Job Maseko: Hero!

Job Maseko, a WW2 hero, sank a NAZI ship with a bomb made from a tin can with condensed milk. He was denied the highest military decoration, due to his race.

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World War 2 Didn’t End Like You Think It Did…

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Nazis' Worst Nightmare: WW2 Legends That Defied Evil

These WWII Legends Were The Nazis' Worst Nightmare

Nightwitches

And I thought the RedTails had gotten a raw deal in WWII, but the fact that I have never heard of these ladies until now is truly criminal!!!!!! I'm gonna have to do more research!

For those not in the know, night witches were Russian lady bombers who bombed the German lines in WW2. Thing is though, they had the oldest, noisiest, crappest planes in the entire world. The engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid flight to restart the props. the planes were also so noisy that to stop germans from hearing them combing and starting up their anti aircraft guns, they’d climb up to a certain height, coast down to German positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair, and get out of dodge.
Their leader flew over 200 missions and was never captured.

Nightwitches

Economist Paul Krugman Endorses 'Watchmen' Alien Invasion Plan for Fiscal Recovery - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

For years people have wondered what would it take for people to put aside their differences and get along. Historically as well as in fiction, treaties and alliance are often forged to fight common enemies. I liked the Movie and Comic book series Watchmen but I don't really think a proposed alien invasion would unite humanity. I think some people would sell each other out and/or not lift a finger to help others. But that hasn't stopped people from imagining that it would help us get our act together.

Every Watchmen fan remembers the plot of Adrian Veidt a.k.a. Ozymandias: Save the world from the imminent threat of nuclear war by creating the even bigger threat of an alien invasion, and forcing the people of the world to unite against a greater enemy. Yesterday, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman sounded very similar to a modern-day Ozymandias during his appearance on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS show, where he suggested that a fake alien invasion -- and the government spending it would create -- would fix the economic slump within 18 months.

Think about World War II -- that was actually negative social product spending and yet it brought us out... If we discovered that space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive build-up to counter the space alien threat, and inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. And then if we discovered, "whoops, we made a mistake," we'd [still] be better... There was a Twilight Zone episode like this, in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time we need it to get some fiscal stimulus.

Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/15/watchmen-paul-krugman-alien-invasion/#ixzz1VA2F1lL5

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Captain America and Superhero Worldviews, Part 2 | Reflections

Here is part 2 of Dr Kenneth Sample's reflection on the worldview illustrated in Captain America: The First Avenger. I liked his analysis and I agree with him. I'd add in saying that the way Captain America's ethics were demonstrated reminds me of the America I've always wanted and heard about but never actually experienced. Samples is right that America is far from the Triune all-powerful God of the Bible but many moral things were there in the beginning. Rather than rugged and selfish individualism and entitlement the permeates American culture today, Captain America was very much a product of the America of the 1940s - a generation that came of age during the depression and in many ways in the movie, Captain America represented some of the best that generation had to offer. The desire to serve and protect others. The dislike of bullies. There was a line in the movie where Steve Rogers said he wanted to fight Nazis because he does not like bullies. I've seen interviews of real-life WWII veterans expressing the same sentiment. He also said that men were fighting and dying for freedom and said he could do no less. He was not more concerned with his own life than he was about the people around him. He was humble and powerful and he was striving to do the right thing because it was right even when it was hard or inconvenient. This is the America I'd like us to be. It's also the kind of man Captain America is in the Comics. By that way, I also thought the movie was great.

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Apparently Star Trek Killed Osama Bin Laden - Topless Robot

Osama Bin Laden's death is big new -not just in America but all over the world. Topless Robot got this from TrekMovie.com:

On Thursday, the German news channel N24 was covering the death of Osama bin Laden and how the US Navy's "SEAL Team Six" headed up the mission in Pakistan last Sunday. At one point N24 host Mick Locher showed off what he thought was the official emblem for SEAL Team Six [see above]. Locher even commented (translated from German) on the emblem:

And they also have the 'Team Six,' that carried out the mission. They don't have the skull in their emblem for nothing.

Locher didn't seem to notice (or care) that the skull in question was from a Klingon and included a bolted-on eyepatch. He and N24 also appear undeterred by the emblem's inclusion of a phaser, 3 Klingon bat'leth swords and the word "Maquis." The original Maquis were a French resistance guerrilla group who (ironically) fought against German occupation in World War II. That group inspired the name for the Maquis seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, who fought against Cardassia in former Federation colonies.

I got to admit...it does look like that. I can't tell if there was a mistake made or not but I like the logo.

Apparently Star Trek Killed Osama Bin Laden - Topless Robot

World War II - German Sniper Training Film

Cover of Sniper Training

How did the Nazis train their snipers? With a propoganda laden training film of course!




World War II - German Sniper Training Film

YouTube - Atomic bombing of Nagasaki - BBC

I usually only see documentary information for Hiroshima and not much on Nagasaki. This is good video!




YouTube - Atomic bombing of Nagasaki - BBC

YouTube - WWII:RARE COLOR FILM:PEARL HARBOR DECEMBER 7 1941 1

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Archival Gold!





YouTube - WWII:RARE COLOR FILM:PEARL HARBOR DECEMBER 7 1941 1

The Last Days of World War II - Death of the Reich

Here is a Great documentary on the end of World War II.

Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Reenactment

Here is a documentary that uses actors, interviews, and computer animation to show what happened when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima back in August, 1945. All I can say after seeing this video:
1. I'm glad I wasn't there.
2. We need to make sure it doesn't happen again.

D-Day Archival Footage