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Editor's picks from the web 06/11/2017
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Shared by Elgin Westbrook

Image from ArGunners Magazine
https://argunners.com/the-last-flight-of-boris-lazarev

The Last Flight of Boris Lazarev

Boris Lazarev was a Soviet World War II Pilot who was shot down in February, 1943 by the Luftwaffe. His body and aircraft were recovered in a swamp in 1998 in a mummified condition.

Warning! Some of these images may be disturbing!

https://argunners.com/the-last-flight-of-boris-lazarev

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Editor's picks from the web 05/28/2017
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Shared by Klara

Screen shot of site http://wartraveller.com/

An AMAZING new (to me) site!

This site in Ljubljana, Slovenia has just been translated into English. To bad for me because Iy cost me hours of looking and readin. These are more than 230 WWII destinations with images and explanations. All the WWII sites in Europe that we really wish we could visit!

http://wartraveller.com/

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Editor's picks from the web 05/14/2017
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Shared by Linda Tillery

John Kerry recently visited Hiroshima

This is not new BUT a subject that some people keep wringing their hands over. No one explains it better than Victor. Read the whole article at TownHall! or click the image

The Horrors of Hiroshima in Context

By Victor Davis Hanson Posted: Apr 21, 2016 12:01 AM

"The horrific bombings are inexplicable without examining the context in which they occurred.

In 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill insisted on the unconditional surrender of Axis aggressors. The bomb was originally envisioned as a way to force the Axis leader, Nazi Germany, to cease fighting. But the Third Reich had already collapsed by July 1945 when the bomb was ready for use, leaving Imperial Japan as the sole surviving Axis target." continue reading

For more on the subject see:
The Emperor's Reluctant Warrior
"An Invasion Not Found in the History Books"
and
Trinity, "The Destroyer of Worlds"

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Editor's picks from the web 04/30/2017
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Shared by Tony Welch

"More photos of color LIFE on and around the Ulithi Atoll."

Amazing large group of pictures of Ulithi in 1945

"Its existence kept secret throughout the war, the US naval base at Ulithi was for a time the world’s largest naval facility."

BY GEORGE SPANGLER

"In March 1945, 15 battleships, 29 carriers, 23 cruisers, 106 destroyers, and a train of oilers and supply ships sailed from "a Pacific base." What was this base? The mightiest force of naval Power ever assembled must have required a tremendous supporting establishment. Ulithi, the biggest and most active naval base in the world was indeed tremendous but it was unknown. Few civilians had heard of it at all. By the time security released the name, the remarkable base of Ulithi was a ghost. The war had moved on to the Japanese homeland, and the press was not printing ancient history about Ulithi.

Ulithi is 360 miles southwest of Guam, 850 miles east of the Philippines, 1300 miles South of Tokyo. It is a typical volcanic atoll with coral, white sand, and palm trees. The reef runs roughly twenty miles north and south by ten miles across enclosing a vast anchorage with an average depth of 80 to 100 feet - the only suitable anchorage within 800 miles. Three dozen little islands rise slightly above the sea, the largest only half a square mile in area."

To continue reading and see these amazing photos click the image or here:

Warbird Information Exchange

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Editor's picks from the web 04/16/2017
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Shared by Bill Lewis

Plaque at site

Henry Ford and the Willow Run B-24's -

The long hangar at Willow Run, Michigan has a 90 degree turn in it so Henry Ford would not have to pay taxes in the next county. That short end is being saved and restored today as a museum. The big hanger doors are still operational after all these years.

This is one of the best and most informative clips about a great American accomplishment, thanks to the Ford Motor Company during WWII.

A Ford Airplane! AMAZING!

Production began here 6 months BEFORE Pearl Harbor! Henry Ford was determined that he could mass produce bombers just as he had with cars, so he built the Willow Run assembly plant and proved it. This was the world's largest building under one roof at the time. This film will absolutely blow you away -- one B-24 every 55 minutes! -- and Ford had its own pilots to test them. And no recalls!

A foot note:

"My Dad was aboard the Cruier, USS Springfield at Tokyo Bay during the signing of the surrender. He said, "As the procedure took place, the US had a fly-over with every plane they could use as a sign or the strength they faced if Japan decided to try anything. He said the sky was so dark with hundreds of US planes, it looked like you could walk across the solid mass of wing tip to wing tip formations. That was all possible because of stories brought forth in this incredible video story of wartime history."
Bill Lewis

https://www.youtube.com/embed/iKlt6rNciTo?rel=0

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Editor's picks from the web 04/02/2017
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Shared by John Hopkins Confirmed at Wikipedia

Owen J. Baggett became legendary as the only person to have downed a Japanese aircraft with a M1911 pistol hitting the pilot in the head qhile he was parachuting.

Owen John Baggett was born in 1920 in Graham, Texas. By 1941 he graduated from college and went on to work on Wall Street, but by the following year, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps (now USAF) when the United States entered the war.

A studious man, he graduated from pilot training in just five months and was sent to Burma, flying a B-24 Liberator. What happened the following year is one of those stories hard to describe.

On March 31st, 1943, Baggett and his squadron were sent on a mission to destroy a bridge of strategic importance. On their way, the B-24s got intercepted by Japanese Zeros which hit the squadron hard. Baggetts' plane was riddled with bullets to such an extent that the crew was forced to bail out.

While parachuting, a Japanese pilot decided that downing the plane wasn't enough. He circled around and started shooting at the bailed out pilots, killing two of the crew. Seeing this, Baggett did the only thing he could. He played dead.

Not convinced Baggett was dead, the Zero pulled up to him at near stall speed, the pilot opening his canopy to check on his horrendous work. Not wasting any time and thinking on his feet (no pun intended), Baggett pulled out his pistol and shot the pilot right in the head.This is considered the best shot by a Caliber .45 M911 pistol of ALL TIME.

The last thing he saw was the Zero spiraling toward earth.
When he landed, he and the other bailed out crew members were captured and sent to a POW camp where they remained till the end of the war. They were liberated by OSS agents (World War II version of the modern CIA) and Baggett was recognized as the only person during the war to shoot down a Zero with a pistol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_J._Baggett

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Editor's picks from the web 03/19/2017
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Shared by Warren Post

Pit Number One Today. This pit was used to load Little Boy
onto the Enola Gay. Identification was accomplished by
historians from studying photographs of the bomb loading sequences
and comparing the bolt holes in the photographs to the pits today.

Declassified Historical photographs.
An illustrated guide to the Atomic Bombs
By Ryan Crierie
NOTES: A large number of these photos were assembled from the RG-77-BT collection in the Still Photo collection of the National Archives II building in College Park, MD.

Bomb_Guide.htm

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Editor's picks from the web 03/12/2017
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Shared by Tony Welch

James Burrowes-1942 James Burrowes-2016

"My name is Jim Burrowes. I served as a coastwatcher in the South Pacific during World War II. I have always been interested to tell the history of the coastwatchers because their secretive and specialist operations were ‘hush hush’ during the war. I have now decided to publish it, including some of the details of my own role during the war, so that the vital role that coastwatchers played in winning the war in the Pacific is not lost to posterity.