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 🇺🇲 WWII uncovered: Memorial Day 2023: Honoring the Heroes We Lost: Major Art Moseley, Headquarters Company, 11th Airborne Division: While the 11th Airborne was fighting on Leyte in December of 1944, monsoon rains prevented larger aircraft from resupplying the starving Paratroopers of the 511th PIR in the mountains.  Despite the dangers to himself, pilot Major Arthur "Art" Lee Moseley of Rochelle, Texas, loaded his Stinson L-5 Sentinel Piper Cub with ammunition and rations and headed into the cloud-covered mountains. Using only basic instruments, Moseley flew several "resupply missions" a day on what became known as The Moseley Milk Run while the enemy fired at him from below.  When Art, or “Phone Glider 3”, flew over friendly units, he would ask what the Paratroopers needed, then his spotter in the backseat would push supplies out of the plane. It was a life-saving campaign that kept the 511th fighting, and alive. As F-511's Lieutenant Ralph Ermatinger noted,...

 🇺🇲 WWII uncovered: D-Day 2023: Robert Lee Wolverton: Honoring the Heroes We Lost: ♠️Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lee Wolverton, of Elkins West Virginia, was among the verified 2,501 Americans to perish during Operation Overlord in Normandy on June 6, 1944. "Leading the 3rd Battalion, 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment, Wolverton was known to put the needs of his men first. He was a true soldier's soldier.' "In late November 1942, LTC Strayer s 2/506 left Camp Toccoa on foot and marched 118 miles to Atlanta. From Atlanta they took the train to Fort Benning.  Not to be outdone, 3/506th s commander, Major Wolverton (soon to become LTC), who had learned of a world record held by the Japanese for the longest march, decided he wanted to beat that record and at the same time, show up the 2/506.  Major Wolverton gave the order for 3/506 to take the train from Toccoa to Atlanta.  Then, at Atlanta, 3rd Battalion detrained and, wearing packs and carrying weapons, began a foot marc...

 🇺🇲 WWII uncovered: Honoring the Service of Medal of Honor Recipient First Lieutenant Vernon J. Baker A True American Hero: Vernon J. Baker receiv🇺🇲 WWII uncovered: Honoring the Service of Medal of Honor Recipient First Lieutenant Vernon J.  Baker A True American Hero:ed the Medal of Honor from President Bill Clin🇺🇲 WWII uncovered: Honoring the Service of Medal of Honor Recipient First Lieutenant Vernon J. Baker A True American Hero:ton in 1997.  Baker tearfully and humbly accepted the honor for courageous deeds performed over a half-century before in World War II.  His bravery had previously earned him the Distinguished Service Cross, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. "On August 1, 1944, Baker’s regiment landed at Naples, Italy to support the Fifth Army with the intent of fighting their way north and penetrating the Gothic Line. Lt.  Baker became a skilled and valued platoon leader in the first few months in Italy, building a rapport with the men who he direc...

 🇺🇲 WW II uncovered Battle of Midway: Honoring the Heroes We Lost: Bruno Peter Gaido: Bruno Peter Gaido was born in Staunton, Illinois, in 1916 to parents who had immigrated from Italy to the United States in 1914. Gaido enlisted at Naval Station Great Lakes on 11 October 1940.  Upon graduation from boot camp, he was assigned to Naval Air Station Pearl Harbor on Ford Island.  Gaido was temporarily assigned to Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) to learn to be an aviation machinist.  After several more temporary duty stints with the squadron, he was assigned permanently." According to Naval History and Heritage Command: "On Sunday morning, 1 February 1942, in the first offensive action by U.S. aircraft carriers in the Pacific war, planes from USS Enterprise (CV-6) and Yorktown (CV-5) caught the Japanese by surprise in the Marshall Islands.  Enterprise aircraft bombed targets in the northern Marshalls: Kwajalein, Wotje, and Maloelap (Tararoa).  Yorktown aircraft bom...

