Originally posted at Reckonin.com My last post (Hitler’s New Fans) has received a fair amount of comment, mostly negative. Some have questioned why I addressed the subject? Because I thought someone needed to take notice of an unfortunate trend. I have no quarrel with the Alternative Right as long as it is attacking the evil Yankee Empire. But to bring...| Abbeville Institute
Leighton Willhite visited Virginia to see the tank he drove at Iwo Jima, 80 years ago. The post World War II Marine veteran reunites with tank he drove on Iwo Jima appeared first on Task & Purpose.| Task & Purpose
Maj. John "Lucky" Luckadoo flew 25 bombing missions over Europe during the war, surviving some of the most intense air battles of the war. He became an advocate for the 100th Bomb Group's history. The post ‘Lucky’ Luckadoo, last original pilot of World War II’s ‘Bloody Hundredth’ dies at 103 appeared first on Task & Purpose.| Task & Purpose
One of the original Marine Raiders, Frank S. Wright and was bayoneted in the stomach and shot in the chest during combat across the Pacific in World War II, including at Iwo Jima. The post Legendary Marine Raider finally promoted to sergeant at 100 appeared first on Task & Purpose.| Task & Purpose
When the USS Hornet sunk in World War II, a tractor used to move aircraft went down too. Now a recovery mission is being planned.| Task & Purpose
Originally published at Reckonin.com. It is natural and good that we revise our interpretations of past history now and then in the light of new evidence and the emergence of new perspectives on human affairs. But there seems to be going on at the moment a revisionism about World War II that is somewhat distorted in judging good and evil....| Abbeville Institute
By Col. Michael Haas, USAF, Ret. He was the nightmare come true to the notoriously paranoid and vicious Narodny Kommissaria Vnutrenny Diel (NKVD), the Soviet security service dreaded no less by Soviet citizens than by its German foe. Speaking fluent [...]| SOF News
The story of the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum near Granite Falls is part of a series called Lakes Country Treasures. Here, readers travel down the roads to some of the most unique must-see gems of Minnesota’s lakes country.| Perham Focus
The post August 17, 2025: Bill Krieger / Art Hill appeared first on Veterans Radio.| Veterans Radio
The story of the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum near Granite Falls is part of a series called Lakes Country Treasures. Here, readers travel down the roads to some of the most unique must-see gems of Minnesota’s lakes country.| Alexandria Echo Press
On May 24, 1945, at a reception in the Georgievsky Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in honour of the commanders of the Soviet forces, Stalin delivered his famous toast, a dedication to the Russian people. This is an article, … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
Eldar Shengelaia’s 1968 film is a layered parable on artistic individualism in the collectivist Soviet Union.| OC Media
By William Dennis Hitler’s goal in the December 1944 German counteroffensive through the Ardennes in southern Belgium and Luxembourg was to break through the American lines and take control of The post German Failure on the North Shoulder: The Ardennes, December 1944 appeared first on The Army Historical Foundation.| The Army Historical Foundation
The story of the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum near Granite Falls is part of a series called Lakes Country Treasures. Here, readers travel down the roads to some of the most unique must-see gems of Minnesota’s lakes country.| West Central Tribune
In January 1942, shortly after the United States was thrust into World War II by the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent December 11 declaration of war by Germany, officials in the Department of State considered the issue of the U.S. attitude toward the Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of … Continue reading Tell Us What You Really Think Mr. Secretary [Poison Gas Warfare], 1942| The Text Message
This week marks eighty years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima (August 6th, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9th, 1945). We would like to reflect back on previous Unwritten Record posts that highlight records documenting the destruction. In the weeks following the surrender of Nazi Germany, President Harry S. Truman would make the decision on how … Continue reading Link Roundup: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki| The Unwritten Record
William James has written a very good book that offers insights on the state of academic research into grand strategy as a subfield; proposes a new approach to evaluating the success and failures of specific national grand strategies based on the idea of proportionality; and details three case studies of British grand strategy in the... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Join us to discuss Doug Bradley's memoir The Tracks of My Years. We then meet Robert L. Gangwere, author of Forged in Fire, the untold story of WWII Red Cross Clubmobile women.| Veterans Radio
