Month: July 2024
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Japanese Americans: Incarceration in World War II
During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated at least 125,284 people of Japanese descent in 75 identified incarceration sites. Most lived on the Pacific Coast, in concentration camps in the western interior of the country. Approximately two-thirds of the inmates were United States citizens. These actions were initiated by President Franklin…
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July 19, 1943 – Eastern Front
Stabsfeldwebel Paul Rätz pulls up after attacking a Soviet armoured train in the Leningrad sector. His stick shudders as his Focke-Wulf 190 takes hits from ground fire. Belly landing in swampy ground, he sets off but for his own lines, but is taken prisoner and repatriated to Germany in 1949. He passed away in 1989…
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Portrait of Madam C.J. Walker, the First Black Woman Millionaire in America
Madam C.J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records. Multiple sources mention that although other women (like Mary Ellen Pleasant) might have…
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The Life of Joseph Sadi-Lecointe
From flying pioneer to speed records, and finally death at the hands of the Gestapo – the story of Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, who died 80 years ago this day, July 14, 1944, after weeks of torture by the Nazis. Born in the Somme village of Saint-Germain-sur-Bresle (80703) on 11 July 1891, Joseph later went to school…
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French Resistance Fighter Micheline Blum-Picard during World War II
In the summer of 1944, 18-year-old Micheline Blum-Picard was busy working with a group of Resistance fighters deep behind the fighting in Normandy, but her clandestine work had begun two years before, when she was just 16. Born in Paris in 1923, Micheline became fluent in English by going to summer language camps in Britain.…
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The last of “The Few” – RAF Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway
84 years ago, the start of a sustained Luftwaffe air campaign against the British Isles would become known as “The Battle of Britain.” One of the fighter pilots, John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, is still with us and will celebrate his 105th birthday in less than a week.
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Sarah Rosetta Wakeman aka Lyons Wakeman: A Woman’s Life as a Man in the Civil War
In 1940, Jackson Doane, of Binghamton, unearthed a packet of letters, a ring and a picture in his family’s attic from Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, the older sister of Jackson’s great-grandmother. She was a family member that seemed to be little spoken about — and little known. In 1976, Jackson read those letters, discovering that they…
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53 Amazing Colorized Photos of World War 2
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world’s countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. In a total war directly involving more…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 