The United Kingdom’s National Heritage Memorial Fund announced last week that it would help purchase papers relating to World War II codebreaker Alan Turing. The papers had been put up for auction last year but did not sell. Working at Bletchley Park, the British cryptography center, Turing used a forerunner of the modern computer to help crack [...]
Thursday, March 11, 2010
250 veterans gathered today at the National World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. HBO and a nonprofit group brought the veterans to Washington to mark the premiere of a 10-part series called “The Pacific.” It begins Sunday and focuses on the lives of Marines fighting the Japanese. “The Pacific” is primarily based on two [...]
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
While Jimmy Stewart was building his reputation as an actor, the world was preparing for war. On September 16, 1940 Congress passed the Selective Service Act calling for 900,000 men between the ages of 20 and 36 to be drafted each year. When Stewart’s draft number (310) was called in February 1941, he appeared at Draft Board [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
An 89 year-old northern Ohio man, a veteran of World War II, recently revealed that he had filmed 38 minutes of color footage as his armored unit advanced through Germany in 1944 and 1945. Herman Graebner’s film has been preserved and will be featured next month on the History Channel, in the program “World War [...]
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
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