The latest edition of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been distributed. Here is the message of the Society’s Secretary Jamie Collinson that accompanied the distribution: The latest Evelyn Waugh Studies – edition 55.3 – is ready for your reading pleasure. … Continue reading →| The Evelyn Waugh Society
–A profile of author David Pryce-Jones has been posted on the website Onward and Upward. This is written by Jay Nordlinger and is a well-written, concise survey of Pryce-Jones’s life and works. Here’s an excerpt:| The Evelyn Waugh Society
No homing pigeon ever enlisted in any war, but they were used by the military on both sides of the conflicts during World Wars I and II. Once in place, […]| America Comes Alive
The 10-minute-long 1944 documentary went under the title «The convoy of the German POWs through Moscow» and show both the preparatory part and the actual passage of the «Parade of the Vanquished», which took place on July 17, 1944. 57,600 … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
Bushrod Rust Johnson of Macoupin County, a Quaker who helped his family assist fleeing...| The Telegraph
Reading time: 7minutes This is the full reconstructed version of the 1945 Victory Day Parade. While the film is in Russian, it is well worth watching it, even without understanding the language — to feel the atmosphere of Victory of 1945! 🎞 Together … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
On June 24, 1945, the first parade dedicated to the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War was held in Moscow on the Red Square. The combined regiments of the fronts, the combined regiment of the people's Commissariat of … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
Cannes. Glitz. Glamor. Film stars. Today, the Cannes film festival – formal title Festival de Cannes – is considered the epitome of the international motion picture world. The festival had an uncertain beginning. The first official French notification to the U.S. government of the planned festival arrived in the Department of State in the … Continue reading Calling “Cut” on the First Take at Cannes, 1939| The Text Message
Oppenheimer (2023) ★★★ Although Oppenheimer is a solid and historically accurate film, it is overly long - making its missed opportunities all the more glaring - and the key dramatic tension rests on speculation that was considered entirely fictional long before 1945. The post Film Review: Oppenheimer appeared first on Anatoly Karlin.| Anatoly Karlin
"If there weren't brave people like you – I wouldn't be here, and neither would my mother," Gene Simmons told Harold "Hal" Urban, who participated in| www.israelhayom.com
The retrospective at the de Young Museum includes his famed fashion photography,...| San Francisco Chronicle
Reading time: 8minutes Dmitry, an admin of a friendly channel, undertook a fundamental taks, compiling a list of 57 agreements, concluded between Germany and various states in the years leading up to and during World War II. The chronological list covers the period … Continue reading →| Beorn's Beehive
On March 19, 2025, the Evangelism Missions Archives received a wonderful item for its Zamzam collection (Collection 624): A 58-page typescript with handwritten notes of a diary kept by one of the s…| From the Vault
In late 1943/early 1944, Humphrey Bogart and his wife Mayo Methot went on an 2-1/2 month entertainment tour of military bases in North Africa and Italy for the USO. Their party also included actor Don Cummings and accordionist Ralph Hark. In addition to giving shows, Bogart and his wife visited hospitals and undertook other morale-boosting … Continue reading Private First Class Bogart| The Text Message
Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek, 1930 In 2001, a man named Zhang Xueliang passed away of pneumonia in a Honolulu hospital at the age of one hundred. He was a man most famously known as “th…| Goldwag's Journal on Civilization
"It is the American people who will suffer most."| SFGATE
Franz Jägerstätter and Fr. Gabriel Gay are two lesser-known victims of the Nazis. May their prayers deliver Europe from the wolves of secularism and restore the European nations to the Faith which forged them. (essay by Joseph Pearce)| The Imaginative Conservative
Dr. Tamar Katko commemorates Victory Day over Nazi Germany by telling the story of Jewish fighters in World War II, "They saw the sights at Auschwitz, then| www.israelhayom.com
80 years ago the strangest fight in World War II took place. American soldiers and Wehrmacht troops teamed up to fight the SS.| Task & Purpose
This blog post has been adapted and updated from the Wheaton College Historical Review Task Force Report (pp 55-57), released on September 14, 2023. The entire report can be found here. Ever…| From the Vault
The St. Louis Browns made it to just one World Series in the franchise’s history, and it happened to be during World War II when teams were depleted of much of their talent. The best pitcher on tha…| RIP Baseball
Overlooked stories of women are everywhere. Sometimes you just need to find them.| The Persistent
