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 SINCE 6 JUNE 1944, THE ALLIES HAD DISEMBARKED NEARLY 630,000 MEN AND 37,034 AMERICANS AND 24,698 BRITISH AND CANADIAN SOLDIERS WERE KILLED AND WOUNDED.  Taking a wider view, during the Battle of Normandy over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing.  Since 6 June 1944, the Allies had disembarked nearly 630,000 men, about 177,000 vehicles and 600,000 tons of equipment.  37,034 Americans and 24,698 British and Canadian soldiers were killed, wounded, taken prisoner or missing in action. Taking a wider view, during the Battle of Normandy over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing.  This figure includes around 210,000 Allied casualties, with nearly 37,000 killed amongst the ground forces and a further 16,000 deaths amongst the Allied air forces. German losses of around 200,000 were killed or wounded; a further 200,000 were taken prisoner during the Campaign.  Looking just at the fierce fighting which...

THE FIRST EI ALAMEIN CLASH IN JULY 1942, HOW THE BRITISH 8th ARMY SUFFERED A BITTER DEFEAT IN GAZELLE. Although the Axis commanders were taken aback at the violence of the assault, the Eighth Army’s progress was painfully slow; the British armour failing to get to grips with the enemy, On 2nd November, Rommel signalled to Hitler that the battle was lost. The first El Alamein clash came in July 1942. The British 8th Army had suffered a bitter defeat in Gazala, Libya, in June.  Rommel had pushed the British and Commonwealth Troops back into Egypt.  Then Commander-in-Chief Middle East General Claude Auchinleck made his stand at El Alamein. Despite stopping Rommel in his tracks, Auchinleck was relieved of command in early August.  His replacement would be General Bernard Montgomery: the man who would finally kick the Axis out of North Africa once and for all. By mid-October 1942, Montgomery could deploy approximately double the number of men and tanks available to Rommel’s Ge...

ON MAY 29, 1942, THE JEWS IN THEIR VILLAGE IN BELARUS WERE MARCHED OUT OF THE TO THE LOCAL CEMETERY AND THEY WERE BEEN EXECUTED,  Despite Germany being the most extreme offenders, the Soviet union too has a long History of antisemitism. Many of the survivors of WW2 were "l still remember the young girl, slender and dark, who, passing near me, pointed at herself, saying, "twenty-three."I walked around the mound and faced a frightful common grave. Tightly packed corpses were heaped so close together that only the heads showed. Most were wounded in the head, and the blood flowed over their shoulders. Some still moved. Others raised their hands and turned their heads to show that they were still alive. The ditch was two-thirds full. I estimate that it held a thousand bodies. Read the Testimony of Hermann Friedrich Graebe to the Nuremberg Trials from his time in Dubno, Ukraine Here in Berlin and more and more across Germany, we have so-called "Stolpersteine." These ...

 On this day lost, but never forgotten...Anthony J. Tencza was born on May 13, 1919, to Joseph and Caroline Tencza. His home of record is Wallington, NJ.  He had two brothers and two sisters. Anthony was raised and educated in Passaic, NJ, attending Passaic High School. Following his graduation from high school, he was employed by a local spring and wire manufacturer and had worked his way up to foreman by the time he was drafted in September 1941. Tencza served in the US Army and attained the rank of Colonel (COL). In early 1942, Colonel Tencza successfully completed Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, GA, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Infantry.  He spent the remainder of World War II at various installations in the United States. After the war, for two years, he served with the US occupation forces in Japan. In 1948, Colonel Tencza was assigned to the 505th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division and was stationed at Fort Bragg, NC. In...

