Name: Thomas Gantz Cassady Country: United States Rank: Captain Services: French Air Service U.S. Air Service Units: Spa157, Spa163 (FAS) 28th...
First U.S. Naval aviator to achieve the status of Ace (five enemy aircraft downed) Ens. David Ingalls USNR flying a RAF Sopwith Camel downs his...
Reed Landis, who is credited with nine enemy aircraft and one kite balloon, received the bulk of his training and front-line experience with the...
During the first half of 1917, Robert and Leon Morane, and Raymond Saulnier presented their newest fighter aircraft, the Morane Saulnier A-1 to the...
One of the first war crimes committed by the German Wehrmacht (Not the SS or Waffen SS) in World War II took place at and near the Vinkt bridge over...
Flight Lieutenant William B. THOMPSON Date Deceased: October 17, 1995 Age: 81 Service Information Service Number: J26913 Units: Period of Service:...
Captain Hector Macdonald Laws Waller, DSO and Bar (1900 – 1 March 1942) was the captain of the light cruiser HMAS Perth in the Second World War....
I'm afraid you're stuck with me today ...... can't do anything ... go anywhere .... etc etc !! :ballchain: Started with a bit of snow overnight...
July 17 1944 A 7,212-ton Liberty ship, was moored at Port Chicago Naval Base, California, taking on ammunition and high explosives. Just before...
Two Japanese freighters transporting 611 men of an 'Independent Brigade' were heading for New Guinea when in the early evening of the 20th they were...
As activity in the Battle of Britain began to gain a lot of attention in October of 1940, Americans came to the British call to fly Hurricanes and...
Gilbert Ratcliffe Watson was born on May 4 1882 in Kendal Westmorland. SS Nerissa SS NERISSA (April 30, 1941) Canadian 5,583 ton passenger...
I was reading about the I.G. Farben Trial in Nuremberg and from there was reading about the camp next to Auschwitz ..... it's painful reading ( as...
In February, 1941, Italian prisoners-of-war began arriving in South Africa where the Zonderwater Camp had been established in the Transvaal,...
There was a program on the History Channel about this and they talked to some of the children ...... some were adopted by German officers and some...
I'm surprised I would have thought there would have been more than that - in that length of time !! From September 1938 to July 1944 - there...
The bombing of the MINERVA car factory in Antwerp on April 5, 1943, turned out to be one of the major tragedies of World War II. The Erla factory was...
It looks like these sailors were the 2 crewmen who were lost .... Banks Roy Ashby Gurney E. Newlin 10/29/42 A.B. Grand Cayman BWI Age Unknown...
Great optical illusion here :) http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/dragon_illusion/ Annie :)
I found this looking for something else .... thought it maybe of interest ! BWLCH-Y-RHIW FARMHOUSE At 0146 hrs on 26th January 1943, a Wellington...
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