1943-1950
1943-1949
THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR 1941INCOMPLETE
This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. Then in 1940, when Germany invaded France, peacetime conscription was introduced. By the time of Pearl Harbor the U.S. Army numbered 1,640,000. Then in June 1941 Hitler invaded Russia, and they became our ally. The U.S. Army expanded to […]
Winston Churchill’s IRON CURTAIN SPEECH 1946
“On March 5th 1946, Winston Churchill – whose mother was an American – spoke at Westminster College in Missouri and described the position in which the United States now found itself. “For with this primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future. As you look around you, you must feel not […]
The First Baby Boomers’ Bible 1946
When the men returning from the war found wives, they cut to the chase and formed families. That meant babies and plenty of them. Between 1946 and 1950 20 million babies were born in the USA. But what to do with them? How to care for them? What to feed them? How to raise them? […]
The Babes and the Baby Boom at the End of the War 1946
When the War ended the soldiers came home looking to take up with their pre-war lives or start new ones. One of the first things they looked for were American girls like this one, Norma Jeane Dougherty, who had been ” working in the Radioplane Munitions Factory, mainly spraying airplane parts with fire retardant and […]
Trinity & Hiroshima: The Bomb at the End of the War 1945
(Above: Hiroshima Peace Memorial) Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. “Trinity” was the code name of the first nuclear weapons test of an atomic bomb. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945. The small black dots on the horizon are trees. Then, on August 6, 1945…Hiroshima. […]
