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WWII uncovered: International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Honouring Holocaust Survivor and French Actor/Singer Robert Clary
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Please take a moment to join us at WWII uncovered in remembering Robert Clary, Holocaust Survivor and French actor most notably known for his role as Corporal LeBeau in the popular CBS sitcom Hogan’s Heroes. Robert passed away on November 16, 2022 in his Los Angeles California home as reported…
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Honoring the life and service to our country of US Army World War II Veteran, Private First Class ARVIN DOUGLAS WEBB, who died in the service of his country 79 years ago.
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Son of Amos Jackson and Nannie Lorene-Webb. Two siblings, Robert Frank, and Doris Madiline. Attended Tenaha HS. On June 30, 1942, six months following the United States entry into World War II, Arvin registered for the military draft in Center, Texas, the county seat of Shelby. His registration card noted…
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We remember..Sergeant First Class James “JR” R. Stright18 February 1980 – 23 October 2009
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Sergeant First Class James “JR” R. Stright died in the early morning hours of 23 October 2009. He was a crewmember aboard an MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter when it crashed off the coast of Virginia during a night training mission on 22 October 2009. SFC Stright was born on 18…
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Today We Remember And Honor John Robert Fox Of Cincinnati, Ohio
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John Robert Fox of Cincinnati, Ohio, a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on December 26, 1944, near Sommocolonia, Italy. Fox graduated from Wilberforce University with a commission as a second lieutenant in 1940. On December 26, 1944, he…
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“Warfare in the industrial age requires a careful balance of mass and quality.
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A single perfect tank cannot offer the same combat power as ten adequate but imperfect tanks. Most American tankers would have preferred to be sitting on a more powerful tank like the Panther, but no commander would have been content to substituted his many Shermans for a much smaller number…
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General Vasily Chuikov
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In April 1944, members of the 62nd Stalingrad Army, part of the 8th Guards Army led by General Vasily Chuikov, marched triumphantly through the streets of Odessa, their faces hardened by years of brutal combat. The city, once occupied by Nazi forces, had been liberated by the Soviet Red Army…
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Yakov Dzhugashvili, Joseph Stalin’s first son.
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He shot himself because of his father’s harshness towards him but survived. After this, Stalin reportedly said, “He can’t even shoot straight.” In 1941, during World War II, Yakov was captured while fighting the Germans. Realising it was Stalin’s son, Adolf Hitler then made an offer to Stalin that he…
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Ernest Hemingway once wrote: “The hardest lesson I’ve had to learn as an adult is the relentless need to keep going, no matter how shattered I feel inside.”
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This truth is both raw and universal. Life doesn’t pause when our hearts are heavy, our minds are fractured, or our spirits feel like they’re unraveling. It keeps moving—unrelenting, unapologetic—demanding that we move with it. There’s no time to stop, no pause for repair, no moment of stillness where we…
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On this day in 1969, a hero’s family receives the Medal of Honor on his behalf.
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Father Vincent Capodanno was a Navy chaplain who made the ultimate sacrifice as he ministered to his Marines in Vietnam. Father Capodanno was declared a “Servant of God” by the Catholic Church in 2006, and he is being considered for sainthood. Capodanno was no ordinary military chaplain. In fact, he…
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Alan Seeger.
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Alan Seeger (22 June 1888 – 4 July 1916) was an American war poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in the French Foreign Legion. I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling…