A prophetic warning...
In March 1933, Germany was in turmoil, as the Reichstag building had burned, & the nazis were spreading anti-Communist hysteria. Hitler & his buddies crafted the "Enabling Act", which gave...
View ArticleThe little guys have it!
While I was in Tokyo with the Navy, I saw tthat, at 6'2" I was taller than almost any Japanese I saw there. When I met some of their ww2 survivors, I was far taller & heavier than any of them. (The...
View ArticleGerman-American Military People
While we've fought two great wars against Germany, beginning 1917, many American military leaders & fighters were of German descent. the number is amazing! Here are a few of them : The leader of...
View ArticleGerman-American Military People
While we've fought two great wars against Germany, beginning 1917, many American military leaders & fighters were of German descent. the number is amazing! Here are a few of them :
View ArticleHow we took out Yamamoto...
In WW2, IJN Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the architect & chief planner of the Pearl Harbor attack, & of the 1st 6 months of Japanese success everywhere they turned. His plans were carried out...
View ArticleWhy Hiroshima/Nagasaki were nuked...
There was never any question with Truman about using the bomb. After all, several BILLION $$ had been invested in developing it, andneither Congress nor the public woulda forgiven him if he'd forbidden...
View ArticleDid FDR deliberately allow the Pearl Harbor attack ?
This is a question that has raged for many years, and its answer has come forth only after the deaths of virtually every govt. & military official in power when the attack occurred. That answer is:...
View ArticleWhen Slavery would have ended
There are many who say that slavery was on its way out in the mid 19th Century - Even if the South had won the WoSI. Do you agree with that - How else would the Direction of the two countries have...
View ArticleMainland USA Bombed during ww2 !
On Sept. 9, 1942, Japanese Warrant Flying Officer Nobuo Fujita (1911-1997), & Petty Officer Okuda Shoji,(KIA, 1944)flew a Yokosuka E 14 Y seaplane, (USA class nickname "Glen") from the submarine I...
View ArticleUSS "England", DE 635...
In May, 1944, the USS England(Named for John England, a sailor killed at Pearl Harbor), a destroyer escort converted to anti-submarine duties, sank six Japanese subbies in 12 days, a record which may...
View ArticleCivilization of “Ancient Greece” and “Ancient Rome”
Many people believe that the flood completely destroyed the first civilization, so much so that there are no traces left of it. But if this were so, then the level of European culture would forever...
View ArticleIs WV a legal State
West VA became a State during the WSI - as it was considered the Restored Government of Virginia If so, then after the War- it should have been re-united with VA?
View ArticleTop Fold Podcast: All the News That WOULD Have Been
A very interesting new podcast. Only four episodes so far and only around 10 minutes long. "Welcome to Top Fold, a podcast about “All the news that would have been” with your host Luke Heffley. Here at...
View ArticleThe move that won the battle of Gettysburg...
When Fed & CSA forces first encountered each other at Gettysburg, neither side knew how close their two armies were to each other. However, soon as the CSAs realized they were facing regulars, not...
View ArticleIF the Union allowed the CSA to form w/o a war.....
From Quorm: Do you agree with Bill? Bill Esker · Updated June 29 Studied at University of Akron... IF the Union allowed the CSA to form w/o a war.....
View ArticleAnother look at the War for Southern Independence
From the Abbeville Review Ten Reasons for the War
View ArticleWest Virginia admitted to Union as a Slave-Free State
Not exactly! Many think that WV split from VA over slavery. But what is the true history
View ArticleSec of State - from Jefferson to Present
There have been 70 Sec of State - here are their bios
View ArticleBattle of Okinawa...
I know that battle cost the US nearly 11,000 dead,(land & sea forces combined) the Japanese almost 120,000 dead,(including over 1,000 Kamikaze pilots) & over 150,000 Okinawan civilians were...
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