WWII
Student dresses as “Nazi”, Principal suspended
A Chicago-area principal at Jones College Prep was suspended over his handling of a student’s wear of a “Nazi” uniform on Halloween. This is a surprisingly knotty one – not as easy to judge as you may think. The prinicipal, Joseph Powers, tried to take the middle road… and thereby proved the adage that […]
Valor Friday
This week will be part one of a two-parter. Robin Olds’ story is just too big for a single article. In US Air Force history there are several well-known names. For example, the World War I American ace of aces, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who was one of the most decorated Americans during the war. In […]
Divine Wind on this day…
Kamikaze, or officially Shinpu Tokubetsu Kogekitai, “Divine Wind Special Attack Unit” was named after the typhoon that destroyed a Mongol fleet in the thirteenth century, saving Japan from invasion. The Special Attack Forces were suicide units formed in the last year of World War II as a last-ditch effort to defend Japan. These units used […]
Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, dead at 96
The longest reigning British monarch in history, Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain has died at age 96. Many are probably aware, but she was a veteran of World War II. During that conflict, while she was a princess, she served as an officer in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. She was trained as a driver […]
Hate to run into it: but a clever idea
Smart buggers… seems some of the “air vents” on at least one of the Normandy bunkers were a bit sneaky. While you would think an air vent a great place to drop a grenade – clear out the inside, and the walls would protect you, right? – some of the vents were piped back toward […]
Nazi warships scuttled at WWII end exposed by drought
At the end of WWII with defeat imminent, Germany decided to scuttle much of their Black Sea fleet. Dozens of warships went down at the mount of the Danube river. Some sank in shallow enough water to be permanent navigation obstacles, and now 20 are exposed by the drought which has been gripping southern Europe. […]
WWII Navy ship found more than 4 miles down, deepest wreck
The destroyer escort Samuel B. Roberts, sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 (corrected from 1943 7/28/22), was found in over 22,600 feet of water last week by Caladan Oceanic, the same folks who found the world’s previous record-depth wreck, the USS Johnston, last year. The wreck of the USS Samuel B. Roberts, […]
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