Showing posts with label World War 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War 2. Show all posts
Friday, July 3, 2015

Second World War tank and anti-aircraft gun found hidden in basement of villa in Germany

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By Melanie Hall, Berlin ( The Telegraph ) German soldiers grappled for nine hours with an unusual task: trying to remove a Second Wor...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

US bomber crew shot down over Japan were dissected while ALIVE in horrific WW2 experiments: Japanese university acknowledges full details of atrocity 70 years on

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By Elaine O'flynn For Mailonline ( Daily Mail ) A Japanese university has opened a museum acknowledging that its staff dissected d...
Monday, March 18, 2013

German pilot in WWII spared an American B-17 pilot over Germany only to reunite 40 years later and become fishing buddies

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( War History Online ) The pilot glanced outside his cockpit and froze. He blinked hard and looked again, hoping it was just a mirage. But ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Hitler’s Pope, Nazi Crimes, and The New York Times

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By Father Gordon J. MacRae New evidence unmasks a myth that Pope Pius XII was “Hitler’s Pope:’ and a shocking failure of The New York ...
Saturday, November 17, 2012

The Twinkie Changed For Good Thanks To World War II

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By Dina Spector ( Business Insider ) Hostess Brands announced yesterday it was shutting down operations after failing to reach an agr...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Three War Veteran Dies, Featured in Movie We Were Soldiers

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Actor Sam Elliott played Basil L. Plumley in the film We Were Soldiers COLUMBUS, Ga. ( AP via Boston.com ) — Basil L. Plumley, a r...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

On Loudmouthed Tough Guys in the Church

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By Ann Barnhardt at Barnhardt.biz: To open this post I wrote up this whole brilliant allegory about how sometimes you gotta be Paul Sc...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Why Just Execution is a Truly Merciful Act

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Posted by Ann Barnhardt - April 17, AD 2012 8:20 PM MST Fr. Z over at WDTPRS.com (What Does the Prayer Really Say) posted this on Sunday...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

Hitler's top secret stealth bomber

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Posted on June 26, 2009, 1:32 PM | Brian Saint-Paul ( Inside Catholic ) Surprising to most, the U.S. military's space-age B-2 Spirit wa...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Vatican planned to move to Portugal if Nazis captured wartime Pope

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Secret plans were drawn up by the Vatican to elect a new Pope and flee to a friendly country should Hitler have carried out his threat to ki...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Holocaust Survivors Visit Benedict XVI

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Express Gratitude for Role of Church in Saving Their Lives By Jesús Colina VATICAN CITY, JUNE 18, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- Benedict XVI received...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Holocaust Survivors to Thank Pope

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Foundation Events Aim to Shine Light on Historical Facts NEW YORK, JUNE 9, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- A New York-based organization will bring a g...