Category: History Daily
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Andrée De Jongh – To Fight Without Killing
With Brussels now liberated, we look back at a woman who played a role in resisting the German occupation and helping downed Allied airmen. Andrée was born in 1916 in Schaerbeek, a suburb of Brussels in German occupied Belgium. When Belgium capitulated on 28 May 1940, she volunteered to work in a Bruges hospital where…
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The Execution of Canadian Private Harold Pringle. July 5, 1945.
Image: Private Harold Pringle. The last Canadian military member to be executed. The Execution of Private Harold Pringle If the Canadian public found out, there would be hell to pay. The war had been over for nearly two months, after all, and during World War II, no other Canadian soldier had been convicted of murder…
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Massacre at Buchères. August 24, 1944.
Massacre at Buchères. August 24, 1944. With German forces withdrawing in France, and Paris on the cusp of liberation, the Nazis continue their brutal treatment of the civilian population. On August 24, 1944, the village of Buchères (10800) near Troyes was to experience a day of horror. The previous evening, FFI fighters set up a…
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FREE ARTICLE – Medal of Honor Action of Radio Operator Staff Sergeant Henry ‘Red’ Erwin. April 19, 1945.
Image: Staff Sergeant Henry E. Erwin. In the lead B-29 on a mission to Koriyama, north of Tokyo, he was tasked with releasing white phosphorus smoke bombs through a chute to assist with the assembly of 167 bombers from Guam and Tinian. There were initially no issues, but one phosphorous bomb exploded prematurely and ricocheted…
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The Neuhammer Stuka Disaster, August 15, 1939.
Image: Junkers Ju87 B-1, the variant involved in the Neuhammer accident and the primary equipment of Stuka units for the first year of the war. August 15, 1939. The Junkers 87 Stukas of I/StG 76 were briefed to put on a dive bombing demonstration for a group of generals near Neuhammer in present-day Świętoszów, Poland,.…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 