WWII
And you thought your hitch sucked…
Interesting article on “We Are The Mighty” about D-Day, and specifically the units who opposed the Allied landings on the beaches. I imagine most of us have the same images, Rommel cruising the front beforehand, steely-eyed Germans atop the slopes dug in modern pillboxes, wielding MG-42 “Hitler’s Buzzsaws” with inexhaustible supplies of ammo. The reality […]
Austrians get creative
Have to tip my hat to the Austrians – Austria is a lovely country, pretty girls, good beer, solid German-style food. Unfortunately, though, it was also the birthplace of Adolph Hitler, who certainly needs no introduction, back in 1889. Not their fault, Hitler Sr. was a civil servant who happened to live there at the […]
Back to the ’40s, last OSS OG’er tabbed
“Let’s go back to the 50’s, when it was hip to be hep to be cool to be popular, to be teenaged and going steady” – NGDB. OK, I lied – we’re headed to the ’40s. Jeff LPH turned me on to the “Jedburgh Teams”, of whom I had never heard. The Jedburgh teams were […]
Sad day. Freedom ain’t free.
Monday, France lost their last remaining D-Day veteran. We are not so far away from doing the same. The last surviving Frenchman to participate in the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944 died Monday aged 100, local authorities said. Leon Gautier was among 177 Frenchmen who participated in the landings on June 6, 1944, which […]
Chinese ship detained for looting WWII shipwrecks
Malaysia has detained a Chinese ship (above) for looting from two WWII shipwrecks in the South China Sea. The ship was detained after illegally anchoring over the wrecks of HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales, sunk a few days after Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Old shipwrecks are targeted by scavengers for their rare […]
And Then There Was One
Sad news – one of the two remaining USS Arizona survivors from the Pearl Harbor attack, Ken Potts, died Friday at the age of 102. His death leaves only one remaining survivor, Lou Conter, 101, who lives in California. Howard Kenton Potts died Friday at the home in Provo, Utah, that he shared with […]
World War II veteran reunites with 1st love in France 75 years after meeting: ‘You never got out of my heart’
I’ll just leave this here, its a few years old now but still a great story: K.T. Robbins, 97, of Mississippi, was visiting Normandy for the 75th anniversary celebrations for D-Day, and he had one wish — to reunite with the girl he’d left in France, but never forgotten. In 1944, Robbins met Jeannine Ganaye in […]
The Road to Pearl Harbor
Imperial Japanese Battle Ensign Welcome back our very own Veritas Omnia Vincit, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes. I for one have missed his annoyingly rational and well written screed. ‘Specially when he’s right. Anyway, he’s back from wherever he went to, and he didn’t come empty handed. Revisionist Historians once again get it wrong. I’ve seen […]
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