Leni Riefenstahl was a member of GREENPEACE!!!!!!
hahahahahaha
Very interesting.
My Dad was stationed in Panama, and my fatherIL flew as a civilian after being in the Navy twenty minutes.
I have booked mark the site.
The brief Hitler biography brought to mind the story of Hitler’s Irish born nephew, William Patrick Hitler, who went to enlist in the U.S. Navy in 1943. According to contemporaneous newspaper accounts, when he went to enlistment office, the recruiting officer returned his greeting with, “Glad to meet ya, Hitler, my name is Hess.”
Related - an assessment of what an invasion of Japan would have looked like:
http://www.webwizpro.com/1945InvasionofJapan.html
Little Boy and Fat Man saved the lives of TENS OF MILLIONS of Japanese.
Great link, thanks for posting it.
Here is another interesting fact I only realized in the last few years: in the battle for Guadalcanal in 1942, three times as many sailors died in the fighting around the island than Marines who died on the island.
US Navy: 5,041 killed and 2,953 wounded. (that isn’t a transposition...the number killed far exceeded the number wounded)
USMC and US Army: 1,769 killed and 4,283 wounded.
After reading many books on battles fought around the Solomon Islands, what happened to the crew of the USS Indianapolis was not a unique occurrence.
I worked for a guy whose father had been the editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung, roughly the equivalent of the New York Times, in prestige prior to the War. The family escaped and the son served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army in the Pacific. Helluva nice guy, and smart as a whip.
Thank you very much, macquire.
Very interesting...
Thanks.