Amazing ......... ! Japan has certified a man aged 93 as the only known survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both hit by atomic bombs towards the...
Can anybody tell me please anything about this flyer and what he did in WW2 ? Name: Geoffrey Hilton "Beery" Bowman Country: England Rank: Major...
MCEWEN, CLIFFORD MACKAY (1896– 1967) Air Vice-Marshal Clifford McEwen was born at Griswold, Manitoba on July 2, 1896, and raised in Moose Jaw....
Name: Alexander MacDonald Shook Country: Canada Rank: Major Service: Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force Units: 4 (RNAS) 204 (RAF) Victories: 12...
I've been going through my pictures and NARA pictures and came across this one which was one of the first I decided I wanted to keep ... it touched...
Dr Leonard Darby was the Senior Medical Officer of HMAS Sydney during her engagement with SMS Emden off the Cocos Islands on November 9th 1914. After...
In 1919 the Australian Government issued a booklet entitled "How the Germans Treated Australian Prisoners of War". It was published "By Authority"...
Admiral John ('Jackie') Fisher is generally regarded as one of Britain's greatest admirals. John Fisher was astute enough to support most technical...
Late in 1941, three months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of young men left San Francisco in several Dutch ships bound for the Far East....
This is old news I'm afraid but I had been reading about Belgian flyers and came across this .... I'd like to think that it was serendipity ..... RIP...
Give thanks for the invention of the tank - it saved countless lives... http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/ww1/WW1.html
Enjoy ! :clapping: 'Human Red Arrows' perform displays at 13,000ft - Telegraph
Check this out ...... BBC NEWS | Business | Top AIG bosses 'to repay bonuses'
The oldest son of Lev Kamenev - Russian air force officer A.L. Kamenev was executed on July 15 1939 at the age of 33 - did he serve in WW2 at all ?...
That Mein Kampf was ghost-written by Jesuit priest ? I've never heard that before ..... or is that just one of those myths that have been around a...
One of the finest fighter pilots the Marine Corps ever produced also had one of the shortest combat careers. Lt. Col. Harold W. Bauer, aka "The...
Willy Coppens died on 21 December 1986 aged 94 .... but not a lot is known about his later life ... apart from him being a military attache and a...
Name: Willy Omer François Jean Coppens de Houthulst Country: Belgium Rank: Major Service: Belgian Air Service Escadrilles: 1ère, 4me, 6me, 9me...
Charles Lindbergh was the son of a liberal Republican congressman from Minnesota. He was a mechanical engineering student, left to enter flight...
If you'd like to add a quote that is particulaly poignant or meaningful to you .... then please do ! One of the enemy soldiers removed his water...
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