Audio file of speech “I beg to move, That this House welcomes the formation of a Government representing the united and inflexible resolve of the nation to prosecute the war with Germany to a victorious conclusion. On Friday evening last I re...
A speech delivered to the House of Commons by Winston Churchill on the 18th of June, 1940. Also available on Substack, where I have begun to publish my blog. https://open.substack.com/pub/projectcicero/p/6181940-their-finest-hour?r=1lmhp9&ut...
I bring to you yet another speech made by Winston Churchill, this time his speech called "Be Ye Men of Valour" and accompanying it is an audio recording via YouTube, and (courtesy of Josiah) an audio recording via the Internet Archive for those o...
This is a speech made by Winston Churchill on November 16, 1934. Adolf Hitler came to power on the 30th of January, 1933 as Chancellor and finally on August 2nd 1934 he became the Fuhrer, only four short months before Churchill made this speech. T...
On the fourth of June, 1940, Winston Churchill delivered a speech to the British House of Commons. With the Battle of Britain well underway, the Isle was being continually bombed with increasing frequency, and the worst was yet to come. German inv...
In March of 1965, the United States Air Force began conducting bombing operations in North Vietnam under the title of "Operation Rolling Thunder". The objectives were to boost the morale of the southern Vietnamese government in Saigon, to deter No...
This is 2nd Lieutenant Ernest L. "Roy" Reid, who was co-pilot of a Boeing B-17C Flying Fortress (40-2074) which was on a training mission on this day in 1941. Lieutenant Reid remarked "I climbed up into the cockpit of our plane. I discovered f...
In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved, ...
Impressions of a Pilot "Flight is freedom in its purest form,To dance with the clouds which follow a storm; To roll and glide, to wheel and spin,To feel the joy that swells within; To leave the earth with its troubles and fly,And know the warmt...
mostly this is insignifigant but I figured there would be someone who might like these and appreciate them
https://www.facebook.com/45thInfantryDivisionMuseum/ https://www.facebook.com/45thInfantryDivisionMuseum/posts/10165590790795532 You have probably heard about the famous Christmas Truce of 1914 in World War I. In many sectors along the Western...
This is a story you've likely never heard. "While working as a civilian pilot instructor at Pearl Harbor, Cornelia Fort also became one of the first witnesses to the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor. On December 7, 1941, Fort was in the air near ...
https://www.airforcemag.com/article/1291pearl/?fbclid=IwAR24qzJhyZwvoREjfbrFYiaBGKDgLAQ5E9qcxInqK04iXcBOgMwZAn7WzUM “Damn it! Those are real bullets they’re shooting. I am hit in the leg.” With these words–the last spoken by 1st Lt. William R. ...
I will post these videos in chronological order. September 11, 2001, @8:46 A.M. September 11, 2001, @9:03 A.M. September 11, 2001, @9:37 A.M. The uploaders of this video of the towers collapsing has not allowed embedding, so you'll have to ...
I thought to look at my ChessKid account to find my first online chess game. I was white. Not very impressive, I know, but special. I had only played chess with my sibling at this point, who was younger than me, and I wanted to look up the rules...
Happy Atheist Day! April 1st is generally considered to be April Fools Day, and the Bible says there is no bigger fool than one who denies the existence of God. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
The story of the Fifteenth Air Force is a very unique one for sure. Founded by Jimmy Doolittle in 1943, the mastermind of the raids on Japan by B-25 Mitchell medium bombers in 1942, it was a group of individually famous pilots that, as the Fiftent...
The North American P-51 Mustang was truly an aircraft of the Second World War. By that, I mean that it was built for the demands of that day and under circumstances of that day. It was first devised when North American Aviation approached the...
October 13, 1940: 80 years ago today... From the Royal family's website. As Princess Elizabeth, The Queen made her first public speech on 13 October 1940, with a radio address to the children of the Commonwealth, many of them living away f...
Imagine this scene: You're on Piccadilly road, in London, the year and month is November 19th, 1940. You can hear Christmas music, see children looking at toys and other possible presents in store windows, and smell the smell of Christmas foods an...
Today, 75 years ago, Japan's government and military officials came aboard the USS Missouri, anchored at Tokyo Harbor, and signed the official terms of surrender. First of all, it is quite necessary to watch the video if you are at all ab...
Today is the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII, otherwise known as either the Japanese surrender or V-J Day. Due to the Enola Gāy dropping Little Boy on Hiroshima August 6th, Russia declaring war on Japan in the wee hours of August 9th, Bocksca...
You're a resident of San Diego, California, the year is 1945, the month and day is September 22nd. The worst of the Second World War is over, with Japan's surrender surely close. You're watching the last bit of light in the western sky, feeling th...
Glenn Vernice Cunningham was born on August 4th, 1909, which is exactly 111 years ago at the time of publishing. At the age of eight, in the winter of 1918, he and his brother, Floyd, were the first to get to school to light the wood stove to hea...