 ON THIS DAY 22nd JULY, THE UKRAINE BRODY POCKET WAS ELIMINATED, AFTER ATTEMPTED BREAKOUT BY GERMAN TROOPS.  Things went wrong almost from the start as the Red Air Force appeared at daybreak in waves, As Russian fighters, bombers, and ground attack aircraft flew unopposed. On this day 22nd July 1944. In Ukraine, the Brody Pocket was eliminated; after an attempted breakout by German troops, Soviet forces captured 17,000 German prisoners of war. In the early hours of July 21, the approximately 30,000 men left in Hauffe’s command began the breakout attempt.  Since there were few roads in the area, the breakout forces had to literally line vehicles bumper to bumper in order to negotiate the inhospitable terrain.  Things went wrong almost from the start as the Red Air Force appeared at daybreak in waves. As Russian fighters, bombers, and ground attack aircraft flew unopposed, some at treetop level, columns of smoke and fire erupted among the assembled vehicles.  Larg...

 Denshawai Incident ― 1906, Egypt  On 13 June 1906, five officers of the occupying British army, with their interpreter and a police official, visited Denshawai ( دنشواي ) to go pigeon shooting. They accidentally shot pigeons belonging to villagers who kept them as domestic animals, angering the owners. The pigeons were also a source of food for the poor villagers which further enraged the villagers because the British officers were shooting them for fun.  However, the major catalyst was the accidental shooting of the wife of the prayer leader at the local mosque. Enraged, the Egyptians mobbed the British officers and camp. The British officers, alarmed, opened fire on the mob, wounding five, and set fire to the grain of Abd-el-Nebi. Abd-el-Nebi, whose wife had been seriously injured, struck one of the officers with a stick. He was joined by the elderly Hassan Mahfouz, whose pigeons had been killed. Other villagers threw stones at them. The officers, two Irishmen and thre...

 Shizuya Hayashi of Waialua, Hawaii, a Private in the U.S. Army, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions on November 29, 1943, near Cerasuolo, Italy. Hayashi was born to Japanese immigrant parents and was a Nisei, meaning he was a second-generation Japanese-American.  He joined the Army in March 1941 and volunteered to be a part of the all-Nisei 100th Infantry Battalion, made up of Japanese-Americans from Hawaii and the mainland.  On November 29, 1943, during a flank assault on high ground held by the enemy near Cerasuolo, Italy, Private Hayashi rose alone in the face of grenade, rifle, and machine gun fire. Firing his automatic rifle from the hip, he charged and overtook an enemy machine gun position, killing seven men in the nest and two more as they fled.  After his platoon advanced 200 yards from this point, an enemy antiaircraft gun opened fire on the men. Private Hayashi returned fire at the hostile position, killing nine of the enemy, taki...

A PAINFUL STORY OF HOW DRUG CARTEL KIDNAPPED A WOMAN FROM HER HOUSE AND HUNG HER HALF NAKED AS A WARNING TO THEIR ENEMIES.  the dominant organized crime group in this part of Mexico, The note said some Gulf Cartel members were responsible for the kidnapping and killings and apologized for their actions. Half-naked woman hanged on a bridge Members of a drug cartel kidnapped a woman from her house and hung her half-naked on a road bridge as a warning to their enemies.  It is likely that the incident happened in Mexico...  5 alleged Mexican cartel members charged in kidnapping of 4 Americans Five alleged members of a powerful Mexican cartel were charged with aggravated kidnapping and murder on Friday in connection to the kidnapping of four Americans, and the killing of two of them, in the border city of Matamoros. The Attorney General's Office of Tamaulipas announced the charges a day after the Gulf Cartel allegedly took responsibility for the kidnapping.  The five men ...

 Ruth Closius - Nazi war criminal. Ruth Closius was born in Breslau in Germany on the 5th of July 1920. She married a man named Neudeck and in some accounts is called Ruth Closius-Neudeck. She had belonged to the SS guard staff of Ravensbrück and had worked there in various capacities from the 3rd of July 1944, including work in the punishment barracks in late 1944. She was promoted to Oberaufseherin (senior supervisor), at Uckermark in early 1945 and worked there until the camp was liberated. The third Ravensbrück trial, also called the "Uckermark trial", was held at the British Military Court in Hamburg between April 14th and April 26th 1948 to hear the cases of five women officials from the Uckermark concentration camp and extermination complex.   This was a satellite camp that housed girls aged 16 – 21.  Two of the women were acquitted, two received prison terms but Ruth Closius was condemned to death on the 26th of April 1948, having confessed to the torture and...

