The Terrible Story Of The Hero We Lost "Charles Neilans DeGlopper of Grand Island, New York" Honoring For His Heroic Actions. Charles Neilans DeGlopper of Grand Island, New York, a Private First Class in the U.S. Army, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on June 9, 1944. DeGlopper joined the Army in November 1942 and trained at Camp Croft, South Carolina, before being deployed overseas in April 1943, where he served in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and France. On June 9th, 1944, regimental commander Colonel Harry Lewis was ordered to make a crossing of the le Merderet River and help attack the La Fière Bridge from the opposite side.  Themselves under attack, C Company 1st Battalion was cut off from the rest of the battalion. Despite coming under increased fire, PFC DeGlopper stood up and began firing at the attacking Germans to suppress their fire and relieve the battalion. Although wounded, PFC DeGlopper continued to stand and fire, and when...

John Martin Scripps - "The tourist from hell". John Martin Scripps became the first Westerner to be hanged in Singapore for murder and only the second for any offence.  (Dutch born Johannes van Damme was executed for drug trafficking in 1994). He is the last British murderer to be hanged since Britain abolished the death penalty. Dubbed the "tourist from hell" by the British tabloids he may well have murdered three people in all. Scripps was convicted of the murder of Gerrard George Lowe after a trial that began on October the 2nd, 1995. It was to be Singapore's most sensational murder case since that of Adrian Lim, who with his wife and girlfriend, were convicted in May 1983 of the murder of two children in 1981.  Forty six old Lim, a self-styled spirit medium and the two women, Hoe Kah Hong and Tan Mui Choo who were both in their early 30’s, were hanged together in Changi prison in November 1988. September 18th, 1995. In the Singaporean equivalent of Comm...

The Heroic Story Of Harold Christ Agerholm of Racine, Wisconsin, Honoring Him For His Actions During WWII. U.S. Marine Corps Private First Class Harold Christ Agerholm of Racine, Wisconsin, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on July 7, 1944 during the Battle of Saipan. Agerholm joined the Marine Corps Reserve in July 1942 and, upon completion of his training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, was assigned to Headquarters and Service Battery, 4th Battalion, 10th Marines, 2nd Marine Division. In January 1943, he was promoted to private first class and took part in the fighting on Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, in November 1943. Agerholm landed on Saipan on June 9, 1944, three days after the D-Day Invasion in Europe. The battle on the island raged on for three weeks before the enemy launched a counter-attack on July 7th, 1944 and overran a neighboring battalion.  Agerholm volunteered to help evacuate casualties and managed to single-handed...

U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Gerald Leon Endl of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on July 11, 1944, near Anamo, New Guinea. Endl was inducted into the Army in April of 1941 and was serving in New Guinea as a staff sergeant in the 32nd Infantry Division by July 1944.  During a Japanese attack on July 11, 1944, near Anamo, Endl single-handedly held off the advance until several wounded comrades could be rescued. He was killed while carrying the last wounded man to safety. For these actions, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor eight months later, on March 13, 1945. He is buried at Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Related topics Georgi Milev Kasabov was born on January 15, 1895 in Radnevo, Bulgaria to parents who were teachers and owners of a book store. In 1912, Milev studied philosophy at Sofia University, before continuing his education at Leipzig University in Germany, where he took u...

Stanislaw Myskza - the last execution to take place at Perth. 47 year old Catherine McIntyre lived at Tower Cottage on the Tombuie Estate at Kenmore near Aberfeldy in Scotland, overlooking Loch Tay.  On Friday the 26th of September 1947 her husband had gone to work as usual, leaving her alone in the cottage.  When her son, Archibald, came home at 5.15 pm. he discovered an horrific scene.  Catherine was lying on his bed, her hands and ankles taped together, a gag in her mouth and covered in blood.  She had been savagely battered to death.  The McIntyre’s had been robbed of nearly £90 and Catherine’s wedding ring ripped from her finger.  The police searched the cottage and the surrounding area and found a blood stained and broken shotgun which was later identified as having been stolen from Tulloch Farm in Old Meldrum, at the same time as a Polish man who had been working there had left.  He was identified at Stanislaw Myskza who was a former PoW who...

