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  • Unsung teen hero who helped end the Second World War honoured

    03/17/2024 11:28:58 AM PDT · by beaversmom · 25 replies
    Telegraph ^ | March 15, 2024 | Telegraph reporters
    A teenage cook whose heroics onboard a warship helped shorten the Second World War has been honoured in his home town after a public vote. The regenerated centre of North Shields, North Tyneside, has been named after Thomas Brown, who was awarded the George Medal for helping to retrieve codebooks from a sinking German U-boat in October 1942. The books were later used to crack the Enigma code by experts at Bletchley Park, enabling the British to decipher Nazi messages. Two naval men died while searching the stricken submarine but Thomas, a 15-year-old civilian who lied about his age to...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: Hershel W Williams ~ November 1, 2010

    10/31/2010 5:11:47 PM PDT · by Kathy in Alaska · 201 replies
    Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | StarCMC
      Our Troops Rock!  Thank you for all you do!   For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.   Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today!     ~ Hall of Heroes ~Hershel W. Williams Info from here.             Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams (born October 2, 1923) is a retired United States Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. Born in Fairmont, West Virginia, on October 2, 1923,...
  • Remembering Medal of Honor Recipient Hershel "Woody" Williams...

    03/06/2024 11:13:51 PM PST · by beaversmom · 11 replies
    During the Battle of Iwo Jima, in the face of powerful enemy resistance, Marine Cpl. Hershel "Woody" Williams succeeded in destroying several heavily-defended machine-gun pillboxes, and was awarded the Medal of Honor. But his service to his country, and his gallantry, did not end there. In this "Sunday Morning" profile that originally aired on May 30, 2021, Williams (who died on June 29 at the age of 98) talked with CBS News national security correspondent David Martin about his efforts for uring the Battle of Iwo Jima, in the face of powerful enemy resistance, Marine Cpl. Hershel "Woody" Williams succeeded...
  • World´s Oldest Woman Resides in Spain

    03/04/2024 9:53:10 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    EuroWeekly News ^ | 04 Mar 2024 | Anna Akopyan
    On March 4, the world´s oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, celebrated her 117th birthday in Catalonia. Morera was born in San Francisco, USA, but returned to Spain with her family at the age of eight, spending the rest of her life in Catalonia. For the past 23 years, she has stayed in the nursing home, Residencia Santa Maria del Tura. “Order, tranquillity, good connection with family and friends, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets, lots of positivity and staying away from toxic people” is what Morera credits her health and longevity to. Morera´s family arrived in Barcelona...
  • Paul Tibbets Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Was Given No Funeral or Gravestone

    02/26/2024 3:55:49 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 65 replies
    War History Online ^ | Feb 25, 2024 | Rosemary Giles
    Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets, better known as the man who piloted the Enola Gay during the bombing of Hiroshima, became a well-known figure in the United States at the end of the Second World War. Despite his fame, Tibbets asked that upon his death he receive no funeral or gravestone. Paul Tibbets started his career as an abdominal surgeon before enlisting in the US Army Air Corps. He initially served for three years, qualifying as a pilot in 1938, and opted to stay on active duty when the US entered the Second World War. While he is best known for...
  • Feb 23, 1945

    02/23/2010 2:26:48 PM PST · by paterfamilias · 12 replies · 370+ views
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  • The US Officially Has A New National Park....The Amache National Historic Site highlights a "painful chapter" of American history.

    02/22/2024 2:57:51 AM PST · by Red Badger · 62 replies
    IFL Science ^ | 21 FEB 2024 | MADDY CHAPMAN
    Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Image credit: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The US officially has a new national park. Amache National Historic Site near Granada, Colorado, has officially joined the likes of Yellowstone and Yosemite, the National Park Service announced last week. Amache – also known as the Granada Relocation Center – has a dark past, having been one of 10 incarceration sites established by the War Relocation Authority during World War II to imprison Japanese Americans. Over 10,000 people, mostly American citizens, were detained at Amache from 1942 to 1945. At its peak, the site housed...
  • D-Day codebreaker claims to possess secret memo signaling end of World War II days before rest of world, and he’s not sharing it

