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Today we Remember and Honor Daniel Inouye of Honolulu.
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Daniel Inouye of Honolulu, Hawaii, was a U.S. Army soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions in Italy 80 years ago today on April 21, 1945. He was also a U.S. Senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. During the Japanese attack…
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Today, 80 years ago, the Battle of Iwo Jima took place.
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During World War II, the US Marine Corps (USMC) and US Navy (USN) engaged in a significant battle when they landed on and ultimately took Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The objective of the American invasion, known as Operation Detachment, was to seize the island and its…
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During World War II, when Nazi Germany occupied France in 1940, the Citroën factory was forced to build trucks for the German military.
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But the French weren’t going down without a quiet fight. Instead of explosives or open rebellion, they used something far sneakier: a dipstick. Pierre-Jules Boulanger, the head of Citroën at the time, came up with a clever act of sabotage. He ordered the oil dipsticks in the trucks to be…
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On this day in 1943, Cornelia Fort is tragically killed.
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She is best known as one of the most accomplished female pilots to serve during World War II. Did you know that an American woman was flying the skies during the attack on Pearl Harbor? Her father wouldn’t have liked it. He’d seen the dangers of flight, and he’d hoped…
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THE DAY AFTER… BATTLE of MAGERSFONTEIN – the TRUCE for retrieving dead and wounded… ACCIDENTALLY BROKEN. And the WITHDRAWAL.
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This text from Steve Lunderstedt (KIMBERLEY CALLS…AND RECALLS): “On this day, the 12th December, in 1899, as the sun rose in the sky on the battlefield of Magersfontein, the OFS burghers in the trenches closest to the wounded Scottish soldiers still lying badly wounded after some 24 hours, had heard…
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“Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all…
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Of all the war’s exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There’s no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one’s breast like a nightmare. Trenches look like…
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British Soldier Leonard Thompson experience during the Gallipoli campaign.
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“We set to work to bury people. We pushed them into the sides of the trenches but bits of them kept getting uncovered and sticking out, like people in a badly made bed. Hands were the worst; they would escape from the sand, pointing, begging, even waving. There was one…
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What is Krampus ?
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The Feast of St. Nicholas is celebrated in parts of Europe on 6 December. On the preceding evening of 5 December, Krampus Night or Krampusnacht, the wicked hairy devil appears on the streets. Sometimes accompanying St. Nicholas and sometimes on his own, Krampus visits homes and businesses. The Krampus (German:…
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A HEART WRENCHIG STORY
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Bronx mother accused of hanging her 6-year-old daughter in a closet and beating her before she died due to prolonged abuse has been indicted, prosecutors said Tuesday. Lynija Eason Kumar, 27, was charged with murder and manslaughter after cops were called to the family’s 12th-floor apartment in NYCHA’s Forest Houses…
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In 1976, Shavarsh Karapetyan, an Armenian Olympic Swimmer, had just completed a 12-mile run with his brother when they saw a trolley bus crash into a dam reservoir.
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The trolley bus sank 80 feet offshore at a depth of 33 Feet. Shavarsh immediately dove in and swam to the bus and despite zero visibility, managed to kick in the back window, injuring himself in the process. He proceeded to save twenty people trapped in the bus, one at…