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The Terrible Story Of Col. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Honoring Him For His Services During WWII.

 The Terrible Story Of Col. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Honoring Him For His Services During WWII. Col. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, born on December 17, 1874, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a prominent figure in the United States Marine Corps during the early 20th century. Known for his extraordinary skills in hand-to-hand combat, Biddle left a lasting legacy as a tough and fearless military officer. During his service in World War II, Col. Biddle was assigned to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina. It was there that he became famous for his unique training methods. Biddle would challenge his trainee Marines to engage in hand-to-hand combat with him using their bayonets, demonstrating his exceptional expertise in close-quarters combat. The incident where Col. Biddle was surrounded by bayonets occurred in 1943. This event showcased his extraordinary confidence and skill as a combat instructor.  He fearlessly ordered the trainee Marines to atte...

GERMAN SOLDIER HELMET AND SKULL HAVE BEEN UNCOVERED WITH A STRANGE LOOK

 German Soldier Helmet And Skull Have Been Uncovered With A Strange Look. A skull of a killed German soldier excavated by Russian medal detectors or archeologists still having its M40/M42 helmet on it is shown here photographed above.  You can see the chinstrap to the helmet is onto of the left eye socket which could indicate this unlucky Wehrmacht soldier was killed with a very powerful round or artillery fire.  But, it could just be it was moved after being under the ground for over 70 years. All across the former Eastern Front unidentified remains litter the land with over an estimated 200,000 still unidentified.  Over 2,000,000 German and Soviet soldiers died there during the fighting and an interesting fact is 4 out of 5 German soldier on the Eastern Front never returned home.  Many of these Soviet and German soldiers had family's, loved ones, wives, girlfriends, brothers and sisters,  fathers and mothers, which all would never know how their brother, ...

MARINE KILLED IN WWII FOUND, TO BE BURIED IN BEAVER VALLEY NEXT WEEK

 Marine killed in WWII found, to be buried in Beaver Valley next week By Larry Miller. Marine Sergeant Fae Moore is coming home. The Chadron-area Marine was killed nearly 73 years ago in the amphibious assault on the Pacific atoll of Tarawa during World War II. More than 1,000 U.S.  servicemen died in the 76-hour battle with Japanese forces to take control of a strategic airfield.  In June 2015, a nonprofit organization called History Flight notified the Department of Defense that they had discovered the remains of 35 servicemen on Tarawa.  One of them was Fae Moore. Fae Verlin Moore was born in Chadron, Nebraska on May 16, 1920, the youngest of Alonzo and Mary Moore’s 10 children – six boys and four girls. The family farmed in Beaver Valley east of Chadron during the 1920s until moving to the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1931.  Fae attended Beaver Valley School and completed the 8th Grade before leaving school to work and help his family during the “Dirty Thirties...

THE HORRIFYING MURDER OF THE FRENCH JEWISH GIRL ANNIE NAKACHE IN GAS CHAMBER WWII

12 August 1941 | French Jewish girl Annie Nakache was born in Constantine (Algeria). She lived in Toulouse. A daughter of a swimmer Alfred Nakache. In January 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz with her parents. She was murdered in a gas chamber with her mother Paule. Here are some photos of Auschwitz prisoners murdered in gas chamber: Leave your thought in the comment section below.

THE HEROIC STORY OF THE U.S. MARINE CORPS " CLYDE A. THOMASON OF ATLANTA GEORGIA A SERGEANT IN THE U.S. MARINE

  Clyde A. Thomason of Atlanta, Georgia, a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on August 17, 1942, on Makin Island. Thomason enlisted in the Marine Corps in December 1934 and was honorably discharged in 1939 upon the expiration of his enlistment after serving on the USS Augusta.  He re-enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve in January 1942 following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He asked for action, and when Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson was organizing his famous Raiders, Thomason volunteered. Because he was so tall, 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m), and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg), he had to ask for a height waiver to get into the Raiders. He trained in California before going to the Pacific battlefields in April for duty with the 2nd Raider Battalion. On August 17, 1942, Thomason led an assault in the Makin Islands against the Japanese. He walked up to a house that concealed a Japanese sniper, forced the door, and shot ...

