I believe this is thought of as a memorial ......... I would like to know more about it if anybody knows !! :) A visit to Marguerre Camp will...
Heres some more ....... :D Over the Top, Trench Coat, Ace, Buddy, Pushing up the Daisies, Red Tape, Zoom, Sniper, Washout, Cootie, Tune Up, In...
Over 100,000 Chinese laborers were used by the British Army to dig trenches on the Western Front ......
The bodies of many soldiers killed in World War I could not be identified. To honor them, the remains of one were brought to the U.S. Capitol to lie...
Reverend John B. DeValles was a man of peace in a time of war. He was known as the, "Angel of the Trenches", for his valiant deeds in caring for the...
Heres a snippet Keith ! :) Late in the war he lost his left hand in battle and returned to command his men brandishing a fearsome hook just prior...
Although not generally known, Albert Goring, the younger brother of Reich Marshal Hermann Goring, was an outspoken anti-Nazi. Arrested several times...
I just found these too .... ! The excavation report published on the Wessex Archaeology website ...... Shooters Hill, Greenwich | Wessex...
We don't get that program John ... but it sounds interesting !! :) I found this about the show ..... ( for others who didn't get it either ! ) ......
I was CMA when I made both statements Kyt !! :madgrin:
Does anybody know anything about what happened to this soldier after he went home ? In 1980, the last Japanese soldier of World War Two, Captain...
Feb 16, 1942. Operation Neuland begins. U-156 shelled oil installations on Aruba and sank three tankers. Dozens more followed. Apr 19. U-130...
Hi Cally .... I read this ... is this true ? :confused: The British K-Class Submarines - K1 collided with K4 K2 caught fire K3 sank for no...
Fort Douaumont at Verdun in France was captured in 1916 by a single German soldier after French General Chretien forgot to pass on orders to defend...
This is an old news article ... but still amazing I think ! :) By The Associated Press Chet Fleming is part of an army of children — a group of...
Lieutenant-General Lesley J. McNair (1883-1944) 39 : Commandant Command & General Staff School 39-44: Commander in Chief Army Ground Force...
I saw this today ... thats why I checked the original speech ....... :confused:
WW2 aircrew always carried the latest copy of a newspaper on their missions - to prove that they had left on a particular date if they were captured...
Alexander Fleming ( or his father - depending which story you read !! ) saved Winston Churchill from drowning when they were both young boys....
Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" Speech To the Congress of the United States: Yesterday, December 7, 1941 -- a date which will live in...
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