Kongo visited the American landing beaches at Normandy. It was bitterly cold with a fierce wind. Bursts of rain bombarded the tour group. The sea roiled at high tide. As we overlooked Omaha Breach you couldn’t help but be awed … Continue reading Normandy Beaches
It was a sobering afternoon. After visiting Miyajima, Kongo headed to downtown Hiroshima to see the Peace Memorial Park. memorializing that day in August, 1945 that ushered in the Atomic Age. Although the bomb hastened the end of World War … Continue reading Hiroshima Peace Park
In the closing weeks of World War II allied armies were rapidly pushing east trying to get across the Rhine River and have a chance to get to Berlin before the Soviets. The problem was that stubborn Germans fighting desperately kept blowing up the bridges across the river just as advance elements of the American army arrived. That all changed at the small German village of Remagen when a brave young American army officer and his sergeant led a squad of soldiers across a bridge and made history. It was like something right out of Hollywood.
Red Army troops push forward against Nazi forces in this depiction of battle at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Kiev, Ukraine. Learn more about the Weekly Photo Challenge here. Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Forward
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