Tag Archives: World War II

U.S. Citizens as Enemy Combatants in World War II

Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:44 am by Bob Cesca

This popped up in my Twitter feed via Driftglass: There were some US citizens who were members of the Waffen-SS, but no unit made up of American volunteers was ever raised (despite some claims about an “American Free Corps” or … Continue reading →
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Aloha, Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI)

Posted on December 17, 2012 at 6:13 pm by Bob Cesca

He was one of the unsung giants of the U.S. Senate and a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient for his service with the 442nd Regiment, responsible for the harrowing and deadly attacks on the German Gothic Line and Colle Musatello … Continue reading →

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Those Lazy Guys Who Won WWII

Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:13 am by Bob Cesca

Rick Santorum yesterday: But remember, the Greatest Generation, for a year and a half, sat on the sidelines while Europe was under darkness, where our closest ally, Britain, was being bombed and leveled, while Japan was spreading its cancer all … Continue reading →

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Dick Winters, 1918-2011

Posted on January 10, 2011 at 2:56 pm by Bob Cesca

Another hero of World War II is gone: Dick Winters, a highly decorated World War II hero who became a household name when his heroics were chronicled in a Stephen Ambrose book that later became the HBO miniseries “Band of … Continue reading →

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Wars Make Deficits Okay

Posted on September 6, 2010 at 2:48 pm by Bob Cesca

From Krugman’s column today, this surprised me: Consider Gallup polling from March 1938. Asked whether government spending should be increased to fight the slump, 63 percent of those polled said no. Asked whether it would be better to increase spending … Continue reading →

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The Second Bomb

Posted on August 9, 2010 at 2:55 pm by Bob Cesca

Question for the room… There’s been an ongoing debate for the last 55 years about whether or not we should have dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima. But on this day in 1945, we dropped a second bomb — this … Continue reading →

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D-Day

Posted on June 6, 2009 at 11:03 am by Bob Cesca

June 6, 1944

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WWII: Behind Closed Doors

Posted on May 12, 2009 at 10:33 pm by Bob Cesca

The producers of WWII Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West were awesome enough to send me screener DVDs of this PBS documentary miniseries. If you’re at all interested in World War II, Stalin’s Soviet Union, and FDR’s … Continue reading →

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