During the pre-dawn hours of November 7, 1918 the German peace delegation crossed through to the American sector at a battle-scared Argonne village named Cunel. A former private in the U.S. Fifth Infantry Division, Amico J. Barone, recalled that night and wrote this essay in 1938.
This uncredited STARS and STRIPES article dwells on the same topic as the well-researched book by Joseph Persico, Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 (2003, Random House). For those who are curious about the violent climax of the war, this two page article will help you to understand which A.E.F. units were still attacking along what front at 10:59 a.m. on November 11, 1918.
Then a quite startling thing occurred. The skyline of the crest ahead of them grew suddenly populous with dancing soldiers… The Germans came with outstretched hands, ear-to-ear grins and souvenirs to swap for cigarettes.
From our humor department came this submission that first appeared in a British Army Trench magazine.
The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:
Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.
Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…
Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…
The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:
Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.
Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…
Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…
The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:
Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.
Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…
Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…
The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:
Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.
Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…
Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…
The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:
Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.
Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…
Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…
The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:
Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.
Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…
Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…
The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:
Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.
Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…
Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…
In 1946, a literary statistician ascertained that, in the world of O’Neill plays, there had been 12 murders, eight suicides, 22 other deaths and seven cases of insanity
To read the attached biographical essay is to understand that O’Neill did not become America’s premiere tragedian by simply reading about the disasters in the lives of others; his entire life was a tragedy. In his wake were alcoholic, suicidal children and numerous unloved wives.
War correspondents see and hear about many courageous acts that serve as a testimony to the level of personal commitment held high by many (but not all) of the American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who served in the Second World War, and when I read the opening paragraphs about this hero, I knew it was going to be unique:
His name is Staff Sergeant Henry E. Erwin of Bessemer, Alabama. He was the radio operator on a B-29, and what he did, we think, was the bravest thing we ever heard of.
This article is essentially a collection of lyrics from an assortment of songs sung by the Black Doughboys who were charged with the task of loading and unloading trucks far behind the front line trenches during the First World War. It was written in 1927 to serve as a review for Singing Soldiers
All dese colored soldiers comin’ over to France
All dese soldiers an’ me
Goin’ to help de Whites make de Kaiser dance
All dese soldiers an’ me…
There was one thing the Japanese hated more than being defeated and occupied by the Gai-jin (the Japanese slur for Whites) and that was when their daughters, sisters and nieces began bedding their tormentors and baring their young. Tremendous shame was brought on these women, and their families. This article is about the Amerasian babies who were isolated in a special orphanage designed just for them.
How did all of this come to pass? Click here to find out…
The attached article is essentially a behind the scenes look at the making of Walt Disney’s 1938 triumph Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:
• He employed 569 people who worked all day and frequently all night to finish it.
•The film took three and half years to make and cost $1,500,000.00.
•He concocted 1500 different paints to give it unmatched color.
•He spent $70,000.00 developing a brand new camera to give it depth.
•He threw away four times the drawings he made and the film he shot.
•He made over 2,000,000 separate drawings…
Although Disney’s wife, Lilian, was said to have remarked, No one’s ever gonna pay a dime to see a dwarf picture, the movie generated more box office receipts than any other film in 1938.
The attached article is essentially a behind the scenes look at the making of Walt Disney’s 1938 triumph Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:
• He employed 569 people who worked all day and frequently all night to finish it.
•The film took three and half years to make and cost $1,500,000.00.
•He concocted 1500 different paints to give it unmatched color.
•He spent $70,000.00 developing a brand new camera to give it depth.
•He threw away four times the drawings he made and the film he shot.
•He made over 2,000,000 separate drawings…
Although Disney’s wife, Lilian, was said to have remarked, No one’s ever gonna pay a dime to see a dwarf picture, the movie generated more box office receipts than any other film in 1938.
We shall fight until the terror of the plutocracies has been broken.
– so blathered Adolf Hitler in a radio address from early 1940 in which he attempted to clarify the Nazi war aims. Never forgetting that the zi in Nazi is derived from Sozi for socialist (Compare with ‘Commie’ for ‘Communist’) – the dictator was heard here doing what he did from time to time in his speeches; borrowing the street hustle of the proletarian underdog (many thanks to WIKIanswers).
Click here to read another article on the same topic.
This is an interesting article that indicates just how profoundly elections had changed after 1920, when women began to vote. Previously, when the voting booth was a gender-specific domain, the victory margins were seldom greater than 10%; yet, beginning with the 1920 presidential election and continuing through the election of 1936, dramatic differences could be seen between the winners and losers that had never existed in prior contests.
The journalist believed that the advent of radio broadcasting also played a contributing factor in these elections.
Read a 1951 profile of a future First Lady: the young Nancy Reagan.