 CHICAGO RACE RIOT OF 1919 With our daily news still sadly filled with stories of racial unrest, we look back at the bloody summer of 1919 and the riots that wreaked havoc in Chicago, starting on July 27. It was a horrific event that lasted for a week, leaving 38 people dead and another 500 injured -- and it was started by a thrown rock. The 1919 Chicago Riots were started by a gang member from the notorious Ragen's Colts, a mostly Irish bunch from the Stockyards neighborhood.  The Colts dated back to the 1890s, when the Ragen’s Athletic and Benevolent Association started a baseball team, the Morgan Athletic Club. The star pitcher was a rough and tumble Irish lad named Frank Ragen. By 1902, the club had 160 members and held an annual fund-raising minstrel show, a picnic and a ball, which citizen’s reform groups regularly denounced for its debauchery and drunkeness.  The proceeds from the fundraisers, augmented by “donations” from the Democratic Party faithful, paid for a ...

 Today, 101 years back, was a massacre which Indians will never forget or forgive. On this day, 1516 causalities occurred when 1650 bullets were fired within a very short span of time !!! . . .  Jallianwala Bagh !!!   The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre is one of the most brutal and gory events in India’s history that resulted in the death of about 1,000 people. What accelerates the incident’s gravity is the fact that the British soldiers under Acting Brigadier Reginald Dyer had opened fire in front of a mass of innocent unarmed people. In the year 1919, the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre had occurred on the day of Baishakhi or Vaishaki, a major Punjabi festival, on April 13. Since then, on this day people of India remember the lives of numerous people who died that day and those, who remained alive to recount the horror. Here are some of the important points regarding the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre that one SHOULD  know 1. The incident took place in Jallianwala Bagh, an en...

 Nearly 4,000 African Americans Were Lynched In One 73-Year Period between 1877 and 1950, 3,959 African Americans were lynched — 700 more incidents than had ever been calculated before, black lynchings in the South occurred when unsubstantiated suspicions arose about black involvement in white society, and when African Americans actively resisted racial subordination. In 1904, a man named General Lee was accused of knocking on a white woman's door in Reevesville, South Carolina. He was lynched by a white mob. When World War I veteran William Little refused to remove his army uniform in front of a group of white men in Blakely, Georgia, in 1919, he was also attacked and lynched by a mob. When World War I veteran William Little refused to remove his army uniform in front of a group of white men in Blakely, Georgia, in 1919, he was also attacked and lynched by a mob. Many of the lynchings were justified by suspicions and lacked hard evidence. Being found guilty of lynching was such a ...

 Jiggs, the first Marine bulldog mascot.  In 1922, a formal ceremony was held to enlist a Marine that would serve for life. On October 14, 1922, Private Jiggs officially became the Marine Corps mascot and within two years had become a sergeant major.  However, bulldogs tend to have a shorter life span and he passed away in 1927 with full military honors. Jiggs II, who took his place, had a biting problem, and sadly he died soon after becoming the mascot.  Before Jiggs passed he made appearances at football games and even had a role in a movie. Since 1922, the Marines have had a bulldog as a mascot and the current bulldog is named Chesty XV named after five-time Navy Cross recipient Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller who was a marine.  While many camps have their own camp mascot, the photo below, from the USMC archives, is Jiggs, who holds the title as the first bulldog Marine mascot. Mascots help boost service members moral, so help us share Jiggs across Facebook...

