by Rona Simmons | Dec 7, 2022 | History, Military History, Remembrance
December 7, 1941 was more than just the attack on Pearl Harbor.
by Rona Simmons | Jul 23, 2022 | Books, Military History
So many books, so little time. The easy way is to pick up the book everyone else is reading or the one on the front page of some magazine. There is a better way.
by Rona Simmons | Jun 16, 2021 | Military, Military History, WWII
Can you name a film from the 1940s or 1950s where the actors did not smoke, sometimes throughout the movie? Probably not. Besides giving characters something to do with their hands, Hollywood considered smoking to be sophisticated and sexy. Thankfully, today, with...
by Rona Simmons | May 4, 2021 | Military History
What we know to be true about UFOs and Norden Bombsights In January 2021, the CIA released a trove of previously “secret” documents on unidentified flying objects. And then, as CIA representatives pushed their chairs back from the table, they claimed to have disclosed...
by Rona Simmons | Dec 7, 2020 | Military History, WWII
At 0300 on June 25, 1943, a jeep crept quietly through the dark to one of the Niessen huts at Thorpe Abbotts airfield. The sergeant on board, entered, reached the bunk of Lt. Stanley O. Morrison placed a hand on Morrison’s shoulder and nudged him awake. Not that...
by Rona Simmons | Sep 18, 2020 | Books, Military, Military History, WWII
By now I imagine and, having done my part, fervently hope, everyone knows 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. If not, there’s one more opportunity to catch up on the events, the issues, and the ordinary and extraordinary people who...