With the D-Day anniversary only a day away, I’ve been reviewing some of the letters that I inherited from my father, John W. Kendall, Jr. Someday I would like to compile these letters, from 1941 through 1945, into a book. My father served with the 45th Division, 157thInfantry, from 1941 through 1945. He was shipped ...
Fat Man and Little Boy Little Boy was a gun type Uranium Bomb. It was dropped on Hiroshima on August the 6th 1945. Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima. It had an explosive force of about the same as 15,000 tons of TNT. The City of Hiroshima had about 43,000 soldiers and 300,000 civilians. There ...
The United States has shown over its storied history that it possesses great pride in not only the form of government that it has chosen, Democracy, but the way in which it implements it on a day to day basis. This free flow of thoughts and ideas amongst people in powerful positions lends itself to ...
Neutral Milk Hotel was formed in 1991 by Jeff Mangum, Bill Doss, and Will Cullen Hart under the name ‘The Olivia Tremor Control’. After recording a few demo cassettes with the name ‘Milk’, the band took up their current name, Neutral Milk Hotel. Soon after their 1993 recording of Hype City Soundtrack, Jeff Mangum became ...
The Soviet Union’s invasion of Japanese-controlled Manchuria in 1945 is largely a forgotten campaign in the west. In our history books, the defeat of Japan at the end of World War II is attributed to the United States, its close allies, and the use of the atomic bomb. What we overlook is that the Soviet’s ...