History Forum / War History / War History / September 2004

"He [Sam Wild -- DSH] took over from Alexander as commander of the
British Battalion in February 1938, and gave it its last dismissal at
Victoria Station on 7 December 1938 in the presence of, among others,
Attlee and Cripps."

I'm sorry if this question is a little vague, but I would like to know
whether Great Britain still owes the U.S.A money for funds for WWII.
My friends told me that we will still be paying for that war in years to
come and that is the reason that there are so may U.S. Airbases in ...

The man who was so kind as to spend so much time talking with me, a mere
midshipman, at a cocktail party in Washington ---- many years ago when
he was CNO.
DSH

Now, The Washington Post, certainly no Republican house organ, weighs in
on the side of discrediting the alleged Killian memos, just as has Bill
Safire of The New York Times:
DSH

Those Atheist Terrorists
From Charles Henderson
Exploding some myths about suicide attacks
In the aftermath of Sept 11, 2001, many in the US have succumbed to

Ignoring the cold war (which could probably just as well be split up
into several wars, which wars (post-WW2) have had the most far
reaching consequences?  I'm thinking it'd have to either by the
Six-Day War, the 1967 Suez War, the Vietnam War, or perhapes the

"Navy Contradicts Kerry on Release of Military Records"
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
September 16, 2004

Don't vote for George Bush. He was a failure as a businessman
and, as a president, he is incompetent.
In modern times, the only worse president was Lydon Johnson
whose decision to go to war in Vietnam torn this great nation

"The Children of Beslan"
"The unique depravity of modern Islamic terror."
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
The Wall Street Journal

New  York Times
September 11, 2004
From 1814, Tales Keep A-Comin'
By JEFF Z. KLEIN

It is said to be the longest and and greatest battle ever fought.  The
Battle of Verdun in World War 1 lasted from 21 Feb 1916 to 19 Dec 1916
that left some 700,000 dead, wounded or missing.  The battle was fought
over less than 10 square kilometres of land. It was a pointless ...

"Oh...and of course, we started at the beginning.  We didn't sell arms
to both sides and then only get involved when it came to our back doors.
If Hawaii hadn't been bombed, the yanks [sic] would still be sitting
out; selling arms to Germany and Japan.  Yanks call it 'Good ...

Please help me figure this out.  According to Nazi documents, there
were 11 million Jews living in occupied Europe.
Some people have advanced the figure of 6,500,000 though, and they
claim that this data is taken from the "Chambers Encyclopaedia".  I've

"Bill Clinton spoke with John Kerry from his hospital bed on Saturday
night in a 90-minute conversation in which he offered Kerry detailed
advice on how to reinvigorate his candidacy... Clinton told Kerry that
he should move away from talking about Vietnam...  Clinton aides who are

"America has done this kind of work before -- and there have always been
doubters.
In 1946, 18 months after the fall of Berlin to allied forces, a
journalist wrote in the New York Times, "Germany is ... a land in an