President Roosevelt, in his Proclamation 2629 announcing the official date of Thanksgiving 1944 as November 23 rd , delivered a speech to remind the war-weary nation of reasons and ways to continue to ...
Bhubaneswar: Ration card holders can now lift their quota of food grains one or two months in advance, food supplies and consumer welfare minister Krushna Chandra Patra informed the assembly on ...
The rapid advance on Aleppo came just four days into a surprise opposition offensive that is the most intense escalation in years in the civil war. By Muhammad Haj Kadour and Raja Abdulrahim ...
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All this week to get us in the holiday spirit, I’m going to be featuring holiday work stories readers have shared here in the past … and then updates season will start next week! To kick us off, here ...
Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...
When I was off-post training, it was likewise covered. The ground was my bed and K rations were my personal mess. Grant McGuire is a Huntington resident. His email address is [email protected].
Based on the 1947 novel of the same name, the story is based on a true World War 2 event. Scottish islanders off the coast of the Outer Hebrides have run out of whisky due to wartime rationing.
But he only starred in two World War 2 movies and directed several others. Film fans have ranked these four classics on IMDb and Where Eagles Dare missed out on the top spot. Check out the full ...
One of those photographs from social media of years past popped up and it was a picture of a Army soldier in World War II, a “Willie and Joe” GI getting his mess kit tin ready to receive the ...