Cottage to Let
(1941) This British film is all about Nazi spies trying to steal the blueprints for a secret bombsight. ...
11
Aug
11
Aug
In Enemy Hands
(2004) After the crew of a US Navy submarine is captured by the crew of a German U-boat, men from both sides begin to die from a mysterious disease....
17
Jul
Air Force Historical Research Agency
Last week I made my second trip to the Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. This is where historical documents of the Air Force are stored, over seventy million pages....
30
Jun
Two Lives
(2012) This German film is the story of a Norwegian war orphan who was sent to Germany during WWII, then reunited with her mother several years later. ...
18
Jun
Diplomacy
Favorite (2014) It is August of 1944. Hitler gives orders to the German Military Governor of Paris that the city must be destroyed before the Allies can reach it. German and French with subtitles....
09
Jun
Estrellita
After his B-17 force-landed in Sweden on March 6, 1944, my father, bombardier Herman F. Allen, spent the rest of the year in Stockholm working in the office of the Military Air Attache. One evening, he met the beautiful singer, Rosita Serrano. ...
03
Jun
Escape and Evasion into Sweden
Whenever an American airman escaped or evaded capture in Denmark or Norway, he would be taken to the Legation in Stockholm to be questioned by the American Air Attache and his aides, one of which was my father....
28
May
Roswell Remembers Memorial Day 2015
The featured speaker at this year's Memorial Day in Roswell, GA, was Christina Olds. She wrote a book about her father, Robin Olds. Her father! I perked up right away. Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds. ...
08
May
Stockholm – The War in Europe is Over!
On May 7, 1945, word came to Stockholm that Germany had signed military surrender documents. It was a glorious sunny day....
22
Apr
The Last Sentence
Favorite (2012) Based on the WWII era life and career of Torgny Segerstedt, the editor-in-chief of the Swedish newspaper, the Gothenburg Trade and Maritime Journal. ...