FOE’S ENVOYS CONFER IN MANILA; ASK SWIFT DISARMING OF JAPAN; WAINWRIGHT FOUND WELL IN CAMP (8/20/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 8/20/45 | Frank L. Kluckhohn, George E. Jones, Drew Middleton, Harold Callender, Hanson W. Baldwin

[EternalVigilance]

http://www.nww2m.com/2014/12/unbroken/

Unbroken: Louis Zamperini
Liberated August 20, 1945

Zamperini, an Olympic track runner, served as a bombardier in the 307th Bombardment Group, 7th Air Force, flying B-24 Liberators in the Pacific. Zamperini’s aircraft went down in the Pacific and he and the two other survivors from his crew were adrift for 47 days. Captured and tortured by the Japanese, he survived the war, regaining freedom on August 20, 1945. Zamperini was one of the 34,648 Americans held prisoner by the Japanese during WWII. Nearly 40% of those men died in captivity, a staggering 12,935 lives lost.

Louis Zamperini at The National WWII Museum in 2011

[Hebrews 11:6]

Is my slip showing?

[Hebrews 11:6]

Louis was one-of-a-kind and, as you might imagine, is quite a hero among us Trojans. Sadly, he died mere months before he was to be Grand Marshall in this year’s Rose Parade; his family rode in his place. Why the Tournament of Roses waited until he was in his nineties is a bewilderment and, frankly, a scandal.

[henkster]

I detect sarcasm.

[EternalVigilance]

Ya think? lol...

[Hebrews 11:6]

That’s what you get for changing your tagline.