Presidents of opposing sides give their respective Thanksgiving addresses to their citizens, each thanking the same God and calling on him for Victory. Similar, yet also different. Hope you enjoy.
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As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, I thought it might be interesting to see what President Truman had to say for Thanksgiving 1945. Barely two months after the Japanese surrender and the end of the war, with troops still returning home and many
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Below is a link to a free 3 episode documentary/interview with Adolph Galland about his experiences in WW2. Each episode is approx 35 minutes in length. He discusses such things as standing up to Goering and surviving. The failure of senior Luftwaffe
" In August 1944, as the Battle of Normandy raged, a secret meeting was held in Strasbourg by a cabal of senior SS officers and German industrialists. The meeting was ordered by Heinrich Himmler himself - its purpose - none other than to save German
The Eagles of Bastogne The Untold Story of the Heroic Defense of a City Under Siege
Our good friends at Casemate Publishers have supplied us with three (3) copies of The Eagles of Bastogne: The Untold Story of the Heroic Defense of a City Under Sie
From the website,"This commemorative march in remembrance of the Battle of Arnhem 1944 is held every year on the first Saturday of September in Oosterbeek. The Airborne March is a tribute to the more than 1,700 British and Polish soldiers who lost th
At first I thought it was kinda crazy that Hitler's private collection of books would be brought back to America. But with lots of personal annotation, I can see why the Govt would want to study them. Be sure to watch the video to the end to learn ab
I think members of this site may enjoy watching this interview with Henry Sledge, Eugene "Sledgehammer" Sledge's son. He recounts the battle of Peleliu with antedotes his father told him and pictures of the battlefield as it looked in his travels the
If you're a fan of WWII aviation you probably know who Major Bong is, and of the competition among American Pilots to be the highest scoring ace. Richard was pulled from front line action while in the lead with 40 kills. No American pilot topped his
In this 25 minute video British Historian Mark Felton discusses information he uncovered about King George VI helping his German Relatives (some were active Nazi's fighting against British forces) at the end of WWII. He delves into the British Royal
I know this sounds like something out of a crazy Hollywood movie, but it's true. On Jan. 4-5, 1866, along the Texas-Mexico border, around 125 volunteers made up of the 118th U.S. Colored Infantry and ex-Confederate soldiers crossed the Rio Grande and
Mel is another famous actor who also served in WWII, and he was in the thick of it. In this interview Mel discusses the Army sending him to Virginia Military Institute and later Ft. Sill, Oklahoma before sending him to combat in Germany. It seems the
