Reflections: World War II 21 Articles

by Donald Hancock

CHILDHOOD REFLECTIONS OF WORLD WAR II Looking back on my childhood, some of the happiest days of my life were those years in which our country was totally absorbed, physically, mentally, and spiritually in World War II....read more

by Cean Burgeson

"Many times I feel that the Almighty had his hand around my shoulder, or I wouldn't be here," says Carl Carlstrom, who served as a flight engineer aboard a B-17(G) Flying Fortress over the skies of Europe during the second...read more

by Shirley Lake

World War II: A Child's Story "A child is supposed to be happy when her daddy comes home from the war." I was only eight years old that day but, because a big American flag draped the doorway of our little place in t...read more

by Gunta Krasts Voutyras

Confusion reigned in the Displaced Person Camps in the early days after the war. The year was 1947. There were thousands of us. All ages. In the DP Camp, in Esslingen am/Neckar. Block houses were provided to house us, ...read more

by Jimmy Mack

Yesterday was the 64th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe at Normandy. In this day and age where we consider it a hardship having to stand in line for forty-five minutes to vote, it is hard to imagine what these ...read more

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by Renata Hunter

RUSSIA VS. GERMANY: BLOOD BATH, 30 MILLION LIVES TAKEN. THE UNKNOWN WAR, BY HARRISON E. SALISBURY, BANTAM BOOKS, 1978. This is a book which takes you in the depths of he horror of war. The book is full of photographs the P...read more

by Kerry Michael Wood

One of my earliest recollections from childhood is the booming voice of Dr. McCrea, our family doctor. He was miles away and I was across the room from my mother, but I could hear his horrified excitement coming from the e...read more

by David Norris

War had been constant for nearly six years . Millions dead, millions more lives changed forever. By February 1945 though, World War Two was drawing to an end . Germany was on the verge of collapse with the Soviets pushing ...read more

by Can Tran

Around 1982, the year I was born, my grandmother got remarried that same year to my step-grandfather. We're a Vietnamese family and my step-grandfather is English. When I was five, I moved down to Florida to live with my...read more

by Dr Tanvir Hussain Bhatti

Dying to Destroy Drives of the Divine Winds' In the contemporary history the unparallel suicide airplane strike campaign of Kamikazes (Japanese, "divine wind"), to destroy American naval ships to hamp...read more

by John O Meekins

WHOOMP! The noise and a sudden jolt shook the two men in the PBY seaplane cockpit. They look around trying to understand what had happened. Then they saw it. Water seeped up through the floor of seaplane's flight deck. ...read more

by Diane Hodge

THANK YOU AMERICA Today all over the French Republic is a national holiday, celebrating Armistice for the Second World War. Thank you America, for helping to bring it to a close, and to a close that the free world c...read more

by Virgil Teague

KILROY WAS HERE As a military kid raised in the Post-WWII milieu, one of the images that sticks in my mind is that of the ubiquitous Kilroy, that simplistic long-nosed character peeking over a fence on which the legend ...read more

by Tom Ontis

It was my mother who talked about World War II. My father and mother had been married less than two years when he joined the Navy in 1942. He always said, so she relates, that he didn't want to carry his bed on his back,...read more

by Rob O'Hannon

For people of my generation (baby boomers) the effects of World War Two linger on. Though we did not fight it, and most of us were born after it, WW II profoundly influenced who we are. Our parents' experience of the wa...read more

by Dixie Phillips

"Get down!" hollered the young foot soldier to his comrades. "It's no use!" screamed another young soldier from their foxhole. The Germans have us surrounded." Private First Class Orville Willard Phillips si...read more

by Muhammad Khan

Did we do the right thing when we made Germany pay reparations for WWI? I think that we did the right thing by making Germany pay reparations in view of the fact that Germany (in control of Adolf Hitler) achieved in initia...read more

by Daniela Maria

World War II, there are always two sides to a story, which one do you want to hear? We have been taught that during World War II, Germans had concentration camps for Jews, where they suffered and died, but in a war there...read more

by Shawn Skellon

As we settle into this new Millennium it seems amazing that less than a century ago the world was heading towards 30 years of turmoil with the loss of millions of men,women and children. The threat today from terrorist at...read more

by Thomas Schuppert

Back in the early 1970s, I was a typical teenager living in Phoenix, Arizona. My first job, when I turned 14, was working after school in a neighborhood grocery store. By the time I was 16, the grocery store was "kid's stu...read more