Post: #15

I was playing in the front yard when the fat chick from next door came running over hollering about "They Shot President Kennedy". This was Dallas Texas, about 5 miles from the school book deposiotory

Post: #16

12/7/2011

today is the 70^th anniversary of the japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.














Life Photos of attack here:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,...&hpt=hp_c3

Post: #17

I've been to Pearl Harbor, in 2005. Took the tour, met a Pearl Harbor survivor, rode the boat to the white memorial. It is true that fuel is still leaking and is visible on the surface of the water.

I'm going again to Honolulu in January and I'll take my 4 year old to Pearl. He actually is fascinated by WWII aircraft, and I know he's looking forward to seeing where the 'Arizona' now rests.

Will he understand the significance? Doubt it. But he wants to go, and maybe he'll 'get' more than I realize.

Post: #18

Pearl survivors on this day. the greatest generation.

Post: #19

Poignant photos.

Post: #20

the Battle of the Bulge, 67 years ago.

i had to do a report on this decisive battle while in high school. i wish i had these photos then.

Breathtaking new photographs, including several vivid full-color images, offer a never-before-seen look at the war-weary soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge who fought through the frozen Ardennes Forest in a mountainous region of Belgium in the dead of winter.

They show soldiers on both sides battling the frigid weather as they fought each other during Nazi Germany's last-ditch effort to drive back Allied forces between December 1944 and January 1945.

The pictures were released by Life Magazine on the 67^th anniversary of the start of the grueling battle.At the end of the of the 41-day offensive, 19,000 American soldiers were dead. The British Army lost 1,400 lives. Total allied casualties are estimated at 110,000 - making it the bloodiest battle for American troops in all of World War II.

Under-manned and not prepared to camp out in temperatures that dropped to four degrees below zero Fahrenheit, American forces held out against German tanks and troops until reinforcements, including General George S. Patton's Third Army.









1945 Belgium



15-year-old German soldier



nazi POWs

Post: #21

'OH THE HUMANITY!'


Sunday May 6^th marks the 75^th anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster.

FULL STORY:
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/2...m-that-day


Sunday May 6^th marks the 75^th anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster.



HINDENBURG FACTS
Length: 803.8 feet
Diameter: 135.1 feet
Hydrogen capacity: 7 million cubic feet
Cruising speed: 76 miles per hour
Maximum speed: 84 miles per hour
Cruising altitude: 650 feet
Main powerplant: 4 Daimler-Benz 16-cylinder diesel propeller engines
Crew capacity: 40 flight officers and men; 10-12 stewards and cooks
Passenger capacity: 72 sleeping berths (1937)
(The Hindenburg disaster resulted in 36 deaths: 13 of 36 passengers; 22 of 61 crew members, and 1 civilian ground crew member.)

Post: #22

Mythbusters has a good episode about the Hindenburg and the thermite reaction.

Post: #23

Off with her head!!

Anne Boleyn in the Tower by Edouard Cibot (1799 - 1877)
Alas! they are so stronge
my dolor will not suffer strength
my lyfe for to prolonge.
Toll on, the passinge-bell;
ring out my dolefull knell;
let thy sounde my death tell.
for I must dye;
there is no remedie.

Post: #24

(05-19-2012 10:16 PM)Maggot Wrote:  Off with her head!!

Anne Boleyn in the Tower by Edouard Cibot (1799 - 1877)
Alas! they are so stronge
my dolor will not suffer strength
my lyfe for to prolonge.
Toll on, the passinge-bell;
ring out my dolefull knell;
let thy sounde my death tell.
for I must dye;
there is no remedie.

second wife of Henry Vlll

mother of Queen Elizabeth l