Many of the memories Bare spoke of on a recent bright and sunny winter day in his Springfield home involved the best working years of his life — time spent with Howard Noonan in the family atmosphere of the Kissell Co. as it existed when Bare arrived in Springfield in 1958.
A retired hospital chaplain, Ray Deabel speaks at 80 or so funerals a year, many for fellow military veterans. That is an honor. But sometimes only a handful of mourners show up. That is a shame. At the service for one World War II veteran a few years ago, only the chaplain and the funeral home director were there to say thank you and goodbye.
What makes the most fantastic and undocumented war-launching and war-prolonging lies credible are differences and prejudices, against others and in favor of our own. Without religious bigotry, racism, and patriotic jingoism, wars would be harder to sell.
While on tour of duty on Okinawa with USAF in 1952 I almost wound up standing for general courts-martial for having caused “unprovoked” grievous bodily harm to another airman. He, after about an hour of haranguing me to fight stated “at least the Germans knew how to handle Jewish whores like your mother!” This guy [...]
A MICHIGAN factory worker used as the unwitting model for the wartime Rosie the Riveter poster, whose inspirational “We Can Do It!” message became an icon of the feminist movement, has died…
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser (12/29, Perez) reports, “Robert Ebert, a former Honolulu Star-Bulletin photographer who was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for his famed photo of a man hugging his son just back from World War II, has died. He was 98. Ebert died Wednesday after being taken to the Queen’s Medical Center because [...]
The King’s Speech is Oscar bound with incredible performances by Colin Firth as King George VI along with Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter, as the queen mother. This is movie making at its best and Director Tom Hooper weaves this historic event of a King and his speech therapist into a flawlessly acted work [...]
The attack on Pearl Harbor (called the Hawaii Operation or Operation Z by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and the Battle of Pearl Harbor by some Americans) was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from influencing the war that the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia, against Britain and the Netherlands, as well as the U.S. in the Philippines. The base was attacked by Japanese aircraft (a total of 353, in two waves) launched from six aircraft carriers.
Much of what our country and our lives are like today was shaped by the events that occurred 69 years ago during a quiet Sunday morning on Dec. 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. At 7:55 a.m., the first wave of 183 Japanese planes raced across the mountains north of Pearl Harbor to begin bombing, [...]
Mr Gregorie Von Bruhn Mr Gregorie Von Bruhn and VT correspondent Jane Rosenstein VT correspondent Gennady Sevastyanov at the ruins of Atlantic ridge bunkers. Bulon Sur Mer, France VT correspondent Gennady Sevastyanov at the ruins of Atlantic ridge bunkers. Bulon Sur Mer, France The son of a Third Reich veteran told us about his father’s [...]
One of the first destroyers to escape from the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was the USS Dale. It evaded machine gun fire, bombs and torpedoes without suffering one casualty. In Michael Keith Olson’s book Tales From a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, stories of the Pearl Harbor attack and WW II are told as seen from the eyes of the USS Dale crew. Reading their personal accounts is like sitting next to them on their front porch on a summer evening. Just as simple and just as wonderful. But war is un-wonderful, and one wonders in listening to their stories how these men survived such horrors and still came out gentle and kind.
Japan’s foreign minister apologized Monday for the suffering of a group of former World War II prisoners of war visiting from the United States and said they were treated inhumanely. The six POWs, their relatives and the daughters of two men who died are the first group of U.S. POWs to visit Japan with government sponsorship, though groups from other countries have been invited previously.
Allen Dale June, one of the 29 original Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, has died. He was 91. June died of natural causes Wednesday night at a veterans hospital in Prescott, his wife, Virginia, told The Associated Press on Thursday. Allen Dale June, one of the last three members of the Original 29 Navajo Code Talkers, dies at age 91.His health had been failing since earlier this year when he was hospitalized for a urinary tract infection and kidney failure because he wasn’t drinking enough water, his wife said. He was hospitalized again two months ago after visiting family on the Navajo Nation and was transferred from a Flagstaff hospital to Prescott, where he was under round-the-clock care.
- Eight sailors conducted the ONLY GROUND COMBAT OPERATION on the Japanese “homeland” of World War II – Forwarded by Veterans Today’s reader. In 1973 an Italian submarine named Enrique Tazzoli was sold for a paltry $100,000 as scrap metal. The submarine, given to the Italian Navy in 1954 was actually an incredible veteran of [...]