30 December 1944 | 5 prisoners were hanged in Auschwitz after the evening roll-call. One of them was Bernard Świerczyna (in the pictures), a Polish soldier, co-organiser of the resistance in the camp. 3 days before his death he wrote those words in cell 28 in the bunker of Block 11. „I only wanted to be a human and not a heartless combination of digits. To relate by existence to the future and know the secret of future history. I have been captured treacherously by force and locked behind bars, but my honour has not been broken and will not be broken even by the executioner.” Other prisoners hanged during this execution were: a Pole Piotr Piąty and Austrians: Ernst Burger, Rudolf Friemel (in the picture) and Ludwig Vesely. They tried to escape from the camp on 27 October 1944. The escape was thwarted by the betrayal of a bribed SS guard Johann Roth who instead of driving the prisoners out of the camp, went straight to Block 11. The execution on 30 December 1944 was the last ha...

🇺🇲WWII uncovered: 77th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge: Saluting the Heroes We Lost:  Henry Fred Warner Acknowledged with Medal of Honor for Valor  Corporal Henry Fred Warner, of Troy, North Carolina, enlisted with the US Army on January 11, 1943. On December 20, 1944 near Bütgenbach, Belgium Corporal Warner, serving with the 2nd Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division manned his anti-tank gun through the night and into the next morning, despite intense fire from the approaching German tanks. He successfully disabled several enemy tanks before being fatally wounded by enemy fire. ⭐Corporal Henry Ford Warner's Medal of Honor Citation reads as follows: Serving as 57-mm antitank gunner with the 2d Battalion, he was a major factor in stopping enemy tanks during heavy attacks against the battalion position near Dom Butgenbach, Belgium, on 20-21 December 1944. In the first attack, launched early in the morning on the 20th, enemy tanks succeeded in pen...

The Heroic Story Of First Class Frank H. Ono of Delta, Colorado, Honoring Him For His Extraordinary Actions During WWII. U.S. Army Private First Class Frank H. Ono of Delta, Colorado, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions on July 4, 1944, near Castellina Marittima, Italy. Ono’s father was an immigrant from Japan, while his mother was from Ireland. He was a Nisei, which means he was a second-generation Japanese-American. He joined the Army in September 1943 and volunteered to be a part of the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team, mostly made up of Japanese-Americans from Hawaii and the mainland.  During a battle on July 4, 1944, near Castellina Marittima, Italy, Ono advanced ahead of his unit and single-handedly defended his position against an enemy counter-attack. He then braved intense hostile fire to aid two wounded comrades and voluntarily covered his unit's withdrawal when it became necessary to retreat.  Ono left the Army while st...

Once, there was a man who had more lives than a cat - and more medals than a Soviet marshal. LIFE 1:16-year-old Bolesław Kontrym from Volhynia, a grandson and great-grandson of Polish insurgents, leaves school to fight in WWI as a cavalry scout in the Imperial Russian Army. In late 1917, with three medals to his name, he transfers to the Polish II Corps in Russia. LIFE 2: Taken prisoner by the Germans he escapes, but is immediately impressed into the Red Army and gets enchanted with the communist ideology. Soon his tactical talents bring him the command of a rifle brigade and three Red Banner Medals.   The red banner is the one under which he fights in the Polish-Soviet War, covering Tukhachevsky’s retreat from Warsaw – while his grandfather and great-grandfather turn over in their graves. In February 1921, kombrig Kontrym is sent to study at the General Staff Academy in Moscow. LIFE 3: That’s where the Polish Intelligence recruits him. For twenty months he passes secret Red Arm...

The Terrible Death  Of Kiyoshi K. Muranaga of Los Angeles, Honoring Him For His Extraordinary  Action During WWII. U.S. Army Private First Class Kiyoshi K. Muranaga of Los Angeles, California, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on June 26, 1944, near Suvereto, Italy. Muranaga was born to Japanese immigrant parents and was a Nisei, which means he was a second-generation Japanese-American. He and his family were interned at the Granada War Relocation Center in Colorado during World War II.  He joined the Army in May 1943 and volunteered to be a part of the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team, mostly made up of Japanese-Americans from Hawaii and the mainland.  Muranaga was killed on the first day of action for the 442nd in Italy while single-handedly manning his squad’s mortar weapon in an attempt to destroy an enemy artillery gun. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on June 26, 1944.  He was one of t...