by Mitch Kaidy | 08 May 2007 | News
Whether they had been urban or rural residents, millions of World War II ’s GIs deeply absorbed values during their military service that shaped their lives after the war.
They learned discipline; discipline day and night; discipline under fire, discipline in mud and snow; discipline under the most dire and dangerous conditions. They learned, no matter how impossible and threatening the situation, to achieve an objective assigned by an Army authority: and this hard-earned learning experience made all the difference in their subsequent lives.
by Mitch Kaidy | 22 Sep 2006 | News
Seldom” writes David D. Lowman, “has any major event in U.S. history been as misrepresented as has US intelligence about the evacuation” of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
On the evidence of hard-documentation produced in this book, Lowman proves his assertion. Reproducing a massive amount of evidence available to government authorities both in World War II and currently (wiretaps, pages of decoded messages, translated reports in the 1940s about the American fleet from Hawaii and Manila to Tokyo), the author of this powerful book declares that the evacuation “has been twisted, distorted, misquoted, misunderstood, ignored, and deliberately falsified by otherwise honorable people.”
by Mitch Kaidy | 22 Sep 2006 | News
If you really want to know what World War II was like for those who did most of the fighting and dying, don’t bother with the famous “The Greatest Generation.”
Read this book.
Of the scores of books I’ve read about World War II since being discharged from the infantry in 1945, two stand out.
by Preston Durrer | 25 Jun 2005 | News
Fred A. Woodress, DivHqs, is the author of a new book of plays, “Slave or Free and 11 Other Problem-solving Plays” with wife Anne Blackmon Woodress from AuthorHouse, Bloomington, Ind. Two of the plays by Fred Woodress are about World War II....
by Wayne Luedke | 22 Apr 2004 | News
Tears well up in his eyes and his voice breaks as Wayne Luedke recalls events of nearly 60 years ago. Luedke, a big man who anyone would think was tough as they come, spent 154 days in combat during World War II. His division fought in three major battles – Central Europe, Rhineland and Battle of the Bulge – and liberated prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.
by Mitch Kaidy | 23 Jul 2003 | News
Under bright blue skies, two huge and colorful 16-feet long signs dedicated to the 87th Infantry Division as well as Gen. George S. Patton were unveiled along Interstate 390 just south of Rochester, N.Y. on July 17. New York State Department of Transportation...