 🇺🇲WWII uncovered: Captain Charles Clark Kegelman: Hero of the Independence Day Raid of July 4, 1942: The first American air strike against German targets in Europe in World War II took place on July 4, 1942.  Flying six twin-engine A-20 light bombers, and joined by six other planes of the same type flown by British Royal Air Force crews of 226 Squadron, airmen of the US Eighth Air Force’s 15th Bomb Squadron attacked four German airfields in the Netherlands.  In this mission, under the guidance of the RAF's 226 Squadron, Captain Charles Clark Kegelman lead the first raid over occupied Holland.  He was the first Eighth Air Force pilot to earn the Distinguished Service Cross.  The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Captain (Air Corps) Charles Clark Kegelman, United States Army Air Forces, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operat...

 🇳🇿WWII uncovered: Anzac Day 2022: Honoring the Heroes We Lost: Pilot Officer Carlyle Gray Everiss Saves Village: No one here underestimates the contribution Carlisle Everiss made in sacrificing his own life for the sake of not just the villagers at that time but for all generations to come.  This tribute is about ensuring he will be remembered not just by Cowie but by the rest of the world, and forging lasting links with his homeland." - Cowie's Local Councillor Gerard O'Brien during the 19 May 2007 Memorial dedication. Scottish New Zealand Society chairman Peter Leslie said: "His split second decision saved the lives of countless miners and their families and it is only right that his actions should be recognised. On 19 May 2007 a memorial commemorating the young pilot’s sacrifice was unveiled in Cowie.  The bronze bust of Everiss was erected atop a rock plinth after £12,000 was raised by local residents.  Even though some 66 years had passed - Pilot Officer Carl...

 🇺🇲WWII uncovered: Honoring the Service of Wild Bill Guarnere of Easy Company: Staff Sergeant William J. "Wild Bill" Guarnere Sr., of Philadelphia Pennsylvania, enlisted in the US Army Airborne on August 31, 1942.  At 19 years old, Bill entered the service as a Private and began training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia.  He soon became a NCO with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army. According to "Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story", the biography co-authored by William J. "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron:  In December of 1944 Bill Bill was hospitalized for a broken leg.  Nothing was holding this hero back as he subsequently broke out of the hospital, covered his cast with black shoe polish and returned to the front lines with his brothers.  This was a risk he was willing to take. ...

 🇺🇲 WWII uncovered: In Memoriam: Honoring the Heroes We Lost in 2022: Clarence Smoyer  the "Hero of Cologne: Please join us in honoring Clarence E. Smoyer of Allentown Pennsylvania who passed away on September 30, 2022 at the age of 99 years old. Clarence left home at the age of 19 to join the US Army. "Credited with the title "The Hero of Cologne," Smoyer served as a tank gunner with E Company, 32nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored "Spearhead" Division."  "On March 6, 1945, Clarence and the crew defeated a German Panther Tank in the key Battle of Cologne, during which Clarence is said to have fired the first shot.  Film footage shows the moment when Smoyer, inside a Sherman tank, aimed at a building and not a German tank to stop their advance, saving the lives of German soldiers on board." Following the war Clarence returned to Pennsylvania and worked as a Plant Supervisor for Waylite in Bethlehem for 40 years, retiring in 1983.  Clarence an...

 🇺🇲WWII uncovered: Honoring the Service of Hershel Williams the Last Living Medal of Honor Recipient of WWII and Hero of Iwo Jima on the Anniversary of his Passing: Please take a moment to join us in honoring Chief Warrant Officer Four Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams who passed away on June 29, 2022 at the Hershel "Woody" Williams VA Medical Center in Huntington West Virginia. Born on October 2, 1923, Williams was 98 years old at the time of his passing. Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams, of Quiet Dell West Virginia, enlisted with the Civilian Conservation Corps before his 18th birthday. Woody had aspirations of being a Marine.  After the Invasion at Pearl Harbor he tried to enlist for active service but was under the age of 18.  Upon reaching his 18th birthday he was then again turned down by not meeting the height requirement.  Herschel was only 5'6 tall. After the height regulations were changed, he successfully enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserv...

