THE STRANG ALIENS SKULL DISCOVERED. When archeologists came to Africa and found elongated skulls, they run with it that it was the skulls of the “ALIENS” who built those sophisticated and advanced civilizations that were scattered all over Africa. The elongated skull has been a part and parcel of the traditions of some African tribes, especially the Mangbetu tribe of the Congo.  Below is a mother and daughter from the Mangbetu tribe, in 1930 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Limpombo (head elongation) was believed to allow the brain to grow bigger thus increasing intelligence and it was also a sign of beauty. The Mangbetu are celebrated for their exquisite art and music, with the renowned Mangbetu harp/guitar symbolizing their cultural heritage. These prized instruments have fetched over $100,000, while musicologists strive to document their captivating melodies. The Mangbetu captivated European colonists with their distinctively elongated heads, achieved through the traditi...

🇺🇲 WWII uncovered: Honoring the Service of Hospital Corpsman Jack W. Snyder of the US Navy: Recipient of 10 Battle Stars. Jack W. Snyder, of Cincinnati Ohio, enlisted with the US Navy on November 12 1942. He was 16 years old.  According to the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library History Project: "Petty Officer Third Class Jack W. Snyder enlisted in the Navy at the height of WWII and served onboard the USS Harris APA-2 as a corpsman on multiple operations in the North Africa  campaign as a part of the Southern Attack Force, before shifting over to the Pacific seeing action in Tarawa, Kwajalein, Saipan, Palau Islands, Philippines, and Okinawa campaigns. By the end of the war, Harris received ten battle stars for World War II service." Jack returned to Ohio after the war and received his degree from the University of Cincinnati. After graduation he reenlisted and served as a 1st Lieutenant in the Air Force from 1957 to 1963.  Jack spent his career teaching physic...

Colin Ross – hanged for the murder of a 12 year old girl. 27 year old Colin Campbell Ross was convicted of the rape and murder of 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke on the 30th of December 1921 in Melbourne’s Gun Alley in Australia.   Alma’s naked body was found the following day, she had been raped and strangled. The police interviewed a large number of people, including Ross, who was arrested and charged with the rape and murder on the 12th of January 1922.  At the inquest Florence Matthews, a woman who was formerly Ross's partner at his wine café, gave evidence of an alleged admission by Ross that he had assaulted Alma on the 30th of December.  Ross stood trial at the Melbourne Criminal Court before Justice Schutt, commencing on Monday the 20th of February.  He was found guilty and sentenced to death on the 26th of February 1922.  Despite of his protests of innocence, he was hanged at Melbourne at 10.00 a.m. on Monday the 24th of April 1922.  At precisely 10 o’c...

THE GREAT BATTLE OF WICKHAM ANCHORAGE 1943. The Battle of Wickham Anchorage occurred during the New Georgia campaign in the Solomon Islands during the Pacific War from June 30 – July 3, 1943.   US Marines and US Army troops landed by ship around Oleana Bay on Vangunu Island during the operation.  They advanced overland towards the anchorage, where they attacked a garrison of Imperial Japanese Navy and Army troops.   The purpose of the attack by the US was to secure the lines of communication and supply between Allied forces involved in the New Georgia campaign and Allied bases in the southern Solomons.  The US forces successfully drove the Japanese garrison from the area and secured the anchorage, which would later be used to stage landing craft for subsequent operations.

Honoring the Service of Hershel Williams the Last Living Medal of Honor Recipient of WWII and Hero of Iwo Jima on the Anniversary of his Passing. Please take a moment to join us in honoring Chief Warrant Officer Four Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams who passed away on June 29, 2022 at the Hershel "Woody" Williams VA Medical Center in Huntington West Virginia. Born on October 2, 1923, Williams was 98 years old at the time of his passing. Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams, of Quiet Dell West Virginia, enlisted with the Civilian Conservation Corps before his 18th birthday. Woody had aspirations of being a Marine. After the Invasion at Pearl Harbor he tried to enlist for active service but was under the age of 18.  Upon reaching his 18th birthday he was then again turned down by not meeting the height requirement. Herschel was only 5'6 tall. After the height regulations were changed, he successfully enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve in Charleston, West V...

GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR LAUNCHED OPERATION CARTWEEL IN 1943. On June 30, 1943, General Douglas MacArthur launched Operation Cartwheel, a multi-pronged assault on Rabaul and several islands in the Solomon Sea in the South Pacific.  The joint effort took nine months to complete but succeeded in recapturing more Japanese-controlled territory, further eroding their supremacy in the East. The purpose of Cartwheel was to destroy the barrier formation Japan had created in the Bismark Archipelago, a collection of islands east of New Guinea in the Solomon Sea.  The Japanese considered this area vital to protecting their conquests in the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines. For the Allies, Rabaul, in New Britain, was the key to winning control of this theater of operations, as it served as the Japanese naval headquarters and main base. On June 30, General MacArthur, strategic commander of the area, launched a simultaneous attack, on New Guinea and on New Georgia, as a setup and stag...

German Field Marshal August von Mackensen posing for a photograph in his Hussar uniform, ca. 1915. Today 108 years ago, on June 30, 1915, the Germans and Austro-Hungarians launched the Bug Offensive on the Eastern Front. . In May 1915, the Central Powers launched the Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive and forced the Russians some 310 km eastwards, ending on June 22 with the capture of the city of Lemberg (Lviv).  . The Central Powers realized an ambitious, renewed offensive might force a Russian surrender, thus a three-pronged offensive along the Eastern Front was planned. .  In the north the Germans would attack in the Courland region, in the middle across the Narew river towards Warsaw, and in the south in Galicia between the Bug and Vistula rivers towards Brest-Litovsk. . Originally planned as a grand pincer movement to encircle the Russians, the offensive was reduced to frontal assaults along the line by German Chief-of-Staff Erich von Falkenhayn, who feared the Central Powers would...

Marine killed in WWII found, to be buried in Beaver Valley next week By Larry Miller. Marine Sergeant Fae Moore is coming home. The Chadron-area Marine was killed nearly 73 years ago in the amphibious assault on the Pacific atoll of Tarawa during World War II. More than 1,000 U.S.  servicemen died in the 76-hour battle with Japanese forces to take control of a strategic airfield.  In June 2015, a nonprofit organization called History Flight notified the Department of Defense that they had discovered the remains of 35 servicemen on Tarawa.  One of them was Fae Moore. Fae Verlin Moore was born in Chadron, Nebraska on May 16, 1920, the youngest of Alonzo and Mary Moore’s 10 children – six boys and four girls. The family farmed in Beaver Valley east of Chadron during the 1920s until moving to the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1931.  Fae attended Beaver Valley School and completed the 8th Grade before leaving school to work and help his family during the “Dirty Thirties.” He ...

1944 - Defiant French Resistance member Georges Blind smiling in front of a German execution squad.  This was a mock execution attempting to get the resistance fighter, Georges Blind, to talk. It didn’t work. Georges did not divulge any information. It’s interesting how they’ve placed him at the corner of the building rather than against the stereotypical flat wall.  It must make ricochet injuries to the firing squad members much less likely. Of course this was a mock execution, but most likely they used the same site for real executions.  Georges Blind was eventually forwarded to a concentration camp, where he was selected for termination on arrival, dying some time in late November 1944. A mock execution is a stratagem in which a victim is deliberately but falsely made to feel that his execution or that of another person is imminent or is taking place. It may be staged for an audience or a subject who is made to believe that he is being led to his own execution.  T...

 Honouring the Heroes We Lost: WWII Ace Squadron Leader Keith Granville Taylor-Cannon of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Today we honour WWII Ace and Squadron Leader Keith Granville Taylor-Cannon of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Keith joined the RNZAF on 13th April 1941, and was posted to the United Kingdom on completion of training.  After further training on Hawker Hurricanes with No. 56 Operational Training Unit he was posted on the 24 March 1942 to No. 486 (New Zealand) Squadron as a Sergeant. Known as "Hyphen" Taylor-Cannon had his first aerial victory on 17 December 1942 against a Messerschmitt Bf 109.  On 17 January 1943 Taylor-Cannon once again shot down another Bf 109 and was subsequently promoted to Pilot Officer.  "By the end of his first operational tour he had completed 256 operational flights with No. 486 Squadron, Taylor-Cannon was awarded The Distinguished Flying Cross on the 22 March 1944 for which he received the bar to his DFC in March 1945." O...

