All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
― Thomas à Kempis
The Few, The Proud…
The Marines
He’s 1/2 way there. If that look can be mastered at such a young age I’d predict this young Marine will rank right up there with Chesty and Mattis.
Semper Fi, little man Oorah!
This was shared by a veteran on GPlus this evening, I had to share it here.
🙂
Ghost Soldiers: Rescue at Cabanatuan, WWII
via Ghost Soldiers
One of the most notorious enemy POW camps in World War II was the Cabanatuan Camp in the Philippine Islands. Many U.S. Army survivors of the infamous 1942 Bataan death march were eventually imprisoned at Caba
natuan. By the end of 1944 some 2,650 Americans had already died at the POW camp. It still housed about 500 POWS in January 1945 when an Allied invasion force under the command of General Douglas MacArthur landed on the main Philippine Island of Luzon. Read more
The Sad, Dark End of the British Empire
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Britain had dominion over so many portions of the Earth it was said, famously, that “the sun never set on the British Empire.” Since the end of World War II, however, that sun has been steadily dipping toward the horizon. Today, sundown is truly at hand. Read more
How a Jewish Doctor Duped the Nazis
The astonishing, untold story of the Buchenwald vaccine scam.
In late 1942, German troops were dying of typhus at the Eastern Front, and the SS medical chief Ernst-Robert Grawitz was impatient for vaccine—as was Heinrich Himmler himself. Typhus terrified the Nazis more than the allied armies did at the time. Nazi ideology had identified typhus, which is spread by lice, as a disease characteristic of parasitic, subhuman people—the Jews—and the Nazi medical profession was taking outrageous measures ostensibly to combat it. This included walling in or closing off Jewish ghettos in cities like Warsaw, Krakow and Lviv, assuring that the disease would indeed spread widely among Jews. That result didn’t bother the Nazis in the least. They had no concern about typhus and its terrifying burden of pain, high fever, psychosis and death—not until the germ began afflicting the German forces locked in battle with the Russians. Read more
The 6 Most Ingenious Misuses of Military Hardware: #6 Using Fighter Planes to Make Ice Cream
Language NSFW
War is serious business. Life-and-death stuff. Brutal, bloody and unrelenting. But who says it can’t also be fun?! Whether it’s fryin’ up some bacon, going sledding, or just taking the gang out for ice cream, here are six ingenious uses of combat equipment that prove a little war is no excuse to go without a party.
Maiden on the Midway 
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