The Army is spending nearly $400,000 to relocate WWII-era barracks across a Wisconsin base instead of millions on a new building.| Task & Purpose
It’s been called Veterans Day in the United States since 1954. But it was originally called Armistice Day, and the date on which we remember the veterans of all wars was originally chosen because it is the day on which Germany surrendered to the Allies at the end of World War I, in 1918. It […]| Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road
TIN PICKLE, LOCAL GEDUNK The St. Augustine Lighthouse is shaking things up with its eatery called the “Tin Pickle.” This World War II-themed eatery embraces the 1940’s spirit with lots of unique offerings. Throw out any idea you have of what attraction food is because this eatery walks to its own beat. Think fresh, like [...]| St Augustine Light House
Operation Market Garden is the World War II campaign famously known as “a bridge too far.” This major Allied military campaign launched in The Netherlands in September 1944. It aimed… The post Tracing Operation Market Garden, a Major World War II Campaign appeared first on Exploring Our World.| Exploring Our World
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that maps and history are two of my favorite things. I love history because I love learning about the vast panoply of the human …| Goldwag's Journal on Civilization
From Naval Reserve to "oil king" on the USS Indianapolis, Robert Makowski was lost when the cruiser sank July 30, 1945.| Duluth News Tribune
For nearly 20 years the National Archives’ Alexandria Federal Records Center was housed in the former U.S. Naval Torpedo station located on Alexandria’s waterfront. A view of the Alexan…| Pieces of History
A grandstand at Herne Hill Velodrome, South London with a painted sign commemorating the stand’s construction for the 1948 Olympic Games. © Historic England Archive As the countdown for the Paris Summer Olympics has begun and the excitement for the international extravaganza of athletic prowess m| Messy Nessy Chic
June 22, 2024, will mark the 80th anniversary of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944. This landmark legislation is most commonly known as the GI Bill of Rights, as it offered Federal ai…| The Unwritten Record
Today’s post is by Rachael Salyer, Archivist in the Textual Reference Branch at the National Archives in College Park, MD. End of First Phase Map of France, June 1944 (NAID 18558251) The Textual Re…| The Text Message
My heart dropped when I received word recently that Homer Finley had died. As the last surviving member of the 1st Marine War Dog Platoon, he was a living link to the earliest days of our nation’s military working dog program. At the time he served, he was part of an experimental, unproven initiative. “Many […] The post Remembering WWII Marine handler Homer Finley appeared first on MWDTSA.| MWDTSA
Deborah Levine shares first-hand Untold stories of WW II and the Holocaust with wartime letters of her father, a " Ritchie Boy" Liberator.| ADR
World War II created a shortage of workers along with a national need to produce lumber for military efforts. During the war, Weyerhaeuser News, the lumber company’s magazine, ran features highlighting the work done by the women who took over for the men who were called to serve. The 1942 issue of Weyerhaeuser News (see... The post Pauline Bunyans and WWII Victory Lumber appeared first on Forest History Society.| Forest History Society
A review of Alison Weir’s book by Serena Wylde Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the US Was Used to Create Israel In this comprehensively researched book of 2014, Alison Weir relates how political Zionists went from a small interest group in the late 1880s, to a powerful movement in the 20th century, and achieved their goal…| The White Rose UK
Contrary to some historians’ arguments, my research of the Eagle Squadrons—based on interviews and questionnaires from its members, their diaries, memoirs, letters, and personnel records—concluded …| Reflections on War & Society
By Dr. Bryon Greenwald, National Defense University What sounds like the opening to a very poor joke is really an interesting, but disturbing historical question. While researching American An…| Reflections on War & Society
By Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University In early December 2020, after a Second World War Research Group, North America meeting, Douglas Bristol sent me an email to remind me that I ha…| Reflections on War & Society
In an interview this weekend with British TV channel Sky News, Susan Eisenhower reflects on Queen Elizabeth II’s special friendship with Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower.| SusanEisenhower
We reflect today and honor those who participated in World War II’s D-Day, the largest combined military operation in history. The man who led the invasion and took full responsibility for the outc…| SusanEisenhower
On this day in 1945, by the order of President Harry S. Truman, the American bomber Enola Gay drops a five-ton atomic bomb on Hiroshima.| Our Lost Founding