During the Battle of Takrouna in Tunisia in April 1943, Lance Sergeant Haane Manahi of Te Arawa led a small band of Māori soldiers up a 300-m-high rocky outcrop.  Under mortar and machine-gun fire, they captured a stronghold held by more than 300 Italian and German troops. The act was described by Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks as ‘the most gallant feat of arms I witnessed in the course of the war’.  While a field-marshal and three generals recommended Manahi for the Victoria Cross (VC), this recommendation was changed, and a Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) was awarded instead. It is not known who made this decision, or why. Manahi died in a car crash in 1986. In late 2005 Te Arawa and the Returned and Services' Association sought the Waitangi Tribunal’s support for moves to award Manahi the VC. Te Arawa argued that their requests to uphold the original VC recommendation had not been handled adequately by the New Zealand government, which had thereby breached the prin...

On this day in 1945, Americans capture the city of Cologne, Germany. The town had already been shattered by years of aerial raids. Now, as World War II was coming to an end, Germans began to flee before the oncoming American tanks. Yet the commander of one German Panther tank refused to go. Instead, he made a last stand in front of Cologne Cathedral, one of the few buildings to remain mostly intact. The Panther tanks were heavier and tougher than the American Sherman tanks. Indeed, that Panther soon knocked out a pair of M4 Sherman tanks, killing or wounding several of our soldiers. But Americans had another, newer tank: the Pershing. One crew was nearby and swung into action. Its commanding officer hoped to attack the Panther from a side street before the Germans knew what was coming. The move was nearly fatal. Inside the German tank, the crew sensed that something wasn’t right. The tank’s turret was turned so that its muzzle was aimed at the side street. Just then, the Pershing came ...

THE HORRIFYING MURDER OF A POLISH JEW "OSKAR MULLER"  IN GAS CHAMER. THE HORRIFYING MURDER OF A POLISH JEW "OSKAR MULLER"  IN GAS CHAMER. 30 June 1928 | A Polish Jew, Oskar Müller, was born in Chorzów. His family emigrated to Norway. He was deported to Auschwitz on 25 February 1943, he was registered in the camp. Most probably he perished during the Death March in January 1945. 25 June 1938 | A German Jewish boy, Henrik Shteinhart Tzukerman, was born in Berlin. His family emigrated to Belgium. In October 1942 he was deported from Malines / Mechelen do Auschwitz. After the selection he was murdered in a gas chamber. Here are some photograph of the children of the jew during the selection. THE HORRIFYING MURDER OF A POLISH JEW "OSKAR MULLER"  IN GAS CHAMER. 30 June 1928 | A Polish Jew, Oskar Müller, was born in Chorzów. His family emigrated to Norway. He was deported to Auschwitz on 25 February 1943, he was registered in the camp. Most probably he perished d...

On This Day in 1916, Private Leslie Quinn was killed in action near Fleurbaix , France. Leslie Quinn was the eldest of three sons born to Isabella Quinn and her husband. Leslie’s father abandoned his family when the children were still young and Leslie and his brothers and sisters were brought up by their mother.  Little else is known of Leslie’s early life, although he was probably brought up in and around Parramatta, where he was born. After school he became a cellarman in charge of a wine cellar. Quinn enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 27 August 1915, shortly after his brother Cecil enlisted. The third brother, Thomas, would enlist in November of the same year. Leslie was posted to the 3rd Battalion, Cecil served the 18th, and Thomas the 4th Battalion. In early April 1916 Leslie was sent to France to fight on the Western Front. Many units of the AIF were given tasks in or near the front line soon after arrival in order to get the men used to the conditions of trench w...

The Terrible History Of The Two Hairy Albino Brothers Born In Slavery "George And Willie Muse".  These are the Muse Brothers. Their biological names are George and Willie Muse. They were two albino brothers born in slavery! In 1899 they were kidnapped as boys in Truevine, Virginia by bounty hunters and were forced into the circus, labeled as “freak show” performers. Their owners showased the brothers in circuses where they were exploited for profit in so-called freak shows. The Muse Brothers became famous across the United States as “Eko and Iko”, the “White Ecuadorian Cannibals”, the “Sheep Headed Men”, the “Sheep Headed Cannibals”, the “Ministers from Dahomey” and “Ambassadors from Mars”. George and Willie were forced to grow their hair into massive “dreadlocks“ which together with their white skin and bluish eyes were exhibited as rarities. They were also billed as “Darwin’s Missing Links” and “Nature’s Greatest Mistakes”.   The boys were not permitted to go to school,...