    02/07/2024 5:51:07 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 12 replies
    NY Post ^ | 02/07/2024 | Richard Pollina
    A World War II Veteran who claimed he was the first Allied soldier to receive a message that the Nazis had surrendered vowed to keep the historical document in his family despite intense interest from museums. Bernard Morgan — who turns 100 on Wednesday — was working as a codebreaker for the Royal Air Force around May 6, 1945, when he received a world-changing message through his Typex machine. “The German War is now over. At Rheims last night the instrument of surrender was signed which in effect is a surrender of all personnel of the German forces – all...
  • Navy to name new destroyer for Omaha WWII war hero

    01/20/2024 11:45:20 AM PST · by Mean Daddy · 38 replies
    Omaha World Herald ^ | Jan. 20, 2024 | Steve Liewer
    The Navy is about to name a ship in honor of Omaha’s World War II “Hero of the Solomons.” Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced last week that one of the next new Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG 142) will be named for Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Jackson French, who was born in Arkansas in 1919 but was raised by his sister in Omaha after his parents died. The Navy traditionally names its destroyers after Navy and Marine Corps heroes. Other ships in the Arleigh Burke class have been named for Revolutionary War Capt. John Paul Jones and Civil War...
  • How FDR Emasculated the Black Press in World War II

    01/19/2024 10:55:41 AM PST · by Spoonerite · 20 replies
    Reason ^ | December 27, 2023 | David T. Beito
    While federal authorities did not bring legal charges against the black press for the balance of the war, that doesn't mean they shifted to a hands-off approach. Instead, they ratcheted up both intense monitoring and informal pressure. In the first half of 1942, FBI agents visited leading black newspapers that had carried critical stories about the federal government. Moreover, postal inspectors admonished two leading papers that the "benefits of citizenship" carried an obligation not to "'play up' isolated and rare instances in such a fashion as to obstruct recruiting and in other ways hamper the war effort."
  • Battle of Midway: Repairing the Yorktown After the Battle of the Coral Sea

    01/18/2024 8:08:54 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 80 replies
    Defense Media Network ^ | May 26, 2012 | Dwight Jon Zimmerman
    Dated May 25 and delivered by plane while the Yorktown was about a hundred miles from Oahu, the report that Nimitz read was sobering...One day ahead of schedule, on May 27, the Yorktown limped into Pearl Harbor. The next morning, after Nimitz had cut orders voiding the safety rule of spending a day purging her tanks of stored aviation fuel, the Yorktown eased into Drydock Number One. The caissons closed behind her, and pumps began draining out the water. With at least a foot of water still remaining in the drydock, men in waders gathered to inspect the hull. One...
  • Incredible footage shows massive dump of Second World War munitions discovered in 3,000ft of water off the coast of LA

    01/07/2024 5:01:22 PM PST · by Libloather · 20 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 1/07/24 | Dominic Yeatman
    World War II depth charges, smoke floats and munition cases are among the latest eerie relics to be discovered on a deep-water survey ten miles off the coast of LA. High–resolution cameras found a massive dumping ground of munitions from the Pacific War which were tossed overboard warships before they could endanger the ports they were returning to. A team from the University of California's San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography found the objects up to 3,000ft down between LA and Catalina Island, in the same area where thousands of barrels of the outlawed pesticide DDT were discovered three years...
  • 1946: William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw

    01/03/2024 10:42:18 AM PST · by CheshireTheCat · 19 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | January 3rd, 2009 | Headsman
    On this date in 1946, fascist William Joyce, famous by the nickname “Lord Haw-Haw” for his English-language Nazi propaganda broadcasts, was hanged at Wandsworth Prison for treason. As a pugilistic young anti-Semite with the unusual credential of being a Unionist Irish Catholic, Joyce had been a moving spirit in the interwar British fascist party. (Since audio broadcasts would define Joyce’s life, it seems appropriate to refer the reader for a fuller biography to this recent Oxford biography podcast.) But because time loves a good laugh, it had the guy haranguing his countrymen for insufficient patriotism marked out for the last...
  • Navy Says Wreck Found Off Japan is Legendary Sub USS Wahoo

