Tag: WORLD WAR II
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Never say die
Michael Caine new movie The Great Escaper. Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson reunite after 50 years for a true story about a World War II veteran who slips out of a nursing home to attend the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landing in France. Michael Caine, who is now 90 years old, co-stars with Glenda Jackson…
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Blood on his hands
Oppenheimer ‘destroyer of worlds’ Atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki annihilated more than 200,000 people, mostly civilians.
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Famous actor shot down by Nazis is still a mystery
Murder in the sky 80 years ago, June 1, 1943 Leslie Howard killed by Nazis One of the most famous movie stars of the 1930s was a passenger in a civilian airplane that was shot down by Nazi Germany off the coast of Spain in 1943. He perished along with 17 others. He was 50 years…
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As it happened!
Broadcast of an NFL game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers was interrupted by one of the most dramatic and tragic bulletins in American history.
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‘Men’s souls will be shaken…’
Look at the faces of these brave young men — many of them going to their death — and ask yourselves: Why do I shame their memory and their ultimate sacrifice with senseless violence?
Mary Saves the Day 