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Steven Terjeson | August 27, 2009
Audio Clip: 1939-08-27 CBS HV Kaltenborn Reports On The Eve Of War in Europe
Today in WWII History
World War II History for August 27
1939 – Nazi Germany demanded the Polish corridor and Danzig.
1941 – Japanese prime minister requests a summit meeting with FDR in hopes of preventing their campaign in China from escalating into a world [...]
Steven Terjeson | June 26, 2009
Bittersweet Reunion, Part 2 of 2
MacArthur embraces the freed Wainwright, 30 Aug 1945
On 20 Aug 1945, as Russian troops liberated a Japanese prisoners of war camp in Manchuria in northeastern China, Jonathan Wainwright found himself a free man for the first time in more than three years. The Japanese treated the defeated general of [...]
Steven Terjeson | May 21, 2009
From BBC News, a video showing life in a British WWII Prisoner of War Camp.
Rare footage showing life in British prisoner of war camp is going on display at a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester.
There were over 1000 prisoner of war camps in Britain from World War II, but few [...]
Steven Terjeson | April 8, 2009
Today in WWII History
World War II History for April 8
8 Apr 1939 – Italy invaded Albania.
8 Apr 1945 – Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged at Flossenburg. American troops liberated the POW camp nine days later.
8 Apr 1949 – The Soviets opened a rail link to the besieged city of Leningrad. [...]
Steven Terjeson | November 11, 2008
WW II vet held in Nazi slave camp breaks silence: ‘Let it be known’
By Wayne Drash, Thelma Gutierrez and Sara Weisfeldt
CNN 11/11/08
LOMA LINDA, California (CNN) — Anthony Acevedo thumbs through the worn, yellowed pages of his diary emblazoned with the words “A Wartime Log” on its cover. It’s a catalog of deaths and atrocities he [...]
Steven Terjeson | August 8, 2008
WW2 ‘Great Escape’ mastermind dies at 92
2008/08/08
Eric Dowling, who helped plan the mass wartime breakout from a German prison camp that inspired the movie The Great Escape, has died at 92.
Peter Dowling said his father died at a nursing home near Bristol in southwest England on July 21, a day before his 93rd birthday. The [...]
Steven Terjeson | August 6, 2008
Normandy to Berlin: Walking on hallowed ground
By Les Young – Published: August 06, 2008 10:28 am
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 — In the wee hours of June 6, 1944 (Day-D, World War II) the long awaited Allied invasion of France began. Para-troopers and glider forces began landing soon after midnight, the Americans behind the western beaches, [...]
Steven Terjeson | June 25, 2008
US is Carrying Out Search Operation in Arunachal Pradesh to Trace out Its WW II Remains
25 June, 2008 08:50:00 – Dinesh Singh – Rawat, India (ABC Live)
Guwahati: The United States is carring out its searching operation in North Eastern state; Arunachal Pradesh to trace out the remains of it’s died pilots during World War II.
Henry [...]
Steven Terjeson | March 18, 2008
US team in India to trace missing WW II airmen
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS)
A US military team will be in India Wednesday to discuss a joint operation with India to search for US airmen who went missing in plane crashes over Indian territory during World War II. Rear Admiral Donna L. Crisp, commander of [...]
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