UPDATE: Read our Movie Review of Midway (2019) The epic 1942 Battle of Midway is set to receive the Hollywood treatment in a film to be released in 2019 and that has a tentative budget of $100 million. The film is set to follow U.S. soldiers and sailors throughout the battle in a fictionalized account. …
If the hallowed ground of Arlington National Cemetery could reveal its secrets, it would tell tales of heroism and tragedy that would make American hearts break even as they swelled with pride. Perhaps no tale is more heart-wrenching than that of Ira Hayes, the World War II hero of Iwo Jima. The Pima Indian was …
In Part One of Notable US Navy Losses of World War 2 we covered the USS Arizona (BB-39), USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56), USS Tullibee (SS-284), USS Tang (SS-306), USS Mount Hood (AE-11), USS Borie (DD-215), USS Ingraham II (DD-444), USS Indianapolis (CA-35), USS Stewart (DD-224), USS Sturtevant (DD-240), USS R-12 (SS-89) and USS S-28 (SS-133) but these were just a handful of the notable losses. We asked our readers …
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Four days after Independence Day 1940, at age 21, my father, Herb Gilmore, enlisted for a three-year term as a private in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army Air Corps’ Hawaiian Department. One of 53,500 men who enlisted that year in the Air Corps, he chose Hawaii because he thought it would be lovely. …
World War II ended seventy-one years ago, but more than 9,000 oral and written histories are ready to invade the Internet, providing first-person accounts of the war and those who fought it online. The National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana has over 22,000 hours of materials, thousands of documents, and millions of …
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When President John F. Kennedy, the trailblazer of the New Frontier, called upon Americans to ask not what their country could do for them, but what they could do for their country, his inaugural message sounded a clarion call to a younger generation that wanted to serve in a noble cause. JFK was a World …
He was throwing a football with his friend Dale Downey on that cool December day when the word came across the radio. His dad came outside and said the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor. Thomas “Bud Currah” and his friend Dale in youthful ignorance quickly replied, “Don’t worry; we’ll take care of it. Dad …
Some facts of WWII 1. There was a Japanese soldier, named Hiroo Onada, who didn’t surrender until 29 years after World War II was over, in 1974. 2. That a Japanese man, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, survived both the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. 3. Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade, who was a rear …
Audie Murphy was born a sharecropper, became the most decorated combat soldier of World War II, and went on to become a Hollywood star. Born June 20th, 1925 to Emmett Berry Murphy and Josie Belle Killian Murphy, no one could have predicted what this young boy’s life had in store for him. Untimely deaths, heroic …
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Don’t miss out! Argunners Magazine keeps you updated on new upcoming (top) Movie, TV-serie and Documentary releases, so that you don’t miss out anything. In this list are the upcoming World War II Movie, Documentary and TV-series releases (and upcoming) for the Year 2017. Dunkirk “Dunkirk” opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped …
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