Thursday, June 6, 2019
Why the Sixth or When Would Mother Nature Permit the Long-Planned Operation Overlord?
British RAF Captain James Martin Stagg advised General Eisenhower to delay the invasion one day until June 6th, 1944 as the Imperial War Museum's chart below illustrates. Favorable tides and moonlight also had to be coordinated.
D-Day Invasion Beaches' Numbers
The informative and timely chart below was provided by the Imperial War Museum in its free D-Day newspaper.
Friday, November 9, 2018
Annual Veterans Month Exhibit honors WWII Navy
The Niles-Maine Library District
gratefully acknowledges the generosity and insight shared in this exhibit by Niles resident, collector and historian, Chris Reuscher and his wife Laura.
Further details explaining the uniforms
of World War II can be read on Chris's website
http://www.usww2uniforms.com
“the place to discover and explore United States military uniforms & clothing of the WWII era.”
Charles “Chuck” Jacobs, the first World War II Niles resident, to be interviewed for the Niles Veterans History Project, served as Pharmacist’s Mate 2/C on the Destroyer Escort USS Sims which is depicted on the left in the exhibit backdrop.
Chuck’s interview and those of other veterans can be read upstairs in the Veterans History Corner
and via the library’s website at
https://www.nileslibrary.org/veterans-history-project
Labels:
Chris Reuscher,
World War II Uniforms
Saturday, November 3, 2018
12th Annual Veterans History Project Breakfast
70 in all attended a library signature event on Friday morning, November 2, as 22 veterans participated in the Roll Call. The Sweet Reminder Duet as the Andrews Sisters provided the musical finale, adding new numbers in tribute to the Vietnam veterans now in attendance.
The veterans appearing in the picture are from left to right in the first row: Mike McNulty (wheelchair), Mort Elenbogen, Ira Graham, Kenneth Lee, and William Shipp. In the first row seated in chairs on the stage from left to right are Charles Matz, Harry Webber, Matt Wojtaszek, Irv Abramson, Bette Horstman, Arthur Shapiro, and Ray Marchetta. Seated in the second row from left to right are Don Gloor, Pat Gerard (not visible), Roger Salamon and Rolf Hellman. Standing in the last row from left to right are Gary Warner, Michael Tuscano, Dennis Nilsson, Martin Passarella, John Andres, Jr., and Russel Zapel.
The veterans appearing in the picture are from left to right in the first row: Mike McNulty (wheelchair), Mort Elenbogen, Ira Graham, Kenneth Lee, and William Shipp. In the first row seated in chairs on the stage from left to right are Charles Matz, Harry Webber, Matt Wojtaszek, Irv Abramson, Bette Horstman, Arthur Shapiro, and Ray Marchetta. Seated in the second row from left to right are Don Gloor, Pat Gerard (not visible), Roger Salamon and Rolf Hellman. Standing in the last row from left to right are Gary Warner, Michael Tuscano, Dennis Nilsson, Martin Passarella, John Andres, Jr., and Russel Zapel.
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Timely New Book Recommended for the Centenary of the November 11,1918 Armistice
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Saturday, September 15, 2018
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