THE EXECUTION OF EDGAR BINDON FOR THE MURDER OF HIS GIRLFRIEND AND A FAILED SUICIDE ATTEMPT

 Edgar Bindon - girlfriend murder and a failed suicide attempt. 19 year old Edgar Lewis George Bindon shot his neighbour and estranged girlfriend, 20 year old Maud Mulholland in Cowbridge Road in Cardiff on the night of Sunday the 9th of November, 1913. Bindon was a well known and talented amateur footballer.  Maud’s parents didn’t approve of the relationship.  Maud was a shop assistant and sang in the church choir. She lived next door to Bindon at 80 Theobald Road, Cardiff, South Wales and the couple were rarely seen apart. He was very possessive and infatuated with Maud but she found this relationship stifling and so she soon ended it and started seeing Bernard Campion. On the evening of the 9th of November, she had been with Bernard and at around 10 p.m. she offered to accompany him to the tram stop to catch his ride home.  Maud started her own homeward journey along a side street before turning into Cowbridge Road.  Here Bindon caught up with her and started...

THE EXECUTION OF WILLIAM JOHN DAVIES FOR MURDERING HIS BELOVE EX-GIRLFRIEND ( ANOTHER

  William John Davies - another jealousy murder. 30 year old Davies, a waiter, was in a long term relationship with 37 year old Lucy Wilson and they had lived together for four years at 34 Terminus Place in Eastbourne, Sussex.   At the beginning of March 1949, Lucy accused Davies of having an affair with another women, which he denied.  On Saturday the 5th of March he ordered her out of his home and she left.  The following day Davies went to Campbell’s restaurant at 186 Terminus Place where Lucy worked and begged her to return, which she refused to do. On Tuesday the 8th of March Davies went to the restaurant again.  One of the cooks, Jean Copeland, saw Davies follow Lucy upstairs where then got into a physical struggle.  She then saw Davies stab Lucy in the head and eye.  Jean saw Lucy collapse and heard Davies say “What have I done to you, Luce?” Lucy died in hospital on Wednesday the 23rd of March and the post-mortem showed that the knife woun...

THE HORRIBLE AND BRUTALITY FOUND IN THE BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMP

 Buchenwald concentration camp Buchenwald was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg [de] hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany's 1937 borders. Many actual or suspected communists were among the first internees. Prisoners came from all over Europe and the Soviet Union—Jews, Poles and other Slavs, the mentally ill and physically disabled, political prisoners, Romani people, Freemasons, and prisoners of war. There were also ordinary criminals and sexual deviants.  All prisoners worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories. The insufficient food and poor conditions, as well as deliberate executions, led to 56,545 deaths at Buchenwald of the 280,000 prisoners who passed through the camp and its 139 subcamps. The camp gained notoriety when it was liberated by the United States Army in April 1945; Allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower visited one of its subcamps. From A...

THE ENCLOSED BY AN L-SHAPED MASONRY WALL AREA WAS PARTIALLY "THE HIGH AND NEXT TO A HOSPITAL".

 During the Dachau liberation reprisals, German SS troops were killed by U.S. soldiers and concentration camp prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945, during World War II. It is unclear how many SS guards were killed in the incident, but most estimates place the number killed at around 35–50.  In the days before the camp's liberation, SS guards at the camp had forced 7,000 inmates on a death march that resulted in the death of many from exposure and shooting. When Allied soldiers liberated Dachau, they were variously shocked, horrified, disturbed, and angered at finding the massed corpses of prisoners, and by the combativeness of some of the remaining guards who allegedly fired on them. Sparks account Lt. Col. Sparks, a battalion commander of the 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division wrote about the incident. Sparks watched as about 50 German prisoners captured by the 157th Infantry Regiment were confined in an area that had been used for storing...

THE TERRIBLE EXECUTION OF FREDERICK REYNOLDS FOR THE BRUTAL MURDER OF HIS MISTRESS

 Frederick Reynolds – for the murder of his mistress. 39 year old bookmaker, Frederick Reynolds was convicted of the murder of 40 year old Mrs. Beatrice Greenberg on Tuesday the 17th of December 1946. Reynolds came to trial at the Old Bayley before Mr. Justice Atkinson on the 7th of February 1947.  Reynolds testified that he had known Beatrice for 13 years and three years later she had become his mistress.   His councel, Mr. Eric Cuddon, asked him if his wife knew about the relationship with Beatrice, to which he replied that she did, as both women had worked together at the same factory in Highbury in 1938.  In court was Beatrice’s husband, Sidney Greenberg, who stood up and shouted “That is a damned lie, Sir.  My wife never worked at Highbury before the War.”  Sidney was told to be quiet and sit down by an usher.   On the evening of 17th of December Reynolds had been drinking heavily and had walked to Beatrice’s flat at 40 Avenell Mansions in Avenell...

The Terrible Battle of Iwo Jima " The Battle was Finally Declared Secured On March 26, 1945".

