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  • Is the Letter Real? 95 Year Harold Estes Old Tells Obama to Shape up//


    The Journalista Chronicle//Authority Authority: 107
    Here is an email letter circulating the Internet. The validity is still to be determined but the point is still clear. I have a few thoughts on this: If Mr. Estes didn’t write the letter, then why didn’t someone take credit by using their own name, I mean, obviously someone wrote it; and on the flip side of ...
    3 hours ago
  • Dr. Raymond B. Johnson Receives William Crawford Distinguished Service Award


    The ResidentAuthority Authority: 127
    by Alexis Ann [set_id= 72157622750299625 ] (Click on photo for ID’s) Visit us on Flickr for more photos! The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut presents the William Crawford Distinguished Service Award annually to an outstanding member of our community who exemplifies the spirit of service to one’s ...
    9 hours ago
  • Video – Part 1: Waking Up at 5,000 ft


    AirMaria.comAuthority Authority: 510
    Short Series #45 – On his mother’s birthday he is shot down, on September 8th he rises. ( 11min) >>> Play Ave Maria! Ray Noury, a World War II Army Air Corps Sergeant Veteran, recalls his amazing survival story. At an altitude of 15,000 ft, he was knocked unconscious when blown ...
    10 hours ago
  • Video – Part 2: Waking Up at 5,000 ft


    AirMaria.comAuthority Authority: 510
    Short Series #44 – This stone crucifix was erected at the site 1n 1990 after the end of Russian occupation. Photo by Paul Comire ( 11min) >>> Play Ave Maria! Ray Noury, a World War II Army Air Corps Sergeant Veteran, visits the Czech Republic. Since 1944 the people of Nepomuk and Pradlo ...
    10 hours ago
  • Ill Walk Alone


    snaggletoothie of the Loyal OppositionAuthority Authority: 481
    I just heard a version of this presented by Tokyo Rose in Flags of Our Fathers.
    1 day ago
  • Review: Coast Defense – Plus Video


    App AdviceAuthority Authority: 155
    Overview Cost Defense is a World War II themed castle defense game. Instead of flicking enemies you fire upon them, and keep them from attacking your bunker. The enemies land on the beach and progress from left to right. You have eight types of weapons at your disposal that you purchase using the gold you earn from ...
    1 day ago
  • Why war is inevitable


    Pragmatic WitnessAuthority Authority: 100
    by John KaminskiThe secret formula that runs the world and guarantees tragedyIt always struck me as odd that just before all wars start, the people who have been asked to wage these wars say they don’t want to fight, and insist they want peace. And as a result, all the politicians say they’re for peace, [...]
    1 day ago
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    Maximum Advantage in PicturesAuthority Authority: 120
    "Help Raise The Victory Flag." Soviet World War Two Military Propaganda Poster.
    1 day ago
  • Indy Transponder 24-NOV-09 0500z


    Indy TransponderAuthority Authority: 142
    Celebrate the Wright brothers during Family Day from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories Commemorate the 106th anniversary of the worlds first heavier-than-air flight by learning about the Wright brothers and their incredible invention during Family Day from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Dec. 12 at the National Museum ...
    1 day ago
  • Book Review: Bill Wallace of China


    Kevin Stilley Dot ComAuthority Authority: 142
    Bill Wallace of China , by Jesse C. Fletcher In a chapel sermon at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Dr. Paige Patterson recommended reading “Bill Wallace of China.” Most people know of William Wallace of Scotland through Mel Gibson’s movie “Braveheart,” but relatively few have heard of William ...
    2 days ago
  • LOOSING A KATYN AMONG THE PIGEONS:


    BrothersJudd BlogAuthority Authority: 545
    Poles protest US Stalin memorial plan (thenews.pl, 23.11.2009) The Polish community in the United States is outraged by a plan to honour Josef Stalin by placing his bust on a pedestal at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia. According to William McIntosh, the director of the Bradford museum, which ...
    2 days ago
  • Knit blanket made by WW2 POW still intact


    KnitHackerAuthority Authority: 119
    Jim Simpson with his rug The former prisoner of war, who spent more than 19 months in Germany’s World War II prison camps, not only survived interrogations and torture but managed to knit arguably Australia’s most valuable war artefact, outside a museum. Jim’s rug is a perfectly preserved 1.83m x 1.9m ...
    2 days ago
  • World War II spy photos revealed for the first time


    Mirror Images - James Vellacott - Mirror.co.ukAuthority Authority: 121
    These astonishing spy photos of bombing, ruined cities and Nazi prison camps from World War Two can now be seen by the public for the first time. The stark images taken on secret surveillance flights have been declassified 60 years after they were taken and are going on display. The picture above is of, ...
    2 days ago
  • Jim Simpson - The Toughest Knitter Alive


    Dude CraftAuthority Authority: 632
    Betsy Greer over at Craftivism has a great article on Jim Simpson, an Australian POW who spent 19 months in a German prison camp during WWII. Jim spent some of his time knitting this incredible rug out of worn out, deloused jumpers and Red Cross wool, using straightened pot handles as knitting needles. Its an ...
    2 days ago
  • The Liberator pistol


    The Firearm BlogAuthority Authority: 562
    Designed to be as inexpensive as possible, assembled from mostly stamped sheet-metal parts, the Liberator was a single shot pistol chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge the US military was using for standard handguns and submachine guns. It was so cheap that each one set the US government back only $2.40 in 1942 money. ...
    2 days ago
  • A Trip To The Museum


    The General's TentAuthority Authority: 127
    I took a quick out to the Canadian National War Museum. I wanted to see if I could see some Canadian WWII battledress in person. There were three samples, two under glass and one in the open. None were in anything approaching good light. I did manage to get a shot of the one in the open with my flash. If I had been ...
    2 days ago
  • Band of Brothers in the Pacific


    Akkam's RazorAuthority Authority: 127
    Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are currently working on the Pacific Theaters version of Band of Brothers for HBO , titled "the Pacific" [ IMDB ].  Somehow, this has been known and on the internet since the early summer. Please upgrade your browser I had previously written about Band of Brothers both here ...
    3 days ago
  • Why the interest in WWII?


    Marianne LaCroixAuthority Authority: 140
    I was working on interview questions today and one of the questions asked what influenced my choice to write about World War II pertaining to my novella Warrior Lover. It got me thinking, what was it that influenced my interest in that time period?I grew up with loads of family who lived through WWII. My [...]
    3 days ago
  • The Rising Tide


    Vie de MalchanceAuthority Authority: 502
    I’m about halfway into the first of three books that Jeff Shaara has written about WWII. I got hooked on his Civil War novels and this one doesn’t disappoint. Obviously, The Rising Tide begins with the conquest of North Africa and the subjugation of the idiot French and Italians, not to mention the ...
    3 days ago
  • Kent Circle Christmas Tree Decorating Pics From Thom Falzorano


    GoodMorningGloucesterAuthority Authority: 522
    Click The Picture To View The Slide Show click the picture to view the slide show Posted in gloucester, Good eggs Tagged: Christmas Tree, Decorating, Kent Circle, Slide Show, Thom Falzorano, WWII Memorial
    3 days ago

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