 🇺🇲 WWII uncovered: Honoring the Heroes We Lost: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole: Hero of the Battle of Carentan Falls During Operation Market Garden. Today we honor Lieutenant Colonel Robert George Cole, of Fort Sam Houston Texas, who was fatally wounded on September 18, 1944 during Operation Market Garden. Robert Cole, Hero of the Battle of Carentan, parachuted into Normandy with the 3rd Battalion of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division on June 6, 1944.  According to the National Medal of Honor Museum, "The task of securing Carentan was assigned to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole.  After determining that there were no other viable approach paths, Cole realized that the Carentan Causeway (Highway N-13) – a raised and exposed road surrounded by flooded marshland – was the only way to reach the town.   Even worse the men of the 3rd battalion would need to cross over 4 narrow bridges – one of which had been dropped into the Douve River by...

 SERGEANT MEYER (MIKE) LEVIN, The Hero Who Gave His Life To Protect Our Country In WWII: Sgt Meyer (Mike) Levin, WWII B-17 Flying Fortress bombardier, pilot, and war hero, was born on June 5, 1916,  in Rochester, NY to Jewish parents, Leah and Samuel Levin.  The family moved to Brooklyn when Meyer was 14 years old.  His father was a tailor and clothing inspector for the Navy; they lived at 1504 E 33d St. and 3210 Church Ave.   After he graduated from Brooklyn Technical H.S. (1934) (later became Brooklyn Tech's first WWII war hero), and enrolled in Brooklyn Engineering School for Aviation where he graduated second highest in his class.   He spent the next three years trying to find work in the aircraft industry, but was continually denied a job due to his Jewish heritage.   He then decided to enlist in the military. Three days after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, he flew on a mission with pilot Colin Kelly against the Japanese navy....

 A LITTLE GUN HISTORY IN 1929  In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. >From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated In 1911, Turkey established gun control.  From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.  Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.  China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.  Guatemala established gun control in 1964.  From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.  Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated...

 🇸🇪 🇵🇱 In WWII, Sweden may have remained officially neutral, but Swedes, well . . . Everyone who knows a thing or two about that war has heard of Raoul Wallenberg, the rescuer of Hungarian Jews, or Count Bernadotte and his white buses ferrying concentration camp inmates to safety.  Yet, more Swedes were on the light side of the force. Take Swedish volunteers in Finland, invaded by the USSR.  Take all these good souls who accepted the Jews smuggled out of Denmark in their homes. Take charming Elna Gistedt. This operetta singer came to Warsaw in 1922 on a two-week contract, fell madly in love with a Polish businessman, married him and stayed for good.  By the time WWII broke out in 1939, she’d gotten head over heels with the country too, which loved Elna back for that lyric soprano and charming personality of hers.  And then, with the German occupation of Poland and Warsaw, the soprano found herself living in a city taken over by the Sopranos. The German mobst...

 🇬🇧WWII uncovered: Spitfire Pilot Jackie Sorour Moggridge of the Air Transport Auxillary. Jackie Sorour Moggridge, of Pretoria South Africa, sits at the controls of a Spitfire in September 1944" - IWM. Prior to the outbreak of World War II Jackie relocated to Witney, Oxfordshire to obtain her Commercial Pilot's license.  After being turned down by the RAF as a pilot she joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force.  Jackie was then recruited to the ATA (Air Transport Auxillary) by Pauline Gower in July 1940.  Moggridge was the youngest female pilot at the time and flew more than 1,500 hours with the Air Transport Authority.  Jackie obtained her pilot's license at age 15 and was a skilled pilot being proficient with 38 models of aircraft. Jackie married Captain Reg Moggridge of the Royal Engineers on January 12, 1945. The couple had two daughters.  In 1953 she was one of only five women to receive full RAF Wings.  Jackie continued her aviation career and in...