 Iwo Jima was finally declared secured on March 26, 1945. When the battle concluded, nearly 7,000 Marines had lost their lives and another 20,000 were wounded.  The strategic importance of the island, and the enduring image of Marines raising the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi, cemented the Battle of Iwo Jima as one of the great victories in the history of the Marine Corps.  The Secretary of the Navy, James V. Forrestal, who watched the flag-raising from the beach, famously remarked “the raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.” U.S. Marine Corps First Lieutenant Harry Linn Martin of Bucyrus, Ohio was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on Iwo Jima on March 26, 1945.   A few minutes before dawn on the morning of March 26, the day the Iwo campaign officially closed, the Japanese launched a concentrated attack and penetrated the Marine lines in the area where 1st Lt Martin's platoon was bivo...

THE TERRIBLE STORY OF THE GERMAN SOLDIERS WHO HUNG HIMSELF AT THE END OF THE WAR

 German soldier who hung himself at the end of the war Ray Cunneen’s unit came across this German soldier in the woods. He had evidently hung himself when Germany surrendered, 1945 During the final weeks of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe, many civilians, government officials, and military personnel throughout Germany and German-occupied Europe committed suicide.  In addition to high-ranking Nazi officials like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Philipp Bouhler, and Martin Bormann, many others chose suicide rather than accept the defeat of Germany.[1] Motivating factors included fear of reprisals and atrocities by the Allies and especially the Red Army, Nazi propaganda glorifying suicide as preferable to defeat, and despondency after the suicide of Adolf Hitler.  For example, in May 1945, up to 1,000 people killed themselves before and after the entry of the Red Army into the German town of Demmin. In Berlin alone more than 7,000 suicides were report...

THE TERRIBLE STORY IF SHAHEED BHAGAT SINGH "THE JAIL CONDITION".

 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 ...

THE HORRIFYING AND LETHAL EXPERIMENTS OF UNIT 731, THE LABORATORY OF DEATH

 The Horrifying And Lethal Experiments Of Unit 731, The Laboratory Of Death In World War Two, Japan created a top secret project named Unit 731 which sought to learn more about human physiology. Officially called the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army, Unit 731's methods were completely unethical - and that's putting it lightly. Brutal human experimentations were conducted in Unit 731 that resemble things straight out of a horror movie. It shocks the mind to think that these experiments really happened, but indeed they did. Japan committed war crimes throughout WWII that are cruel and horrifying. They used grisly torture methods on countless victims that ranged from bamboo torture to cannibalism. However, the worst methods occurred in Unit 731. Located in Manchuria, most of the test subjects for Unit 731 were Chinese. By the end of the war, as surrender became imminent, the Japanese involved with Unit 731 attempted to destroy all evidence...

THE EXECUTION OF WILLIAM SMILEY HE WAS HANGED TO DEATH FOR THE ARMOY MURDERS..

 William Smiley (or Smylie)  was hanged to death for the Armoy murders. Sisters Margaret and Sarah Macauley were spinsters, aged 48 and 43 respectively, who lived on the family farm at Mullaghduffbeg near Armoy in Co. Antrim with their brothers, Andrew and Leslie.  On the afternoon of Thursday the 24th of May 1928, both sisters were murdered in the farmhouse kitchen, by shotgun blasts to the head fired at close range. The farm employed two labourers, 33 year old William Smiley and Thomas McCaughan, plus a maid servant, Kate Murdoch.  All three went to the farmhouse for lunch at around 12.50 p.m.  Sarah Macauley took lunch out to her brothers who were repairing fences, leaving Margaret alone in the house. After lunch Kate Murdoch returned to her duties and at about 2 p.m. heard a shot ring out.  She was not alarmed by this as it was not an uncommon sound in the countryside.  She returned to the farmhouse about an hour later to find the Macauley sisters ...

The Laha Massacre, 3rd - 17th February 1942. (The massacre of 300 Australian & Dutch PoW's)

  (Photo: A mass grave found near Laha airstrip, Ambon. The grave contained the remains of 71 Australian servicemen.  Ambon was captured by the Japanese forces in February 1942 and the Australian barracks at Tan Tui became a PoW camp for the remainder of the Australian forces on the Island. Conditions were poor in the PoW camp and nearly 75 per cent of the PoWs died before liberation in September 1945.  (AWM)) Two graves, about five metres apart, were dug in a wooded area near the village of Tawiri adjacent to Laha airstrip on Ambon Island, The graves were circular in shape, six metres in diameter and three metres deep. Soon after 18:00hrs, a group of Australian and Dutch PoW's, their arms tied securely behind them, were brought to the site. The first PoW was made to kneel at the edge of the grave and the execution, by samurai beheading, was carried out by a Warrant Officer Kakutaro Sasaki.  The next four beheadings were the privilege of eager crew-members of the Jap...