06 Aug

(1937) A British diplomat is sent to Baskul, China to rescue 90 people from a violent uprising. He and four others hop on the last plane out but it crashes in the snowy desolate mountains of Tibet. ...

05 Aug

(1942) A World War I officer is injured and cannot remember a thing. Greer Garson and Ronald Colman star in this romance, a fantasy really, that came out at the beginning of World War II....

01 Aug

Gustav Adolfs kyrka (or in Swedish, Gustaf Adolfskyrkan.) It is a beautiful historic church located in the Östermalm area of central Stockholm, just 2 km from the World War II's American Legation at Strandvägen 7....

29 Jul

Another Swedish gentleman who knew my parents in 1944-45 is Olle Åkerlund. At that time, his address was Karlavägen 85, Stockholm....

27 Jul

The beautiful wedding gift given to my parents included the name “Lars Hill-Lindqvist.” I have not been able to find the name spelled with a "v" (even in Google Sweden) but have found the name spelled Lars Hill-Lindquist. I am trying to uncover how this particular gentlemen knew...

27 Jul

(1958) The captain of a WWII submarine has to make some devastating choices in pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier....

26 Jul

Another gentleman who, along with Count Folke Bernadotte and seven others, together gave a wedding gift to my parents was "Ryttmästare Carl Rosenblad." The word Ryttmästare Google translates to "Captain."...

25 Jul

I have been told by an American airman who worked with him that my Dad, Herman F. Allen, met with Arne Uggla for lunch at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm. This would have been in 1944....

24 Jul

Favorite (2010) By Laura Hillenbrand is the amazing true story of Olympic runner Louis Zamperini, the B-24 bombardier who became a Pacific POW. That he survived his ordeals at all is the story....

22 Jul

There were two gentlemen who worked for the Swedish American Line, known as SAL, who knew my father (Herman F. Allen) well. I am searching for clues....

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