"The 82nd Airborne Division has seen some of the American Army's most elite soldiers pass through its ranks. The history of the glorious division has been forged by thousands of anonymous paratroopers, always prepared to jump in extreme situations and to accomplish their objective on the ground, whatever the conditions. From the trenches of the Somme ( World War I) to the Iraqi desert (2nd Gulf War), ...

"Recent years have offered no more human story than Dr. Seagrave's Burma Surgeon, the account of his medical mission in the jungle wilds and his experiences in the battle of Burma. Now in this new book, he tells what happened to himself and his hospital unit after the retreat with Stilwell. Safe at last in India, survivors of an epic struggle, bereft of home and family, the doctor and his nurses felt ...

Documents the achievements of Britain's Special Operations Executives and the United States Office of Strategic Services in World War II, as culled from interviews, diaries, letters, and first-person accounts, citing their works against the Gestapo and in such areas as the Balkans, the Burmese jungle, and Japan. Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index. xii, 287 pages ; 24 cm

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 130, Part 2. Release date, 03/23/1933. Jewish War Veterans parade in New York City to protest Nazi persecution of German Jews. The men are nicely dressed and some wear American flag pins in their lapels or carry American flags. There is a large crowd both watching and marching. Aerial view of two groups marching. MS of people watching the parade. Other parts of the newsreel ...

Narration. U.S. War Dept. Misc. 1170. Different houses of worship. People pray, sing. Ministers, priests and rabbis. American soldiers read the Bible. “Battles are won by military power, wars are won by spiritual power.” Military chaplains present communion wafers to soldiers kneeling. Army chaplain provides a group of soldiers with cigarettes, magazines, and letters. They smile and laugh. Chaplain ...

Men unload barrels from an American ship in the port of New Caledonia, a French territory in the South Pacific. An American soldier patrols the area. 01:23:00 An American camp in New Caledonia. Soldiers march through the countryside and then dig communication trenches. The March of Time story cards indicate that these are American troops but their helmets look British. 01:25:29 A training exercise ...

Translated from the Japanese. 1 v : ill. ; 23 cm

"Een jonge vrouw belandt aan de frontlinie tijdens de Japanse invasie van Tarakan, een klein olie-eiland voor de kust van Borneo. Het waargebeurde verhaal van Mila Herman, die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog vermist raakte en doodverklaard werd. 75 jaar later reconstrueert haar kleinzoon David haar verhaal, zich baserend op jarenlang onderzoek. Een liefdevol monument voor Mila Herman en haar moedige ...

"From the deserts of Sudan to the jungles of Colombia, and from the streets of Belfast to the mountains of Kurdistan, paramilitaries have appeared in violent conflicts in very different settings. Paramilitaries are generally depicted as irregular armed organizations that carry out acts of violence against civilians on behalf of a state. In doing so, they undermine the state's monopoly of legitimate ...

"This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, ...

"Wayne Andersen's expansive text, written in clear prose, accounts for all of modern Germany's major artists--the Impressionists Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth, the Expressionists Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel, and Max Pechstein, the post-World War I George Grosz, Otto Dix, and Rudolf Schlichter, and the less classifiable Max Beckmann, Paula Modersohn-Becker, ...

In de zomer van 1944 was niet alleen Normandië het toneel van de oorlog tegen een genadeloze bezetter. Ook in de Oost leverden de geallieerden strijd. In Nederlands Nieuw Guinea vochten Amerikanen, Australiërs en Nederlanders zij aan zij tegen de Japanners. KAIS is het verhaal van een verkenningsmissie boven de Vogelkop die dramatisch afloopt. De bemanning van een Amerikaanse bommenwerper crasht ...

New Guinea Skies is the personal story of a World War II fighter pilot stationed in the South Pacific. Built around the framework of the author's 1943-44 war diary, this book chronicles his life from boyhood on an Indiana farm through pilot training and into wartime action as a member of the Thirty-ninth Fighter Squadron - the first squadron equipped with the P-38 Lightning aircraft that could challenge ...

This pathbreaking work of oral history captures for the first time ever - in either Japanese or English - the remarkable story of ordinary Japanese people during World War II. In a sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya and Theodore Cook take us from the Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese homefront during the inhuman raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, offering the first glimpses of ...

Hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces launched a devastating attack on U.S. troops in the Philippines. In May 1942, after months of battle with no reinforcements and no hope of victory, the remaining American forces, holed up on the tiny island of Corregidor, suffered a humiliating defeat, and 11,000 fighting men became prisoners of war in the largest American capitulation since ...

The five Frieder brothers from Cincinnati, Ohio (Philip, Henry, Alex, Morris, and Herbert) made their fortune in cigars, which they manufactured in the Philippines. The brothers took turns managing the cigar production. Every two years, one of the brothers (excluding Henry) and his family would relocate to their home at 44 Brixton Hill, Santa Mesa, Manila.The Frieder brothers were passionate poker ...

Boy playing on rings, jungle gym. 01:01:02 Swimming, playing in water. 01:03:11 Hana's brother Jiri on bench eating. Fuchs family dressed well, preparing for departure. Eating at table, garden, playing cards (game called Marias). 01:03:55 Older woman? 01:04:06 at restaurant. 01:05:03 CUs of girls. Hana with tennis racket. 01:06:14 Hana's parents Oskar Fuchs and Rosa (Krasa) Fuchs, in garden. 01:06:27 ...

Ibu Syafiah Paturusi (1932) heeft haar vader en broer verloren bij de zuiveringsacties van Nederlandse militairen in het dorp Bulukumba in januari 1947, waar vele doden vielen. Haar vader was een vaccinateur, die voor de Nederlanders werkte; haar broer een vrijheidsstrijder, die slecht uitgerust was: ‘Ze gebruiken alleen scherpe bamboe om te vechten.’ Toen haar vader gevraagd werd te verraden waar ...

Ibu Syafiah Paturusi (1932) heeft haar vader en broer verloren bij de zuiveringsacties van Nederlandse militairen in het dorp Bulukumba in januari 1947, waar vele doden vielen. Haar vader was een vaccinateur, die voor de Nederlanders werkte; haar broer een vrijheidsstrijder, die slecht uitgerust was: ‘Ze gebruiken alleen scherpe bamboe om te vechten.’ Toen haar vader gevraagd werd te verraden waar ...

Propaganda film about the background of World War II (Orientation Film No. 1). Opening shot, AV Hoover Dam. CUs of New York Times newspaper headlines regarding The League of Nations, Tariff Act, Isolationism and Prohibition. Narrator compares free democratic system to the Nazi regime. 01:30:28 Books freely read in USA, including Mein Kampf. 01:30:34 Scenes of German bookburnings in Berlin. Optical ...