16 Jul

(1942) The Devil with Hitler is a 44-minute comedy propaganda film created by producer Hal Roach, famous for Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang (The Little Rascals.) ...

04 Jul

What I recently discovered was actress Hedy Lamarr's World War II connection. She was famous, not only for her looks but for her genius....

02 Jul

(1944) This comedy is based on the 1942 best selling book by journalist Marion Hargrove as he described his madcap experiences in Army boot camp....

11 Jun

Janna Doolittle Hoppes just happens to be the granddaughter of General James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle. She has forged an impressive career as an author, educator and speaker. ...

27 May

This is the seventeenth year that Roswell Rotary and the City of Roswell, my hometown, have jointly sponsored Roswell Remembers, a tribute to all our veterans and the men and women who are serving in our military today. Thousands of people come from all over...

01 May

Last year I wrote about the Penny Marshall movie A League of Their Own. It featured the All-American Girl’s Professional Baseball League organized in 1942 when it was feared that the men’s major league would be cancelled due to the war. Then I learned...

26 Apr

Favorite (2011) In 1945 a U.S. plane called the Gremlin Special crashed on the island of New Guinea. This nonfiction book by Mitchell Zuckoff is the amazing story of the rescue of the survivors from a valley nick-named Shangri-La....

15 Apr

On April 2nd the Roswell Rotary Club sponsored their 6th Honor Air trip of World War II and Korean veterans to Washington, DC to see their memorials. There is no cost whatsoever to our veterans. Their Guardians pay their own way....

12 Apr

(1987) The story of Jamie, a young boy from a wealthy British family living in Shanghai. When the Japanese occupy Shanghai after the attack on Pearl Harbor he is separated from his parents as they flee the city....

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