Posts Tagged ‘WW2’
The Beginnings of WWII – Nanjing 1937 – Lin Shi
Fragments of Remembrance – as one of the “Big 4” allies of WWII, China’s horrific war began much earlier. The memorial to the 300,000 victims of the Nanjiin Massacre 1937 Where Memory Begins The Second World War ended with the Japanese surrender in Tokyo on 2nd September 1945. World War…
Read MoreAb Homburg: Dutch SOE Agent & Spitfire Pilot – Anke ter Doest
The remarkable story of a Dutch resistance fighter who escaped to England twice and became a RAF fighter pilot . In total darkness two young men in a rowing boat paddled frantically in the direction of England, the third passenger sat at the front on the look-out for possible danger. It was a…
Read MoreAmoureux de la Résistance – Rosie Whitehouse
Amoureux de la Résistance – La guerre de ma belle-mère. Marion Müller Par une nuit de pleine lune en mars 1944, trois agents descendirent en parachute sur les hauts plateaux du Languedoc à l’est de Castres, dans le sud de la France. (Version in English click here: https://afheritage.org/in-love-with-the-resistance-by-rosie-whitehouse) L’un était…
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