When visiting the Washington D.C. area, please consider seeing the National D-Day Memorial Foundation in Bedford, Virginia. Imagine a place where the lessons and legacy of D-Day are remembered and preserved, a place where veterans of all ages are welcomed and honored, a place where visitors discover and recognize the worthy service of those who answer [...]
Edith Shain in April displays a photo of her famous V-J Day kiss with a sailor at the end of World War II in Tiems Square, New York. Shain, who claimed to be the nurse photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt, died Sunday in Los Angeles.
By Randy Ark I couldn’t wait for the new HBO mini-series The Pacific to begin. After having viewed Band of Brothers, the HBO mini-series that followed Easy Company of the 506th PIR through WWII in Europe, I was more than ready for the Pacific theater. While the scenery and the combat footage were graphically and [...]
William Douglas Lansford’s account of Basilone’s life is written by another Iwo Jima Marine who served with Basilone and survived the war to write about it. (SALEM, OR) – ‘Manila John’ Basilone’s name resonates with Marines, but except for some who live in his hometown of Raritan, New Jersey, it’s probably not familiar to many [...]
Linenthal, a professor at Indiana University and editor of the Journal of American History, says when histories accepted as reflecting accurately on events are revised, “The urge is to lash out at those doing it (the revision) as somehow being subversive.” When historians ask new questions about evidence or come across new evidence, or look at evidence in a different way, they are looked upon as “revisionists,” he writes, adding: “To my mind, any historian who is not intellectually senile is a revisionist.”
America First: the Anti-War Movement, Charles Lindbergh and the Second World War, 1940-1941 By David Gordon Democratic nations seldom go to war willingly. The natural instinct of voters is to preserve peace whenever possible. Aided by a free press, there is also never a shortage of those ready to suggest alternatives to conflict. Yet [...]
Pam Murphy, the widow of Audie Murphy, was involved in the Sepulveda VA hospital and care center over the course of 35 years, treating every veteran who visited the facility as if they were a VIP. Pam Murphy died last week at the age of 90
Netanyahu compares Iran to Nazi Germany. Israel used the solemn occasion of Monday’s annual Holocaust memorial day to call on the world to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and to draw new attention to the plight of the dwindling number of survivors.
65th ANNIVERSARY of the WORLD WAR II VICTORY U.S. VETERANS NEEDED TV CENTER, Russia - The National Russian Broadcasting Company «TV Center» is making a series of news reports dedicated to the 65th Anniversary of the World War II Victory in Europe. They are looking for American veterans who will be participating in the VE-Day parade at [...]
They flew non-combat missions, but 38 were killed in service They flew planes during World War II but weren’t considered “real” military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home. These aviators — all women — [...]
The words were from a letter that Mrs. Alleta Sullivan received from President Roosevelt, when it was confirmed that all five of her sons were missing in action after the sinking of the USS Juneau during the Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942. While most aboard the Juneau perished, a few remained alive including the eldest Sullivan brother George, who would later die at sea. The last remaining survivors lived through of a horrific ordeal of exhaustion, heat, sharks, hunger and thirst.
Email story of a WW II 101st Airborne trooper resonates with our need for heroes. The story is fictional but the story of those who jumped into Normandy and fought their way through France is definitely not. (PHILADELPHIA) – The email story of “Shifty” Powers shows the power of the internet and our search for [...]
The Washington Post reports today in a piece entitled Pilot considered the only ace Tuskegee Airman dies that Lt. Colonel Lee A. Archer, USAF (Ret.) died today at age ninety in New York. He is generally considered to be the only Black ace fighter pilot of World War II. Rest in peace, Colonel. CWO3 Tom [...]
Sixty-five years after the Germans captured Norman D. Fellman of Prescott during World War II, the U.S. Army recognized him Wednesday as one of 350 U.S. soldiers who were held as slaves inside Nazi Germany at the Berga an der Elster camp.
The Associated Press is reporting in a story entitled Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100 that a bona fide hero of World War II has died. This woman’s heroism needs no commentary from me. May she rest in peace. And may we all recite the last words of one who is about [...]
Marine veteran remembers visit by Colonel Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, Medal of Honor and Navy Cross recipient, the Marine Corps’ highest ranking Ace from WW II. (Salem, OR) – It’s not often that you get to ‘stand inspection’ for a Medal of Honor winner. The word was passed that Colonel Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, WW II Medal [...]
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