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Bastogne, Belgium | 9-11 December 2011: Courtesy of photographer and historian Erwin Leydekkers, the 2011 Bastogne 'Battle of the Bulge' anniversary gathering and remembrance photo album can be accessed by clicking on the photograph above or by entering here. To learn more about the pivotal 1944-45 battle, visit the 'Battle of the Bulge' page on Wikipedia here.
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"THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN WASKOW" by ERNIE PYLE
Started by Erwin Leydekkers Feb 13. 0 Replies 1 Like
ERNIE PYLE: The Death of Captain WaskowAT THE FRONT LINES IN ITALY, January 10, 1944 - In this war I have known a lot of officers who were loved and respected by the soldiers under them. But never have I crossed the trail of any man as beloved as Capt. Henry T. Waskow of Belton, Texas.Capt. Waskow was a company…Continue
Leonardus Leydekkers
Started by Erwin Leydekkers Jan 27. 0 Replies 1 Like
My oncle died together with the next men; pvt. J. Emmen, pvt. W.A. Verswijver, pvt. C. Butter and pvt. D. de Haan. You can see also those names on the memorial which stand on the Jaffa Cemetery in Delft.In the next combat reports you can read that they got surrounded by the Germans and when they lay down the weapens were killed.…Continue
Tags: Holland, Delft, Jaffa, Leydekkers
William D. McGee MoH
Started by Erwin Leydekkers Jan 26. 0 Replies 2 Likes
Private McGee's official Medal of Honor citation reads: A medical aid man, he made a night crossing of the Moselle River with troops endeavoring to capture the town of Mulheim. The enemy had retreated in the sector where the assault boats landed, but had left the shore heavily strewn with antipersonnel mines. Two men…Continue
Tags: ABMC, Luxembourg, Honor, of, McGee
My uncle Leonardus Leydekkers
Started by Erwin Leydekkers. Last reply by Jackie (Owens) Williams Jan 3. 1 Reply 2 Likes
This is a picture of the grave of my uncle who died on the first day of the war in Holland. He was murdered by the Germans after he surrendered with 4 other soldiers.…Continue
Tags: Leydekkers, Holland, Grebbeberg
Sylvester Antolak MOH
Started by Erwin Leydekkers Nov 6, 2011. 0 Replies 1 Like
Citation: Near Cisterna di Littoria, Italy, he charged 200 yards over flat, coverless terrain to destroy an enemy machinegun nest during the second day of the offensive which broke through the German cordon of steel around the Anzio beachhead. Fully 30 yards in advance of his squad, he ran into withering enemy…Continue
Maurice Albert Windham Rogers VC MM
Started by Erwin Leydekkers Nov 6, 2011. 0 Replies 2 Likes
The citation in the London Gazette of 8th August, 1944, gives the following details;In Italy, a battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment was ordered to attack high ground held by the enemy. The carrier platoon of the leading company, dismounted were ordered to capture the final objective. They advanced under intense fire and sustained a number of casualties. The platoon, checked by the enemy's wire and the intensity of his machine-gun fire, took cover some 70 yards short of their objective.…Continue
1/Lt. George K. Patten
Started by Erwin Leydekkers Oct 15, 2011. 0 Replies 1 Like
853rd Bomber Squadron, 491st Bomber Group, Heavy. 8th USAAF.Killed In Action on the 26th November 1944.On Sunday26 November 1944 a storm front that had been stationary over Northern Germanyfor much of the previous week was beginning to clear. The Eighth Air Force would be after four major targets that day and 24 Bomb Groups, 15 Fighter Groups and 3 Scouting Groups would be involved, a total of 1070 aircraft. The objective for the 491st Bomb Group was the one remaining oil refinery still in…Continue
Guy Gibson VC
Started by Erwin Leydekkers. Last reply by Erwin Leydekkers Oct 10, 2011. 1 Reply 1 Like
Air Ministry, 28th May, 1943.…Continue
Tags: Holland, VC, Steenbergen, Gibson, Guy
2/Lt. Irving B. PATTEN
Started by Erwin Leydekkers Oct 9, 2011. 0 Replies 1 Like
2/Lt. Irving B. PATTEN. 416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group,12th USAAF. Killed In Action on the 1st October 1943.Irving B. Patten was a rugged outdoors man and an avid skier. He joined the Army in January of 1941, and served in the coast artillery and then with ski troops near Tacoma, Washington. In late 1942 he transferred to the…Continue
J.W. Harper VC
Started by Erwin Leydekkers. Last reply by Jackie (Owens) Williams Sep 26, 2011. 1 Reply 1 Like
The citation in the London Gazette of 2nd January, 1945, gives the following details:In Belgium, on 29th September, 1944, the Hallamshire Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment attacked the Depot de Mendicite, a natural defensive position surrounded by an earthen wall and a dyke and strongly held by the enemy. Corporal Harper, disregarding the heavy fire, led the section that he commanded up to the wall, and killed or captured the enemy holding the near side. The platoon commander was…Continue
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Dr. Guy LoFaro Lectures on the 82nd Airborne Division's Contribution during WWII
By SCOTT LYONS
28 January 2012
Historian and author Guy LoFaro, retired US Army officer, and former West Point professor and alumnus, recently spoke of the research behind his 2011 book The Sword of St. Michael: The 82nd Airborne Division in World War II at the North Atlanta-area independent bookseller ‘Acworth Bookstore’. Full Story »
"With the Old Breed" Conversations of Wartime with a WWII-era US Marine
By SCOTT LYONS
21 January 2012
I had the recent privilege of learning World War II history first-hand from Mr. and Mrs. H. Paul Bailey, through in-person interviews. Paul was a U.S. Marine from 1943 to 1946, who fought in the same division, 1st Marine Division (3/7), on Okinawa as Eugene Sledge (3/5), author of With the Old Breed and subject of HBO’s ‘The Pacific’. Full story »
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Italy trip 2012
by Erwin Leydekkers Added February 19, 2012 at 5:16am
German cemetery Pomezia, Italy
by Erwin Leydekkers Added February 18, 2012 at 11:34am
Hall of Heroes: Our WWII veteran family members: 'Album One'
by Scott Lyons Added May 15, 2009 at 2:25pm 3 Comments
Hall of Heroes: Our WWII veteran family members: 'Album Two'
by Scott Lyons Added June 18, 2011 at 12:42am 2 Comments
resistance AS/GL Belgium
by Gilbert Joosten Added February 8, 2012 at 10:34am
WWII NEWS: THE TELEGRAPH
Wartime population faced 'eating plankton to avert food shortages'
Britain's wartime population would have been fed plankton by scientists under proposals to avert critical food shortages, newly discovered documents have disclosed.
Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler a fan of yoga
Heinrich Himmler, the infamous Nazi leader of the SS, was enthralled with eastern mysticism and always carried an ancient text on yoga wherever he went, a new book has claimed.
Hitler had son with French teen
Adolf Hitler had a son with a French teenager while serving as a soldier during the First World War, according to new evidence.
World War Two: air ace in an unmarked grave found
The body of a decorated flying ace who was killed in his first week of war has been found in an unmarked grave in France after 71 years.
Adolf Eichmann exhibition reveals how he was captured by Israeli agents
An exhibition telling the story of how Israeli agents captured Adolf Eichmann has opened in Tel Aviv.
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