Category: History Daily
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The Divine Wind: Japanese Kamikazes of World War II
Image: Japanese high school girls wave farewell to departing Kamikaze pilots. “There was a hypnotic fascination to the sight so alien to our Western philosophy. We watched each plunging kamikaze with the detached horror of one witnessing a terrible spectacle rather than as the intended victim. We forgot self for the moment as we groped…
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The Catastrophe of Exercise Tiger, April 28, 1944.
Image: Rehearsal landing by US forces at Slapston Sands, Devon, in April 1944. The Catastrophe of Exercise Tiger, April 1944. In the early hours of April 28, 1944, a convoy of eight American LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank), carrying vehicles and combat engineers of the 1st Engineer Special Brigade, took part in Exercise TIGER and were…
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Lieutenant Omer Lévesque, DFC (U.S.), Air Medal (U.S.): Canadian Pilot Who Flew during World War II and the Korean War
Image: Sergeant Pilot Omer Levesque is assisted into his parachute prior to flying a mission while assigned to No. 401 Squadron, RCAF, on July 7, 1941, during World War II. Omer “Trottle” Lévesque served as a pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) during the Second World War. He flew many sorties over France and…
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FREE ARTICLE – The United States Camel Corps, 1856-1866.
Image: Sailors of USS Supply loading a camel aboard. In the 1850s, the U.S. Army conceived a plan to bring several camels from the Middle East into the United States and employ them to travel through large tracts of the American Southwest carrying cargo for the military. As improbable as this seems, it did actually…
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Minnie Ashley, aka Beatrice Chanler, Actress, Society Lady and Humanitarian
·Image: Minnie Ashley 1892 Minnie Ashley, aka Beatrice Chanler, Actress, Society Lady and Humanitarian One of the great beauties of the stage at the end of the 19th century, Minnie Ashley’s talents as a singer and dancer emerged in the madcap musical “1492” in 1892. Ashley was winsome, cheerful, and quick, an actress whose triumphs…
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Former Japanese Prime Minister General Hideki Tojo Attempts Suicide. September 11, 1945.
Image: General Hideki Tojo lies semiconscious, limp in a chair with a gaping bullet wound just below the heart after a botched attempt to kill himself as American soldiers surround his house. September 11, 1945. On September 11, 1945, former Japanese Prime Minister General Hideki Tojo attempted suicide as American soldiers arrived at his home…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 