Category: History Daily
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July 26, 1943: ‘Battle of the Pips’.
Image: The battleship USS Mississippi pictured in 1945. A veteran of the First World War, she had been extensively modernized and served throughout the Pacific, primarily as a shore bombardment vessel.
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July 26,1944, Balabac Strait – Philippines
26 July 1944 Balabac Strait – Philippines On her third patrol, the US Navy submarine USS Robalo (SS-273) strikes a mine and rapidly sinks. Four of her crew managed to swim to Palawan Island. One of them is the skipper, Lieutenant Commander Manning Kimmel, the son of Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the Pacific…
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FREE ARTICLE – The Battle of the Hills of Champagne, April 1917.
Image: French Zouave Captain holding a wounded German soldier at gunpoint at Mt. Cornillet during the Battle of the Hills, May 1917..On April 17, 1917, the Battle of the Hills of Champagne began, also called the Third Battle of Champagne, a supporting offensive to the main French effort on the Chemin des Dames of the…
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Madeleine Riffaud – July 23, 1944.
“Resistance is attacking those that are stronger than you. Terrorism is for the weak.” 80 years ago, on July 23, 1944. “I had to shoot a German NCO on the Solférino bridge in Paris.Well, he went down like a sack of wheat. He uttered no cry. Maybe he was a good guy, maybe he was…
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Ariadna Scriabina: French Resistance Hero
Toulouse, France – Saturday, 22 July 1944 Ariadna Scriabina (Knout) and two other French Resistance members go to 11 rue de la Pomme, an apartment used as a dead drop in the city of Toulouse. She is carrying false identification papers for other Resistance members. What they do not know is that French Milice is…
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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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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…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 