by Mitch Kaidy | 22 Sep 2006
By David D. Lowman
391 pp.
Athena Press
Seldom” writes David D. Lowman, “has any major event in U.S. history been as misrepresented as has US intelligence about the evacuation” of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
On the evidence of hard-documentation produced in this book, Lowman proves his assertion. Reproducing a massive amount of evidence available to government authorities both in [more...]
ⓘby Mitch Kaidy | 22 Sep 2006
By Barbara Anderson Strang
233 pp.
Library of Congress #97-73772
If you really want to know what World War II was like for those who did most of the fighting and dying, don’t bother with the famous “The Greatest Generation.”
Read this book.
Of the scores of books I’ve read about World War II since being discharged from the infantry in 1945, two stand out.
They are [more...]
ⓘby Preston Durrer | 25 Jun 2005
Fred A. Woodress, DivHqs, is the author of a new book of plays, “Slave or Free and 11 Other Problem-solving Plays” with wife Anne Blackmon Woodress from AuthorHouse, Bloomington, Ind.
Two of the plays by Fred Woodress are about World War II. “Impasse,” a one act about an infantry company in the Schnee Eifel Hills of Germany, was reprinted from “Best One Act Plays 1948-49.” Following its first publication, a New York Times reviewer called [more...]
“I Live From Day to Day” is set in a bar in Cannes. Faye Sperling played Jeannette Ferrand and John Booker Jeff Stevenson in the University of Alabama in Birmingham’s Town and Gown Theatre premiere at the Tutwiler Hotel.
Private First Class Fred Woodress photographed near Saalburg, Germany, shortly after VE Day, May 1945. The 87th Infantry Division became part of the Army of Occupation at Plauen in Saxony near the Czech border.
Fred and Anne Woodress
Fred Woodress interviews Marilyn Monroe in 1953. Fred remarked: “She was a warm, wonderful person who gave me full attention while interviewing her during her lunch break while shooting a billboard for “Niagara.” Some stars talk to you while looking over your shoulder for someone more important. Not Marilyn.”
by Wayne Luedke | 22 Apr 2004
The following article is © 2004 by The Iola Register of Iola, Kansas, and is reproduced here with permission.
[more...] ⓘby Mitch Kaidy | 23 Jul 2003
Under bright blue skies, two huge and colorful 16-feet long signs dedicated to the 87th Infantry Division as well [more...] ⓘ
by Preston Durrer | 19 Oct 2002
Outside, autumn raindrops fell.
Inside, voices cracked and tears moistened the eyes [more...] ⓘ
The following item was forwarded to us by Dan Williams, son of Francis P. Williams (HQ-345). It was also submitted to The Golden Acorn News by Tom and Gayla Stafford, and appeared [more...] ⓘ
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