Andree de Jongh was 23 years-old when Belgium was conquered by the Germans. She was a nurse at the time. Since her personal hero was Edith Cavell, a nurse who helped Allied soldiers escape from the German occupation in WWI, she decided to join the resistance. She and her Read more…
The Holocaust resulted in the deaths of at least 6 million Jews over a period of 6 years. But the worst single event in WWII has to be the “Rape of Nanking (Nanjing)”. After the Japanese army captured Shanghai, it moved on to Nanking. The Chinese army barely put Read more…
Gouverneur Morris was one of America’s Founding Fathers. He was called the “Penman of the Constitution” because he wrote the Preamble. It was he that led off the document with “We the People…” He was a great man who suffered bodily throughout his life. As a boy, half of Read more…
The US began Operation Rolling Thunder in 1966. This was the bombing of North Vietnam, mainly by F-105 fighter bombers. The Thunderchief (Thud) was a durable plane which came in handy because it was targeted by anti-aircraft guns, SAM missiles, and MiG-21’s. The North Vietnamese had most of the Read more…