 9 Predictions From The Great Seer Nostradamus That Have Seemingly Come True From the rise of Adolf Hitler to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, some of Nostradamus' predictions seem shockingly accurate. Michel de Notredame, more commonly known as Nostradamus, was a 16th-century French astrologer, physician, apothecary, and reputed seer who famously published more than 900 prophecies written in poetic quatrains. These were collected in a book titled Les Prophéties in 1555, with each set of 100 prophecies being referred to as a “Century.” While Nostradamus’ predictions may be poetic in nature, and therefore, up for interpretation, historians have found that some of these predictions appeared to have come true. To this day, some believe that Nostradamus truly did predict future events — ones that he could have had no knowledge of — while others say that his prophecies are too vague to have any real meaning. Was Nostradamus really a seer capable of predicting the future? Or, was he...

 Writings by Shaheed Bhagat Singh in Jail Kindly produced by Web Punjab Bhagat Singh, a great reader and thinker was able to break the jail conditions, even when officially not allowed he was reading and writing but finally after long hunger strike got the right of reading & writing included in Jail Manuals. Thus he maintained a note book of 404 pages and kept notes & quotes from the books he read. Here are few of these. "Ah my beloved, fill the cup that clears Todays of past Regrets and future Fears Tomorrow? _ why, Tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterdays Sevn's thousand year." *** Here with a loaf Bread beneath the Bough A flask of wine, a Book of verse-and thou Beside me signing in the widerness And wilderness in paradise now! "Ummar Khayyam" Natural and Civil Rights Man did not enter into society to become worse then he was before, but to have those rights better secured. His netural rights are the foundation of all his civil rights. Natural rights ...

ON THIS DAY 29th NOVEMBER 1942, RAWDON HUME BECAME THE HERO OF AUSTRALIAN, HE WAS A JACKEROO BEFORE ENLISTING IN THE RAAF.  Flight Sergeant Middleton was captain and first pilot of a Stirling aircraft detailed to attack the Fiat Works at Turin Rawdon Hume 'Ron' Middleton was born on 22 July 1916 at Waverley, Sydney, the great-nephew of explorer Hamilton Hume.  He was a jackeroo before enlisting in the RAAF in late 1940 and after training in Australia, Canada, and Britain, he joined No.149 Squadron, RAF. Flight Sergeant Middleton was captain and first pilot of a Stirling aircraft detailed to attack the Fiat Works at Turin on the night of the 28th November, 1942.  Great difficulty was experienced in climbing to 12,000 feet to cross the Alps, which led to excessive consumption of fuel. During the crossing Flight Sergeant Middleton had to decide whether to proceed or turn back, there being barely sufficient fuel for the return journey.  Flares were sighted ahead and he c...

 STORY BEHIND THE PICTURE: ARMY MEDIC JAMES E. CALLAHAN! REMEMBERING ONE OF OUR HEROES! Some of you may have seen this iconic picture before. The picture is of James E. Callahan was considered one of the most famous pictures taken during the Vietnam War.  Photographer Henri Huet captured a young medic trying to save the lives of his buddies in the midst of machine gun fire on 17 June 1967.  It was not just that which made this a remarkable picture, it was the look on Callahan’s face that told the entire heart wrenching story. A story of desperation and helplessness of sadness and loss. Arguably, the quintessential story of Vietnam. In the picture, Callahan was trying to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dying Solider.  The battle was three-hour battle long and took place approximately 50 miles northeast of Saigon. Callahan treated numerous fellow Soldiers injuries during the battle.  During the guerrilla ambush on the 1st Infantry Division on that day, thir...

 Most Radioactive Man' Kept Alive For 83 Days As He 'Cried Blood' And Skin Melted On September 30, 1999, Hisashi Ouchi was exposed to the highest dose of nuclear radiation in human history. A 35-year-old lab technician at the nuclear plant in Tokaimura, Japan, Ouchi was mixing a uranium solution by hand directly over an open container when he accidentally poured in too much uranium, immediately causing a violent explosion.  For the next 83 days, Ouchi suffered unimaginable agony as the radiation worked its way through his body, obliterating his DNA and causing his skin to melt off and his eyes to weep blood before he finally died.  He begged for death, doctors refused to listen and kept him alive against his will for nearly three excruciating months.  More than 20 years ago, a freak chemical reaction at a power plant in Japan left one of its technicians living in agony, kept alive by doctors as he 'cried blood' and his 'skin melted'. Hisashi Ouchi was helpin...

