16 Aug

Rättvik is where, during World War II, my Dad and his crew were interned after their crippled B-17 “Liberty Lady” belly landed on the Swedish island of Gotland....

15 Aug

Favorite (2007) The War is a seven part documentary series about World War II written by Geoffrey C. Ward and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. ...

08 Aug

The center of all entertainment in early Manchester was the Picture Show. Legend has it that Franklin Roosevelt was attending a high school graduation here when he received a phone call from New York asking him to seek the Democratic nomination for President. He accepted....

04 Aug

In 2012, I toured the university town of Uppsala to retrace the steps my Dad had taken in 1944....

02 Aug

(1944)During World War II the Hollywood Canteen was a club open only to servicemen and women where they could get a free meal, entertainment and perhaps dance with a real Hollywood star. ...

25 Jul

Favorite (1997) This is an Italian film about a Jewish Italian family sent to a concentration camp. In order to protect his son the father pretends that everything is actually a game. ...

24 Jul

(2003) In December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge, a small group of soldiers escape the Malmedy Massacre....

22 Jul

During World War II, British and American airmen lived in Falun at Solliden Pensionat while they were being interned....

18 Jul

(2007) Survivor of the Bataan Death March, writes about imprisonment by his captors and then in later years, by his hatred....

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