Tag: Allied Forces
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Casablanca Opens in Theaters on this Day in History! 26 November 1942
“A DRAMA THAT LIFTS YOU RIGHT OUT OF YOUR SEAT” by LCDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.), ©2016, blogging at The Jaghunter (Nov. 26, 2016) — JAG HUNTER here: Only eighteen days following the start of OPERATION TORCH, whereupon my dad–Navy Doctor, Lieutenant Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, Jr. and his shipmates in USS COLE (DD –…
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D-Day + 72 Years
HUGE LOSSES PRECEDED VICTORY IN NORMANDY by Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Col., USA (Ret.), World War II Veteran, ©2016, (Jun. 6, 2016) — Even before D-Day, in April and May 1944, the Allied air forces lost nearly 12,000 men and over 2,000 aircraft in operations which paved the way for D-Day. On D-Day American deaths…
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Faith vs. Trust or God vs. Government, Part III
IRRESPONSIBILITY, NARCISSISM, RACISM…CAN AMERICA DO BETTER? by Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Col., USA (Ret.), ©2016 (May 4, 2016) — Yesterday’s Part II ended when FDR’s overreaching and illegal Lend-lease policies resulted in the torpedoing of the USS Reuben James with the loss of 115 sailors KIA was the most notorious of the incidents before the U.S.…
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A Perspective on War
VICTIM OR EXECUTIONER? by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2014 (Dec. 5, 2014) — Reading Rick Atkinson’s account of World War II on the European continent, titled The Guns at Last Light, I am struck by how different subsequent wars have been and how public attitudes on warfare have changed. Given that the American people have apparently embraced…
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Necessary Collateral Damage?
OF COURAGE, COWARDICE, AND POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY by Don Fredrick, ©2012, blogging at Colony14 (Jun. 29, 2012) — Like many others, I have mixed emotions on the Supreme Court’s ruling that ObamaCare is constitutional—and is so only by means of the convoluted logic of Chief Justice John Roberts that says the individual mandate is not really…