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  • The plastic bra, part of the uniform of women workers during World War II

    The entry of the USA into World War II meant, as in the other countries involved, the abandonment of many jobs in the industrial fabric occupied by the men who fought in the war. Jobs until now held only by men -such as in construction, shipyards, steel mills, armament factories...- were filled by w

  • From baggage handler to homeless man to war hero

    After a baggage handler becoming a war hero and his subsequent days of rose wine, this story could have had a happy ending but sadly it didnt for our protagonist... Henry Lincoln Johnson . Henry Lincoln Johnson Johnson was a baggage handler who worked at the Albany train station. (New York) that

  • When Romania fought against the Allies and the Germans… at the same time

    In the article by George Vujnovich I already commented that after the successful Allied invasion of Sicily, in the fall of 1943, the Allies occupied all of southern Italy and moved the 15th US Air Force from Tunisia to Foggia (Italy) to attack the oil fields and refineries of Ploesti (Romania) that

  • After 44 years he managed to find out why his enemy spared his life

    On December 20, 1943, he was taking off from RAF Kimbolton airfield. (England) the B-17 bomber, called Ye Olde Pub , of the United States Air Force (USAF) with the mission of bombing an aircraft factory in Bremen (Germany). The aircrafts crew consisted of Bertrand O. Coulombe, Alex Yelesanko, Richar

  • The spy who used the Hilary Swank method to outwit the Gestapo

    Christine Granville , nom de guerre of the Polish Countess Krystyna Skarbek , she has been considered by many to be the best agent of the British secret services during World War II, and it is even said that she was Winston Churchills favorite spy. Born in 1908 in Warsaw, she was the second daughte

  • Judy, the only dog ​​recognized as a prisoner of war

    The dog Judy , an English pointer, was the only dog ​​recognized as a prisoner of war and, in addition, the British government decorated her with the Dickin Medal , which recognizes the merit of animals in times of war. Judy was born somewhere in Shanghai and as a puppy she was adopted as a pet by

  • The Downed Pilots Who Saved the Head Cutters

    On November 16, 1944, a United States Army Air Forces B-24 bomber (USAAF ) crashed in the Borneo jungle after being shot down by the Japanese. Seven of the ten crew members of the plane managed to parachute before the plane crashed in the middle of the jungle. Their lives had been saved… for now .

  • The Luckiest Family of World War II

    After the landing of the Allies in Normandy, a group of American soldiers is entrusted with a dangerous mission:to save Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have died in the war... this was the plot of the film Save Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg . The death of three brothers in the war justif

  • When the Allies practiced ethnic cleansing

    After the end of World War II, and for three years, the victorious allies carried out the largest forced population transfer:between twelve and fourteen million people of German origin residing in the occupied countries of Eastern Europe, were expelled from their homes and forced to settle in a Germ

  • Everyday life in the Warsaw ghetto… hidden in cans

    The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of all those established in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. In 1940, an area of ​​just over 3 km2 was fenced off to confine the Jewish population of Warsaw and its surroundings, some 400,000. It was three years of hunger, illnesses, deportations to the Tre

  • The first Iberia aircraft equipped with weapons

    At the beginning of the Second World War, Spain declared itself neutral (BOE, September 4, 1939): Officially acknowledging the state of war that unfortunately exists between England, France and Poland on one side and Germany on the other, I hereby order the strictest neutrality of Spanish subjects

  • A Christmas Carol in the Middle of World War II

    Even in the middle of a bloody war, the miracle of Christmas can take place. After the Normandy landings, Operation Overlord , the Allied offensive suffered a major setback when British airborne forces attempted to seize the Arnhem bridge. (Netherlands) one month later. Hitler decided to launch an

  • The day British kayakers attacked German ships

    The defeat of the allies in the Battle of France , and the subsequent armistice signed on June 22, 1940 in the wagon of revenge, left France divided in two:a German occupation zone in the north and west and an unoccupied zone, the free zone, in the south with the Vichy puppet government. Despite the

  • The day a Canadian hospital room was declared a territory of the Netherlands

    On April 30, 1927, Princess Juliana of the Netherlands celebrated her 18th birthday. According to the constitution, she had officially come of age and was prepared to assume royal prerogatives if necessary. Her next step was to find a husband for her among European royalty and her mother, Queen Wilh

  • The wives and mothers who managed to defeat Goebbels

    In the image and likeness of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina or the Ladies in White In Cuba, in the heart of Nazi Germany, there was also a group of women, wives and mothers, who staged the only public protest to prevent the deportation of the Jews... and they succeeded . On February

  • The day Churchill offered France to become a single nation

    On May 10, 1940, the Wehrmacht (armed forces of Nazi Germany) began the offensive to occupy France. Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister, andCharles de Gaulle , secretary of the National Defense Council, were in favor of continuing the resistance in the colonies if France fell, but the majority of members

  • The US took 66 years to recognize the agent who rescued 500 airmen

    On October 14, 2010, at the age of 95, George Vujnovich – agent of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) , the United States intelligence service during World War II and considered the forerunner of the CIA – was awarded the Bronze Star Medal of Honor in a ceremony held at the St. Sava Serbian Orth

  • We are more than 200 million, you will not be able to hang us all.

    Youre going to hang up on me, but Im not the only one. We are more than 200 million, you cant hang us all … these were the words of the 18-year-old Russian heroine Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya shortly before being executed. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Being very small, she already showed her interest in readi

  • Manual for playing golf in the middle of a war

    For four months, from July to October 1940, the German air force, Luftwaffe , attempted to achieve air superiority over the British Royal Air Force (RAF ), during the first half of World War II in the so-called Battle of Britain . It was not a single battle but several campaigns of air raids on Brit

  • The explosive powder that was also used to make cupcakes

    Technological development in times of war, focused on military supremacy against the enemy, has led to civilian uses on several occasions. And although with this explosive powder, called Aunt Jemima Due to its similarity with the brand of flour used to make pancakes, it could even be cooked... I don

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