The Terrible Story Of James “Maggie” Megellas: An Original Devil in Baggie Pants: Legendary Hero of the 82nd Airborne. Known as the 82nd Airborne's most decorated officer, James “Maggie” Megellas became a legend after he single-handedly wiped out a German tank with grenades during the Battle of the Bulge.  Born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Maggie entered service in May of 1942 through a Reserve Officers Training Corps program at Ripon College in Wisconsin. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the US Army. Originally assigned to the Signal Corps, James volunteered to become a paratrooper and was assigned to H Company, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division.  Megellas participated with distinction in the landing at Anzio, in Operation Market Garden, and in the Battle of the Bulge. Time after time Maggie displayed both leadership and courage as he confronted the enemy face on. Despite challenging situations, he never hesitated. According t...

JEWISH CHILDREN TO BE SLAUGHTERED DURING THE HOLOCAUST. During  the Holocaust , children were especially vulnerable to death under the  Nazi  regime. An estimated 1.5 million children, nearly all  Jewish , were murdered during the Holocaust, either directly by or as a direct consequence of Nazi actions. The Nazis advocated killing children of unwanted or "dangerous" people in accordance with their ideological views, either as part of the Nazi idea of the racial struggle or as a measure of preventive security. They particularly targeted Jewish children, but also targeted ethnically  Polish  children and  Romani  (also called Gypsy) children and children with mental or physical disabilities. The Nazis and their collaborators killed children for these ideological reasons and in retaliation for real or alleged partisan attacks.  Early killings were encouraged by the Nazis in  Aktion T4 , where children with disabilities were gassed ...

🇬🇧 WWII uncovered: The Unsung Heroes of Operation Dynamo: Victor “Vic” Viner of the Royal Navy. Victor “Vic” Viner was believed to be the last surviving Royal Navy veteran to take part in Operation Dynamo - the Navy’s evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk between 26 May and 4 June 1940.  Born in Gillingham, Kent, Victor joined the service at age 14. By the age of 23, Vic was on his way to participate in one of the largest rescue operations of World War II. According to the Scotsman News Publications: "On 25 May 1940, Viner and his colleagues were issued their kit and debriefed as to their mission while leaving Chatham, Kent, and travelling by bus to their ship HMS ESK, a destroyer.  Upon crossing the Channel and arriving at Dunkirk, his first job, with three others, was to row the ship’s whaler to the beach and bring back soldiers. It was tiring, back-breaking work, as they picked-up 15 soldiers, complete with kit, on each journey....

On June 29, 1943, the U.S. Senate passed the first, and thus far only, national childcare program, voting for $20,000,000 to provide for public care of children whose mothers were employed for the duration of World War II.  During the war, the federal government offered grants for childcare services to authorize community groups that could demonstrate a war-related need for the service. The program was justified as a war expedient necessary to allow mothers to enter the labor force and increase war production. Funding authorization came through the 1941 Defense Public Works law (Title II of the 1940 National Defense Housing Act), popularly known as the Lanham Act. The law was designed to assist communities with water, sewer, housing, schools, and other local facilities’ needs related to war and industry growth.  This act was one of several Congress passed giving general defense mandates to the Federal Works Administration (FWA). The FWA, established in 1939, was created to ove...

Villagers Killed Gigantic Snake Which They Thought Had Swallowed A Cow(photos). Late in the afternoon some people who murdered an immense snake in the wake of suspecting it with having eaten a calf in view of its swollen stomach found it was pregnant with many eggs. The incident happened in Nigeria where local media said the snake had been killed over accusations it had been feasting on farmers’ livestock. However as these images show, the snake was not overweight because of its last meal, it was actually pregnant. Locals who killed a huge snake after suspecting it of having eaten a calf because of its swollen stomach discovered it was pregnant with dozens of eggs The incident happened in Nigeria where local media said the snake had been killed over accusations it had been feasting on farmers’ livestock After being cut open, dozens of eggs were found and removed by locals who regard them as a rare delicacy. Although it was not clear what sort of snake it was, many snakes can p...