What So Proudly We Hail, a project for civic education. Kidipede - History for Kids - Homework Help for Middle School Social Studies. Test Your Geography Knowledge- The World (Oceans and Continents) If U.S. Cities Were Countries, How Would They Rank? - Atlantic Mobile. The colorful United States between 1939-1943. This is a group of color photos that shootted since 1939 to 1943 , It is a true portrayal of American society in that age.
There are some very touching photo, which shoot by the photographers whose come from the security administrational office of the farm in the U.S. operational information services. Let us walk together into the life of farms and farmers in United States during World War II. 70 Photos. 5 Real Life Soldiers Who Make Rambo Look Like a Pussy. We all understand that action movies are cheesy escapism.
After all, could one commando really take out a whole compound full of bad guys? Actually, yes. It turns out the history books are full of stories of soldiers doing things so badass they'd hesitate to put them into a film for fear of killing the realism. Like these five, for example. #5. Who Was He? Simo Hayha had a fairly boring life in Finland. Since the majority of fighting took place in the forest, he figured the best way to stop the invasion was to grab his trusty rifle, a couple of cans of food and hide in a tree all day shooting Russians. Can you spot Hayha? Of course when the Russians heard that dozens of their men were going down and that it was all one dude with a rifle, they got fucking scared. They started by sending out a task force to find Hayha and take him out. Then they tried getting together a team of counter-snipers (which are basically snipers that kill snipers) and sent them in to eliminate Hayha.
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More than 83,000 Americans are missing from World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the 1991 Gulf War. Hundreds of Defense Department men and women -- both military and civilian -- work in organizations around the world as part of DoD's personnel recovery and personnel accounting communities. They are all dedicated to the single mission of finding and bringing our missing personnel home. The mission requires expertise in archival research, intelligence collection and analysis, field investigations and recoveries, and scientific analysis. Recently Accounted-For. A View Of The US-Mexican Border. The 15 Most Infamous Assassinations in History - GOOD Blog. Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II - wow this is amazing!
Hidden in Plain View During WW II Lockheed (unbelievable 1940s pictures).
This is a version of special effects during the 1940's. I have never seen these pictures or knew that we had gone this far to protect ourselves. During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.
Before... After.. The person I received this from said she got back an interesting story about someone's mother who worked at Lockheed, and she as a younger child, remembers all this. Another person who lived in the area talked about as being a boy, watching it all be set up like a movie studio production. Note.... I am 85 and had much of my pilot training in Calif.
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