Volunteers mark hundreds of veterans’ graves with flags on Memorial Day Due to the pandemic, cemetery staff and a small group of volunteers are marking veterans’ graves in Union Grove with flags in honor of Memorial Day. Dazia Cummings, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel You may notice that flags in Wisconsin are flying at half-staff on Thursday. […]
The U.S. Embassy in Indonesia is promoting bilateral cooperation between the two countries to preserve the underwater legacy of the heavy cruiser USS Houston, which sank in Banten Bay during World War II. Although he owned a presidential yacht, then-US President Franklin D. Roosevelt sailed this warship extensively in the late 1930s before it sank […]
Summary and key points: The Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the first aircraft produced by Skunk Works under Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, played a crucial role in World War II. Some experts consider it the best fighter aircraft of World War II. – Introduced in 1941, this twin-boom fighter was known for its speed, firepower and versatility. – […]
(WLUK) — Flags in Wisconsin will fly at half-staff Monday to commemorate a soldier killed in World War II. Governor Tony Evers issued the flag order in memory of Sergeant Jack Hohlfeld, whose remains were identified in May. “Sergeant Jack Hohlfeld was a decorated military hero who selflessly answered the call to duty and gave […]
MADISON, Wis. (WSAW) – Governor Tony Evers is ordering the United States and Wisconsin state flags to fly at half-staff on Monday, August 26, in honor of Sergeant Jack Hohlfeld of the U.S. Army Air Force. Hohlfeld lost his life in World War II. His remains were recently identified and returned to Wisconsin for burial. […]
DeLand, Florida. – A trip on the St. Johns River can be like a journey through time. And for Dan Friend, the clock stops in 1944. Friend sat in the front of a pontoon boat as it glided across the crystal-clear surface of Lake Beresford in DeLand. “It’s always fun to visit Tiger,” he said […]
Not all of Thompson’s subjects are crackpots. In fact, one of the more surprising episodes involves William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest-serving prime minister. King’s 21 years in power – longer than those of any other British prime minister – spanned the turmoil of the Great Depression, the chaos of 1930s Europe and World War […]
AURORA, Colorado (KKTV) – A construction crew recently came across an interesting and potentially dangerous object in Colorado. The Arapaho County Sheriff’s Office posted a photo of a World War II Mark 23 Mod 1 practice grenade on social media Tuesday, saying it was found by the construction company on Aug. 19. Bomb disposal crews […]
We are now once again in the preliminary phase of an international confrontation that will rapidly develop into world war unless democracies use their nuclear and conventional deterrence against territorial conquest. Comprehensive nuclear and conventional deterrence and Soviet assessment of the costs of war prevented the Cold War stalemate from escalating into World War III. […]
It is a story of prejudice, hardship and self-sacrifice, spiced with moments of incredible intimacy, spanning the Japanese occupation of Korea, World War II, the Korean War and the economic boom of the 1980s. After the overwhelmingly positive response to the first season, the second season has now been released, again based on Lee’s novel […]
