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• Walnut Creek, CA Fighter Plane Crash, May 1945

  
  GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods - Events That Touched Our Ancestors' Lives — Authority: 143
  ELY PILOT DIES IN PLANE CRASH. Second Lt. NICK MOMCILONICH of Ely was killed Wednesday when the twin-engine fighter plane he was piloting crashed south of Walnut Creek, Calif.  read more »
  14 hours ago

• Maywood, NE (near) Bomber Crash, Apr 1945

  
  GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods - Events That Touched Our Ancestors' Lives — Authority: 143
  NEBRASKAN DIES IN PLANE CRASH.  read more »
  15 hours ago

• Norman, OK Plane Crash, May 1945

  
  GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods - Events That Touched Our Ancestors' Lives — Authority: 143
  FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR IS KILLED IN CRASH.  read more »
  17 hours ago

• Pleasant Dale, NE Training Plane Crash, May 1945

  
  GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods - Events That Touched Our Ancestors' Lives — Authority: 143
  TRAINING PLANE CRASHES AT LINCOLN AIR FIELD.  read more »
  21 hours ago

• Winfield, KS (near) Plane Crashes, May 1945

  
  GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods - Events That Touched Our Ancestors' Lives — Authority: 143
  TWO MISSING C.A.P. PILOTS KILLED WHEN PLANE CRASHES INTO RIVER.  read more »
  21 hours ago

• For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 5

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 806
  “I was just the paint for the palettes of Ford and Hawks.” – John Wayne – John Wayne was still young in 1944, only thirty-eight years old. And yet the major elements of his inimitable style were hardening into place. Perhaps no other actor in history has been so cognizant of using his body to express grand ...
  21 hours ago

• Colon, NE Training Plane Crash, June 1945

  
  GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods - Events That Touched Our Ancestors' Lives — Authority: 143
  TWO FLIERS MEET DEATH IN CRASH.  read more »
  22 hours ago

• Commonwealth War Graves St Clement’s Church Skegness

  
  Official Skegness History Website — Authority: 419
  NameRankServiceRegimentDate Of DeathAgeGrave/Memorial Ref. ABLITT , W Private2156Suffolk Regiment24/04/1916UnknownGrave ALSOP, SAMUEL HAYWOOD, S H Sergeant ( Pilot )1006349Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve12/10/194119Plot 35. Grave 16. ...
  1 day ago

• Who are those Boy Scouts in 1943?

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 499
  A posed photograph:  Three Boy Scouts, from at least two different units, holding a poster Scouts were distributing about international cooperation in World War II.  They are saluting, and behind them rises the dome of the U.S. Capitol on a brilliantly sunny day. Caption from the U.S. Senate Historical Office: ...
  2 days ago

• Operation Judgement Gives Japan Pearl of Wisdom

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 123
  The Battle of Taranto is one of the Second World War’s more obscure engagements.  Maybe that’s because it happened at night, or because it lasted only a few hours.  But as we’ll soon see, it was very important for a couple of reasons. Taranto itself might be familiar to readers of Today’s History Lesson ...
  3 days ago

• Trilogy by Marguerite Duras (James’s book 33, 2009)

  
  26 books — Authority: 122
  The three novellas collected in this volume are very different, but each is fascinating in its own way. Least successful – indeed least comprehensible – in my opinion is the last of the stories The Afternoon of M. Andesmas , although that still has its pleasures. Trilogy Sonia Pitt-Rivers (Translator). ...
  3 days ago

• Waterloo, IA Drowning, May 1945

  
  GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods - Events That Touched Our Ancestors' Lives — Authority: 143
  DEATH BY DROWNING  read more »
  4 days ago

• Mount Hood Erupts!!

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 123
  The mighty battleship HMS Hood was felled in 1941 in spectacular (and catastrophic) fashion.  Engaged in a fight with the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen , her aft ammunition magazine was pierced by gunfire from the Bismarck .  The Hood exploded in a conflagration that split her in two, sunk her in minutes with ...
  4 days ago

• Mexico Set by Len Deighton (Ian’s book 14, 2009)

  
  26 books — Authority: 122
  There are more spoilers below. Go and read the books first if you’re going to, I’ll ruin it for you otherwise. Mexico Set (Panther Books) Len Deighton. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 1985, Paperback, 384 pages, £27.95 Continuing from Berlin Match, Bernard Samson’s wife Fiona has ...
  4 days ago

• Finland Calls Soviet Bluff

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 123
  For nearly a month, direct negotiations had persisted.  Back-and-forth communications?…more than 18 months.  The Soviet Union had, since April of 1938, been interested in territory that belonged to Finland, its neighbor to the west.  And Finland had (more or less) politely refused. The Nazi-Soviet Pact came ...
  5 days ago

• Alamogordo, NM Bomber Crashes, Apr 1945

  
  GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods - Events That Touched Our Ancestors' Lives — Authority: 143
  TWELVE KILLED IN CRASH OF BOMBER.  read more »
  5 days ago

• French Fleet Burned Badly by Torch

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 123
  As General Mark Clark was preparing to depart from his secret rendevous in North Africa , Vichy commander General Charles Mast quietly said to him, “The French navy is not with us.  The army and the air force are.”   So in the early morning hours of November 8, 1942, as Allied forces made ready to disembark ...
  6 days ago

• For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 4

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 806
  [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] “Close-ups, affectionate or noble, are held at leisure; long shots are sustained long after their narrative role has been performed. A marginal figure is suddenly dwelt on, lovingly enlarged to fill the center of the ...
  1 week ago

• The Great Gate of Kiev

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 123
  When Operation Citadel was abandoned by Adolf Hitler in July of 1943, it left in its wake the scattered bit of destroyed aircraft , the hulks of thousands of tanks, the burned out remains of more artillery pieces, and the still, quiet corpses of even more Russian and German soldiers. While not marking the ...
  1 week ago

• British Begin Westward Push in North Africa

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 123
  The last two months had been particularly unkind to the Afrika Korps.  Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s gamble at Alma el Halfa had not paid off, and early advances merely gave way to a retreat that, ten days later, found them back where they started…with a smaller force.  And that was the good news.  Two weeks ...
  1 week ago

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