Some New News About an Old War, World War II.
1. WW II BOMB DEFUSED-- On Feb. 24th MSNBC announced that 15,000 residents in Celle, a city in northern Germany were evacuated while experts defused a 2000-pound American World War II bomb found on the grounds of an industrial property. The operation lasted 35 minutes.
Unexploded Allied bombs are still found fairly often in Germany, even 64 years after the end of the war.
2. JAPANESE INTERNMENT-- A sad time in US history, but understandable for the time, Japanese internment officially began Feb. 19, 1942.
3. WILLIAM GENAUST/IWO JIMA MOVIE-- The Famous Person Buried blog today mentions a man not known by me, but whose film of an important event in World War II captured the soul of America, the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima. He only survived the event by nine days, dying March 4, 1945.
William Homer Genaust, Staff Sgt and War Correspondent, USMC, born 1907, filmed the raising of the second American flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi, February 23, 1945. Nine days later, he was killed by Japanese soldiers hiding in a cave. His body was never recovered as the cave was filled in by a bulldozer.
You can see his film at www.youtube.com/watch?tv+M8DWC_CQ9fg
Now, You Know. --Cooter
WHO'D HAVE FIGGERED? --Quotes from 1955: I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's worth of groceries for $20."
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