The first stop for our "Siblings in Sweden" trip would be the Swedish island of Gotland where on March 6, 1944, the B-17 Liberty Lady made an emergency wheels-up landing after it was badly damaged during a bombing raid over Berlin....
For as long as any of us can remember, our family has talked about Sweden. It’s where, during World War II, our parents Herman and Hedvig met, fell in love, and got married. Now, we were on our way!...
Favorite (1957) The story of a World War I regiment of French soldiers who are ordered to proceed with what could only be described as a suicide attack. ...
(1942) A young lady from England's upper class joins the WAAF, even though her parents object to her fighting the war alongside common folk. ...
(1959) Pork Chop Hill is about one battle fought in 1953, at the end of the Korean War while the U.S. was negotiating an armistice with the Communist Chinese and North Koreans....
Favorite (1962) Right after the end of the Korean War a veteran begins to have nightmares that he and the other members of his platoon had been brainwashed. ...
In September, I'm going back to Sweden! My two sisters and brother will come with me to revisit Gotland and Stockholm. I'm busy mapping out everything we need to see....
(2001) British author Ken Follett writes about an all-female team of British SOE agents who parachute into France right before D-Day in order to bomb a German telephone exchange....
Nope (1956) During the night of the Normandy Invasion the 101st Airborne Division, known as "The Screaming Eagles" parachutes into France. ...
(1944) This American army training film was designed to teach U.S. Army Air Force crews to resist interrogation by the Germans....