Friedrich Guggenberger, born 02-03-1915 in Munich, began his U-boat career in October 1939 with the usual training. His first U-boat was U-28 under the command of Knights Cross, holder Günther Kuhnke . During the autumn of 1940 Guggenberger took over U-28 and commanded the boat for a few months in a training flotilla.Kuhnke died age 78 on 11-10-1990 in Schortens. In… Read more »
Waffen SS Gruppenführer Max Simon, commander of the XIII SS Army Corps, ordered the execution of farmer and fireman Friedrich Hanselmann, fifty years old, who’s son had been killed in Russia and who’s second son was serving in an antiaircraft unit in Nuremberg , the sixty four years old Leonhard Gackstatter, a respected mayor who held the post… Read more »
After high school graduation, Kenje Ogata born 01 June 1919 in Gary, Indiana, worked in the plating room at National Manufacturing. He learned to fly airplanes through the civilian pilot training program. The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Kenje boarded a train to Chicago to enlist in the United States Army Air Corps. Because… Read more »
After the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines fell to the Japanese in April 1942, a cadre of Army and Navy nurses became the largest group of American women ever captured and imprisoned by an army. Malnourished, injured and ill, these nurses—all 77 of them—not only survived until their subsequent liberation by U.S. forces but also… Read more »
Ju-87 (“Stuck”) – the most famous German dive-bomber of World War II. It was manufactured from 1935 It was one of the most reliable, robust and powerful fighting machines Luftwaffe. Speed, agility, four machine guns, including in the rear hemisphere, making it difficult to target for fighters. Ju-87 had a high precision bombing in nearly… Read more »