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Blog No. 29 – May 1, 2025
The First Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, London, 1 May 1944Mackenzie King, Jan Smuts, Winston Churchill, Peter Fraser, and Jo...
Blog No. 28 – April 25, 2025
WWII’s First Combat Air Rescue
The helicopter with which Harman
made the first combat rescue,
25 April 1944. (U.S. Air Force)
On th...
Blog No. 27 – April 16, 2025
A gold bar worth $27,700 sailed a mile through the air and landed on a bungalow veranda.The 1944 Bombay explosion/ Railway archivesThe ...
Blog No. 26 – April 1, 2025
Boeing B-29 SuperfortressThe Boeing B-29 Superfortress was an American four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing an...
Blog # 25 – March 7, 2025
During World War II, there were approximately 12,000 blue-eyed, blond children who were kidnapped by the Nazis. These children became p...
Blog No. 23 – February 8, 2025
The Lima Maru was built in 1920 by the Mitsubishi Zosen Kaisha in Nagasaki for the Nippon Yusen shipping company.
IJA Transport LIMA...
Blog No. 22 – February 1, 2025
Operation FLINTLOCK: Invasion of the Marshall Islands, January-February 1944Operation Flintlock, January-February 1944. Fourth Marine D...
Blog No. 21 a – January 12, 2025
85 Years Ago—Jan. 12, 1940: US Interior Department motorship North Star reaches Bay of Whales, Antarctica, to establish West Base for e...
Blog No. 21 – January 12, 2025
TBM-1C Avengers of Torpedo Squadron 4 from carrier USS Essex crossing the Indochinese coast on their way to bomb shipping at Saigon, 12...
Blog No. 20 – December 31, 2024
Blog No. 20 – December 31, 2024
Featured Image: An illustration from the December 31, 1943 edition of the Harrisburg TelegraphAuthor...