 ON THIS DAY, THE GERMANS BEGIN THEIR SURGE TO MOSCOW, LED BY THE FIRST ARMY GROUP, HILTERS FORCES HAD INVADED THE SOVIET UNION IN JUNE, AND BECOME ONE RELENTLESS PUSH TO RUSSIAN TERRITORY.  Hitler confided to General Bock at the time: “Had I known they had as many tanks as that, I’d have thought twice before invading.”   On October 2, 1941, the Germans begin their surge to Moscow, led by the 1st Army Group and Gen. Fedor von Bock. Russian peasants in the path of Hitler’s army employ a “scorched-earth” policy. Hitler’s forces had invaded the Soviet Union in June, and early on it had become one relentless push inside Russian territory.  The first setback came in August, when the Red Army’s tanks drove the Germans back from the Yelnya salient.  Hitler confided to General Bock at the time: “Had I known they had as many tanks as that, I’d have thought twice before invading.”  But there was no turning back for Hitler—he believed he was destined to succeed w...

 Remembering the Bangladesh Liberation War: The Struggle for Independence and the Atrocities of 1971. The Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 was a pivotal moment in the history of South Asia. The conflict was sparked by the refusal of the government of Pakistan to recognize the results of the 1970 elections in East Pakistan, where the Awami League, a Bengali nationalist party, had won a majority of seats.  The Pakistan Army launched a military operation in East Pakistan, known as Operation Searchlight, in an attempt to suppress the Bengali nationalist movement and maintain control over the region. The military operation led to widespread atrocities, including mass killings, rape, and forced displacement. The Pakistan Army targeted civilians, particularly members of the Hindu minority, in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. The Bengali nationalist movement, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his Awami League party, organized resistance against the Pakistani military and formed a provi...

 On this day 2nd November 1944. HUNGARY JOINED THE AXIS POWERS IN DECEMBER 1941, BUT AFTER SUFFERING HUGE LOSSES IN THE BATTLEFIELD, MIKLOS WITHDRAW FROM IT'S ALLIANCE,  Under this new government, the Jews of Hungary were forced into ghettos, and during the spring of 1944, over 435,000 Jews were deported to the Polish concentration camp of Auschwitz and killed. Soviet units entered the suburbs of Budapest, Hungary. Hungary joined the Axis Powers alongside Germany in December 1941, but after suffering huge losses on the battlefield, Regent of Hungary Miklós Horthy attempted to withdraw from its alliance with Germany.  In retaliation, Hitler’s army invaded Hungary in March 1944 and established a fascist government loyal to Germany.  Under this new government, the Jews of Hungary were forced into ghettos, and during the spring of 1944, over 435,000 Jews were deported to the Polish concentration camp of Auschwitz and killed. That autumn, Horthy publicly announced that Hu...

 Remembering Pascal Cleatus Poolaw, Sr., the most decorated Native American soldier in U.S. history - 4 Silver Stars, 5 Bronze Stars 3 Purple Hearts. He earned a total of 42 medals and citations.  Born on January 29, 1922, in Apache, Oklahoma, Poolaw, a full-blooded Kiowa, served with the United States Army in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.  Poolaw, his father and two brothers joined the Armed forces in 1942 during World War II. He earned his first Purple Heart when he was wounded in September 1944. While serving with the 8th Infantry Regiment's M Company near Recogne, Belgium, Poolaw's unit was engaging fire with the Germans.  He pushed his unit forward under heavy fire and hurled hand grenades at enemy machine guns, causing numerous enemy casualties and as a result of his heroic actions, many of his comrades lives were saved and the company was able to continue the attack and capture strongly defended enemy positions. Poolaw's military career di...