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

  
  The Journalista Chronicle// — 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 ...
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• Dr. Raymond B. Johnson Receives William Crawford Distinguished Service Award

  
  The Resident — 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 ...
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• Video – Part 1: Waking Up at 5,000 ft

  
  AirMaria.com — 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 ...
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• Video – Part 2: Waking Up at 5,000 ft

  
  AirMaria.com — 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 ...
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• Ill Walk Alone

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

  
  App Advice — 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 ...
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• Why war is inevitable

  
  Pragmatic Witness — 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, [...]
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Maximum Advantage in Pictures — Authority: 120
  "Help Raise The Victory Flag." Soviet World War Two Military Propaganda Poster.
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• Indy Transponder 24-NOV-09 0500z

  
  Indy Transponder — 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 ...
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• Book Review: Bill Wallace of China

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — 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 ...
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• LOOSING A KATYN AMONG THE PIGEONS:

  
  BrothersJudd Blog — 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 ...
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• Knit blanket made by WW2 POW still intact

  
  KnitHacker — 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 ...
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• World War II spy photos revealed for the first time

  
  Mirror Images - James Vellacott - Mirror.co.uk — 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, ...
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• Jim Simpson - The Toughest Knitter Alive

  
  Dude Craft — 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 ...
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• The Liberator pistol

  
  The Firearm Blog — 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. ...
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• A Trip To The Museum

  
  The General's Tent — 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 ...
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• Band of Brothers in the Pacific

  
  Akkam's Razor — 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 ...
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• Why the interest in WWII?

  
  Marianne LaCroix — 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 [...]
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• The Rising Tide

  
  Vie de Malchance — 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 ...
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• Kent Circle Christmas Tree Decorating Pics From Thom Falzorano

  
  GoodMorningGloucester — 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
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