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Never again will there be a man like George S. Patton. The four-star general wasn't just a great man on the field of battle, he was also an inspiring paragon of American values and civic virtue, a tale of man's will to overcome. George Smith Patton Jr. was born on what would become Veteran's Day, November 11, 1885 in San Gabriel, California. His father, George Smith Patton II, graduated from Virginia Military Institute on a scholarship but chose law over military service. Patton Jr. never seriously considered any other career path. Despite being an avid reader, Patton struggled to learn...

In a global battle on the scale of World War II, there are a lot of issues that slip through the cracks. Whether it’s something we refuse to admit or simply something so foreign and bizarre that we just don’t know what to make of it, there remain several unsolved mysteries from World War II. *TOPICS The Blutfahne (NAZI Blood Flag) Subhas Chandra Bose British Soldiers Of Auschwitz Ness Gun Battery’s Mystery Artist Raoul Wallenberg Heinrich Mueller Jean Moulin Hermann Goring

Most of us tend to associate the start of America’s involvement in World War II with the tragedy that struck Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Technically, we aren’t wrong. The United States did in fact make the decision to officially enter the war following the events of that terrible day. However, the Attack on Pearl Harbor was not the first deadly attack against U.S. forces during the overall duration of the war, nor was it the first time a U.S. warship was ravaged by the Axis. The story I am about to tell you may sound familiar to any...

There were about half a dozen prisoner of war camps in Tennessee during World War II — the best known of which was Camp Crossville, in Cumberland County. We know a lot more about Camp Crossville than the others because of Gerhard Hennes. Hennes was a German officer captured in North Africa in May 1943. Five months later, he entered the gates of Camp Crossville, where he was interred for two years. After World War II, Hennes would become an American citizen, and in 2004 he published The Barbed Wire: POW in the USA. In it he gives a detailed...

Unreliable Haaretz deceving headline about Arabs who fought on British side in WW2On Haaretz "celebrating" a headline about Arab Palestinians fighting on British side based on shaky "research".Many Arabs were not from Palestine but came over from Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.Many did so with the intention to get arms.Jews paid Arabs to be enlisted.Abbasi chose selective sources, yet neither the quantitative nor the qualitative aspect of his theory is supported by the evidence.Shukairy's own testimony in his book states that (1940) almost no one adhered Britain's call to join a Palestine force to help the Allies.Conclusion:The patched up concocted Abbasi...

Work has begun on an animated film depicting the true story of the cigarette smoking, beer drinking bear which 'fought' alongside soldiers in the Second World War. Adopted as an orphaned cub in 1942 by the 22nd Artillery Division of the Polish 2nd Corps, Wojtek, which in Polish means 'smiling warrior' or 'he who enjoys war', quickly became an adored mascot. He went on to be officially given the rank of Private and learnt to march alongside the troops, salute and even carry cases of ammunition.

Oct 17, 1961 - "Birthday" of 'apartheid slur' by Arab Nazi From Shukeiri to Shakir - the big racist lie 1927. Ahmad Shukeiri agitates at university in Beirut. He is expelled. 1935. March, the Templars' Das Wort reports that Istiqlal Party, which began to reorganize, also adopted Nazi ideas. Adding: "This party's publication shows a clear sympathy for Nazism and fights fiercely against the Jewish boycott of Germany." The Istiqlal party was founded 3 years earlier by Shukeiri and others. 1939. Shukeiri helps Mufti murder his brother, a moderate, Dr. Anwar Shukeiri June-8-1939 ('Maariv', Oct 21, 1949. p. 11). [Mufti's...

(Photo: Naval History and Heritage Command)We often say, "if only a gun could talk," but in this case, the voyage through history that the above .45 ACP took is well-documented.Also joining the fleet in 1941 was Ensign Victor Antoine Moitoret, a Californian who was admitted to the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1937 and graduated with the Class of '41. Moitoret's first ship was the brand-new aircraft carrier USS Hornet, which he joined three months prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that ushered America into World War II.Moitoret served as an assistant navigator on Hornet during the flattop's...

Nazi Arab: 1930s, 1940s & beyond Hitler was clear about his disdain for the Arab world, writing in Mein Kampf: "As a völkisch man, who appraises the value of men on a racial basis, I am prevented by mere knowledge of the racial inferiority of these so-called 'oppressed nations' from linking the destiny of my own people with theirs".[1] And the Grand Mufti al-Husseini has said "that after the Jews, the Germans would destroy the Arabs— he knew this."[46]In the 1930s, Arab students returning from studying in Europe were determined to found the Arab Nazi party.[2]In February, 1932, the predominat...

Pictured on the front page is George Washington University back Walt Fedora, who was also pictured in yesterday's sports section. The Brooklyn (football) Dodgers draft Fedora in 1942 and he plays eight games before joining the U.S. Navy. The first "Liberty" ship, Patrick Henry, has been launched (see page two). 18 different American shipyards produce 2,710 of these vessels over the course of the war (averaging three ships every two days). 80 years later just two remain operational and three are museum ships. Ohio State won it's opener against the University of Missouri today, led by a coach who was...