 🇺🇲WWII uncovered: Robert Montgomery from the Silver Screen to D-Day: Robert Montgomery, of Beacon New York, joined the World War II effort prior to US involvement.  Montgomery put his acting career on hold and volunteered with the American Field Service in London.  The Oscar nominated actor did his bit by driving evacuation ambulances in France.  He returned to the United States after Operation Dynamo, otherwise known as the Evacuation of Dunkirk.  According to Naval History and Heritage Command records: "Upon returning to the US Robert applied for a commission in the US Naval Reserve.  Montgomery was sent to the Intelligence Section in the map room of the US Naval Attache office in London where he worked as an assistant.  He then returned to the US where he was assigned to set up a Naval Operations room in the White House." "In 1942 Montgomery saw action at Noumea, Espiritu Santo, Guadalcanal and New Georgia.  He served as Operations Officer a...

 🇵🇱 WWII uncovered: Polish Air Ace Bolesław Michal Gładych Serves with the RAF and the US Army Air Forces. Polish Air Force Academy graduate Bolesław Michal Gładych did his first tour with the No. 303 Squadron RAF.  After a combat crash of his spitfire in June of 1941, Gładych returned to operations in October 1941 and was transferred to 302 Squadron "City of Poznan' in July 1942, joining it after recuperative leave in December 1942.  By May he was a Flight Commander and had been promoted to Flight Lieutenant." - American Air Museum in Britain. After his second tour with the RAF Gładych was recruited by US Major Francis Gabreski and was assigned to Gabreski's 61st Fighter Squadron.  Upon learning of his posting, Polish authorities temporarily expelled Gładych from the Polish Air Force from June to October 1944.  Gładych claimed 10 ariel victories while serving with the 56th Fighter Group, and a total of 17 throughout the war." After the war Gładych relocated t...

 On August 1, 1943, US Army Air Forces bombed oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania.   It was part of the Allies’ oil campaign, to cut off Germany’s petroleum supply during World War II. In June 1942 a squad of 13 B-24 Liberators attacked Ploesti, Romania, which provided Germany and the Axis powers with about 30% of their oil.   The attack inflicted minimal damage, but encouraged Germany and Romania to better defend the refineries.   They set up anti-aircraft defenses, many hidden in haystacks, railroad cars, and fake buildings.   They also had five squadrons totaling nearly 300 planes ready to defend Ploesti.   These combined defenses made it one of the most heavily defended Axis targets in Europe. The Allies planned another attack for August 1, 1943.  The attack, dubbed Operation Tidal Wave, would target nine oil refineries around Ploesti.   It was carried out by the Ninth and Eighth Air Force, totaling 1,751 aircrew flying 178...

 An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger): During earlier food shortages in Ireland, including in 1822 and 1831, charitable bodies had been set up to provide relief at a local level, and some of these were revived following the first failure of the potato crop in 1845. But after 1846 donations came from all over the world, even from people who had no connection with Ireland. This help cut across religious, national and economic differences. It came from people who were themselves poor, including former slaves in the Caribbean, Native Americans and prisoners in Britain. Heads of states were also involved—Queen Victoria, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and the president of the United States. Extensive fund-raising was carried out in Ireland by all sections of society.  Resident landlords were generally involved, although many absentees were criticised for their indifference. Even children raised funds: for example, pupils in a school in Armagh City collected for the local poor in 1847....

 GETTING DOWN TO BRASS TACKS: NOTES ON JACK SMITH, DONALD TRUMP, AND THE FATAL HEAD WOUND – PROPHETIC HISTORY IN REAL TIME OR SEDENTARY OVERREACH? SCRIPTURE. “And the dragon gave [the great beast] his power and his throne and great authority.  ‘I saw one of his heads which seemed to have a fatal wound, but his fatal wound was healed;’ and the entire earth followed after the beast in amazement.  They fell down and worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; they also worshiped the beast, saying, ‘Who is like (as great as) the beast, and who is able to wage war against him?’ And the beast was given a mouth (the power of speech), uttering great things and arrogant and blasphemous words, and he was given freedom and authority to act and to do as he pleased for forty-two months (three and a half years).” – REVELATION 13:2-5, AMP KEY TERMS. Great Beast; Dragon; Fatal Wound; Worshiped; Mouth; Blasphemous QUOTATION. “In the Last Days religious seduction will ...