeologists.   The bunkers were found in  practically the same condition as they were  on the day the last Nazi soldiers left them, down to the tobacco in one trooper‘s pipe and a half-finished bottle of  schnapps. (edit) They were located by two nine-year-old boys on holiday with their parents, who then informed the authorities. Archaeologists were able to carefully force a way, and were astounded at what they found.'What's so fantastic is... The Daily Mail (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2056114/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:48:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055088/posts Poland remembers the Warsaw Rising Created: 01.08.2008 08:20 Today marks the 64th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Rising of 1944, the biggest operation organised and executed by a partisan organisation in WWII. In the Uprising, lasting 63 days, 18,000 insurgents were killed and 25,000 wounded. Losses among the civilians amounted to 180,000 people. Much of the capital was razed to the ground and left in ruins. The battle began on August 1, 1944, as part of a nation-wide rebellion, Operation Tempest. and was intended to last for only a few days until the Soviet Army reached the city... thenews.pl http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055088/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 21:36:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054504/posts The exhibition THE CITY OF PHOENIX - WAR*SAW EVERYTHING is a non-profit undertaking in order to present the war and post-war history of Warsaw, it's destruction and reconstruction The exhibition THE CITY OF PHOENIX - WAR*SAW EVERYTHING is a collection of 28 photomontages, where photos from the Warsaw Uprising have been morphed with modern day photos of the exact same places. http://miastofeniksa.pl/lang-en/o-wystawie.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054504/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:37:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054313/posts THE HAGUE (AFP) — Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stood before the UN war crimes court Thursday to face genocide charges, in his first public appearance since his arrest after nearly 13 years on the run. Shorn of the beard and long hair he had used as a disguise until his capture on July 21, Karadzic was again recognisable as the man who became one of the most reviled figures in the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s. Wearing a dark jacket and tie, Karazdic appeared before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to hear the 11... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054313/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:40:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050391/posts On July 21, 1944 American forces landed on the coral strewn beaches of Guam against fierce Japanese resistance. It was a long awaited and much prayed for day for the suffering Chomorran peoples, who had been brutally repressed by the Japanese occupation forces. It was also poignant due to Guam being the first US territory lost to the Japanese during the dark days of December 1941 to be taken back. The Japanese were known for brutal treatment of conquered peoples, but there was special brutality for the Chamorrans who were American citizens. As many as a dozen Guamanians were beheaded... The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050391/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:45:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044538/posts Parliament pays tribute to victims of 1943 massacre 11.07.2008 The Polish Parliament has marked with a minute of silence the 65th anniversary of the massacre of ethnic Poles in Volhynia during World War II. An estimated 30,000 to 60,000 Poles, including women, children and elderly people, were murdered in an act of ethnic cleansing conducted by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The attacks started in November 1942, culminating in a massacre of Poles in three counties on 11 July 1943. polskieradio.pl http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044538/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:43:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043595/posts The daughter of a Second World War RAF pilot who reprimanded a teenager who she accused of vandalising a war memorial has been convicted of assault (edit)But Mrs Lake was arrested after giving a boy, whom she believed to be the ringleader, a talking-to and a 'cuff round the ear'.She tackled him after she saw at least one youth riding a BMX bike through freshly-laid flower beds.Magistrates heard that when she grabbed his shirt collar, he said: 'That's assault'. (edit) 'I lost my temper in frustration after two years of trying to get something done and immediately the police... The Daily Mail (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043595/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:28:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041273/posts RPG game about Warsaw Risisng 05.07.2008 It was published by Bully Pulpit Games, in the US and designed by Jason Morningstar. It proved a huge success in America, though has not found its way to Poland yet. ‘Grey Ranks is a game for three to five players’, write the publishers, ‘that puts you in the shoes of child soldiers during the Warsaw Uprising. The game is designed to be played over three sessions and includes a scene structure, with each scene corresponding to a specific date in 1944. As the game progresses, success becomes increasingly difficult and the player is... polskieradio.pl http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041273/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 00:03:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039238/posts General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the leader of Poland's wartime government in exile, died 65 years ago this month when his plane plunged into the sea off Gibraltar. A British inquiry in 1943 found that the crash was caused by the plane's controls jamming. But rumours persist of a plot to kill Gen Sikorski, whose defence of the Polish national cause threatened to derail Britain's relationship with the Soviet Union. Now Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski, and his prime minister, Donald Tusk, have demanded that Gen Sikorski's body be exhumed from its tomb in Wawel Cathedral in Krakow, the traditional burial place of... telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039238/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:35:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037731/posts The Indian general who commanded the military campaign that led to the creation of Bangladesh has died at the age of 94. Sam Manekshaw, whose career spanned four decades, was one of India's best known and well-respected soldiers. Under the British, he was decorated for gallantry in World War II for his part fighting the Japanese army in Burma. After India gained independence, he became chief of the army in 1969 and in 1973 was made field marshal. 'The brave' Under his command, India went to war with Pakistan in 1971, supporting Bengali nationalists in what was then East Pakistan.... BBC UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037731/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:37:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2031162/posts http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=KBwwFsKTJGs various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2031162/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:52:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027041/posts Today is the 64th anniversary of D-Day. Two items for you to commemorate. 1) First, read Ronald Reagan’s unforgettable Pointe du Hoc speech on the 40th anniversary. 2) Watch this brilliant video produced last year by The Combat Report on how today’s media would have covered the 1944 Normandy invasion. Michelle Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027041/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 14:06:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026790/posts To have participated in Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II, now that’s something. To have waded ashore through a deathly brew of bullets, blood and floating bodies, well, that’s a feat of a totally different stripe. But to have been a Navy frogman, the first to touch beach the morning of June 6, 1944, that’s the stuff legends are made of. A forerunner to the Navy special operations force known as the SEALs, Naval Combat Demolition Units cleared the way for the initial invasion force on that historic day. "There was stuff blowing up all... Stars and Stripes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026790/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 00:22:25 GMT