The Arab League’s Propaganda Campaign in the U.S. Against the Establishment of a Jewish State (1944-1947) Rickenbacher Daniel. Israel Studies. Volume 25, Issue 1. Spring 2020. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.25.1.01 https://www.academia.edu/41113347/The_Arab_Leagues_Propaganda_Campaign_in_the_US_Against_the_Establishment_of_a_Jewish_State_1944_1947_ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337759153_The_Arab_League's_Propaganda_Campaign_in_the_US_Against_the_Establishment_of_a_Jewish_State_1944-1947 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/articles/edsgcc__edsgcl.619402503/pdf/fulltext Introduction In 1944, the Arab League started planning a propaganda offensive in Western countries to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. The League’s focus of attention was the United States, where, members believed, Palestine’s future would eventually be decided and where they deemed it imperative to counter the Zionist campaign. In 1945 and 1946, it opened offices in Washington, D.C. and New York. The efficiency of these...

Article in the HaAretz newspaper on March 2, 1970, p. 16 Title: The Mufti planned crematoriums for Jews in the Dotan Valley On the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 1943, "His Holiness" organized a mass protest rally in Berlin with the participation of Muslim and Arab exiles from Morocco, Israel, Lebanon, Yemen, Mahjaz, India and Iran. Thousands of SS representatives from government ministries and branches of the Nazi party also took part in this rally, which was held in the Luftwaffe Hall and was broadcast on Radio Berlin, Athens and Belgrade. The Mufti was the keynote speaker...

....The mutineers were ethnic Bosniaks recruited and/or conscripted via the Third Reich’s fascist Croatian puppet state. Many were unenthusiastic about their situation, whether due to bigotry from their German officers, rumors of a redeployment to the frightful eastern front, or prior left-wing ideological commitments. Pressed by desperate manpower needs, Berlin could not be so choosy about the political orientations of its cannon-meat. Some like Ferid Dzanic, actually volunteered out of captivity still in a prisoner of war camp. In Dresden, during the summer of 1943, he met Bozo Jelenek (under the pseudonym Eduard Matutinovic) and Nikola Vukelic at the pionir...

Andy Biggio, author of The Rifle, has released an hour-long video (sorry it is YouTube), of his trip several years ago, to take two elderly WWII Veterans back to visit Italy. I have only watched about 1/4 of this so far, and it keeps going all blurry on me. Andy is a SAINT. He hosts the Boston Wounded Vets Run, which is coming up this weekend. If someone wants to put it to Rumble, go for it.

A charity named after Winston Churchill has provoked fury by rebranding itself amid concerns over his views on race. The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust has removed pictures of the wartime leader from its website and is changing its name to the Churchill Fellowship. Volunteers at the trust said it was 'rewriting history'. One told The Sun: 'He was voted, by the people, as the Greatest Briton in a BBC poll in 2002 but is now erased from his own charity by the woke brigade. ... ...Controversies surrounding his rule include whether he could have acted more decisively to prevent the...

They planned to kill six million Germans - one for every Jewish life lost in the Holocaust - by poisoning the country's water supply. Now a film is set to show how the renegade revenge squad came chillingly close to succeeding, writes MARGARETTE DRISCOLL The Nokmim escaped through sewers from the Vilna Ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania Renegade revenge squad hatched an audacious plan to kill six million Germans They wanted to kill one for every Jewish life that was lost during the Holocaust Now, they are the inspiration for the thriller movie Plan A, released this weekend Amid the ruins...

As night began to fall on 31 August, 1939, a small, hand-picked team of SS troops crept into the then German city of Gleiwitz. Disguised as Polish saboteurs, their mission was to launch an attack on the city's main radio station to give Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler a justification for invading Poland. It was part of what was codenamed Operation Himmler - the false flag attacks carried out by the Fuhrer's military intelligence service the Abwehr, along with the feared SS and the Gestapo to give the impression of Polish aggression towards Germany. Entering through the back door, they locked...

The story of the complex events that occurred during liberation of Dachau Camp by the US Army in April 1945.Liberating Dachau 1945 (16mins)

WWII veteran Tom Rice celebrated his birthday in epic fashion. According to First Coast News, Rice wanted to do something a little extra special to celebrate his 100th birthday and that meant parachuting out of an airplane. Rice, who jumped into Normandy on D-Day with the 101st Airborne, parachuted out of a vintage WWII plane and landed at the Coronado Hotel in San Diego over the weekend for his birthday. The WWII veteran is from San Diego and lived there when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, according to the same report. You can watch the awesome moment unfold below.

A missing link in strategies to contain China is Indonesia the fourth biggest country in the world. It is a very conservative God-fearing young nation with a keen appreciation of freedom. Who agrees?