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This is Lyudmila Pavlichenko.
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In June 1941, 24-year-old Lyudmila Pavlichenko was doing her graduation in history at Kiev University when Nazi Germany began its invasion of the Soviet Union. Lyudmila, left University and volunteered for fighting the Nazis where she was requested to join the infantry. The registrar pushed Lyudmila to be a nurse…
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Today we remember a young American Fallen Hero…National Guard Pfc. Sarina Butcher.
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I’ve had the honor to spend time with her family. Sarina wanted to be a NURSE when she got out of the US Army. Butcher, 19, was killed in Afghanistan’s Paktia Province, 11/1/2011, when the vehicle in which she was riding was hit by a roadside bomb. She was the…
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It was the time when the Spanish terrorized the indigenous people of South America.
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After the lost battle of Lagunillas (around 1500), the Spanish mutilated about 150 Mapuche warriors who had lost to them. They chopped off their right hands and cut off a piece of their noses. Because of this, the Mapuche became even more incensed against the Spaniards. Galvarino, a Mapuche chief,…
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Walter D. Faith was born on October 10, 1947.
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On this day lost, but not forgotten. Walter D. Faith was born on October 10, 1947, one of five children – two boys and three girls. His home of record is Sayreville, NJ. As a boy, he was nicknamed “Chipper” by his mother, Dorothy, because he looked just like his…
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If you wouldn’t want your daughter to emulate the woman you’re with, don’t marry her.
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Listen up, Men! If you wouldn’t want your daughter to emulate the woman you’re with, don’t marry her. Why? Because the woman you choose as a wife will shape the future of your family. She’ll influence your children’s values, their mindset, and their understanding of what it means to be…
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This Camera Was Used for Aerial Photos During WWII.
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The Fairchild K-17 aerial camera, used by both the British Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force during WW2, had a 24″ lens and weighed a ridiculous 75 pounds (34kg)! One of the later models of this camera, the Fairchild K-20, was famously used to photograph the nuclear…
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The man’s name on the left was Horace Greasley.
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He was a British POW famous for escaping over 200 times to visit his girlfriend, a local Jewish girl. Why did he keep going back? Loyalty. He returned every time with extra food or other contraband to share with his fellow captives. Greasley spent 5 years as a prisoner of…
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TODAY WE REMEMBER AMERICA’S GREATEST HEROES
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TODAY WE REMEMBER AMERICA’S GREATEST HEROES — World War II veteran Ms. Millie Dunn Veasey, a military and civil rights pioneer, has died — just a month after celebrating her 100th birthday. A Raleigh native and one of six children, she graduated from Washington High School in 1942 and enlisted…
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First World War.
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This photograph from the archives of the League of Nations shows a soldier killed in World War I. The war raged for more than four years, from August 1914 to November 1918, and resulted in the deaths of more than nine million combatants. As many as seven million civilians also…
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Lest We Forget…
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The fighting Irish Lion Lt. Colonel Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne DSO and 3 Bars, 1 SAS Regiment, was a courageous and brilliant special forces soldier, and one of the most outstanding leaders of the Second World War. From the Royal Ulster Rifles, he volunteered for the Commandos and saw action in…