    11/01/2006 4:29:41 PM PST · by Excuse_My_Bellicosity · 89 replies · 4,208+ views
    Navy Newsstand ^ | 10/31/2006 7:01:00 PM | Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs
    PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) -- Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet declared Oct. 31 that the sunken submarine recently discovered by divers in the Western Pacific is, indeed, the World War II submarine USS Wahoo (SS 238). "After reviewing the records and information, we are certain USS Wahoo has been located," said Adm. Gary Roughead, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander. “We are grateful for the support of the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park, and appreciate greatly the underwater video footage of the submarine provided by our Russian navy colleagues, which allowed us to make this determination. This brings closure to the...
  • 16th-Century Painting Returned to Heir of Dutch Collector Persecuted by Nazis

    12/29/2023 4:03:38 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 1 replies
    ARTnews ^ | December 29, 2023 | Angellica Villa
    A painting dated from the 16th century depicting the biblical figures of Adam and Eve, looted from the collection of Dutch-Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker during World War II, has been returned to Goudstikker’s only living heir. The scene, attributed to Dutch artist Cornelis van Haarlem, was returned after being offered for donation by a private collector to Musée Rolin, a museum in Autun, a city in central-eastern France. According to New York law firm Kaye Spiegler, which facilitated the painting’s return, museum officials raised flags internally over the painting’s ownership record after uncovering a label with Goudstikker’s surname on...
  • From Celluloid to Cell Phone. (Hedy Lamarr, 1940s actress, designed a jam-proof torpedo system)

    04/21/2003 9:41:59 PM PDT · by Diddley · 13 replies · 342+ views
    ABC News Tech ^ | Apr 21, 2003 | Kris Kosach,
    She was considered one of the most beautiful women ever to grace the silver screen, but Hedy Lamarr never wanted to be known as just a pretty face. . . . . . She is credited for patenting a technology that is used every day. Hers is a story that is something right out of … well … Hollywood. A Kept Woman Finds Freedom Upon the insistence of her parents, Hedy wed a prominent Austrian munitions tycoon by the name of Fritz Mandl. Mandl took his teenage bride everywhere, including prominent business meetings with his biggest client, the Nazi Party....
  • "Nuts!" - The Story behind the Famous American Reply to the German Surrender Ultimatum

    12/22/2023 10:27:28 AM PST · by cld51860 · 9 replies
    Military History Now ^ | 15 September 2020 | Gary Stern
    79th Anniversary of the best response to a demand to surrender demand... ever.
  • Arkansas World War II soldier killed in combat returns home after remains found

    12/17/2023 9:07:16 PM PST · by Kartographer · 13 replies
    KATV ^ | 12/15/2023 | Desmond Nugent
    The remains of an Arkansas World War II soldier are finally home. The US Army Air Force veteran traveled 170 miles before receiving a hero's welcome. Roller-McNutt Funeral Home brought home 2nd Lt. Kenyon Brindley was escorted by the Army from the Memphis Airport to Conway. Lt. Brindley served in the 703rd Bombardment Squadron, 445th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force in the European Theater.
  • "Lovely weather for killing Germans": Today Marks the Beginning, 79 Years Ago, of the Greatest Battle in History Involving U.S. Troops

    12/16/2023 6:03:07 PM PST · by Rummyfan · 23 replies
    No Pasaran Blogspot ^ | 16 Dec 2023 | No Pasaran
    Today marks the beginning of the largest battle that America n soldiers ever fought in, as well as, writes Antony Beevor, the greatest battle of World War II in western Europe. When I was a kid in Brussels, my elderly teacher was from the town of Bastogne, and had lived as a little girl through the encirclement of the town during the freezing Christmas with the troops of General "Nuts!" McAuliffe to whom the inhabitants handed out their sheets to serve as winter camouflage. Madame Cop loved my mother and often invited my parents to her home for dinner and...
  • A World War 2 Soldier Was Found Frozen in Ice! | Secrets In the Ice [8:54]

    12/13/2023 11:05:15 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 21 replies
    YouTube ^ | April 20, 2023 | Science Channel
    In 2005, a group of ice climbers stumbled upon a frozen body buried in the ice. The body wore military clothes, making experts wonder if the soldier was on a secret mission at his demise.A World War 2 Soldier Was Found Frozen in Ice! | Secrets In the Ice | 8:54Science Channel | 4.64M subscribers | 3,249,007 views | April 20, 2023