(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following column is the first of two featuring excerpts from World War II era letters written to former Rensselaer High School teacher and principal William Holt in
KENILWORTH, NJ - For generations, countless residents of the Borough of Kenilworth have served our nation's military. Kenilworth has been home to veterans of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812,.
Flight Lieutenant Peter Hood, Lancaster pilot shot down and captured during a raid over Nuremberg – obituary
He was held in Stalag Luft I on the Baltic coast and after the German guards left on April 30 1945 the Soviet troops arrived to take over
Peter Hook
Flight Lieutenant Peter Hood, who has died aged 98, was the pilot of a Lancaster bomber shot down during a raid on Nuremberg which resulted in Bomber Command’s heaviest loss of the war.
With the moon almost full, the bomber crews were not expecting to fly on the night of March 30/31 1944. However, based on a weather forecast that there would be some cloud cover, it was decided to attack Nuremberg, a city of huge symbolic importance to Nazi Germany.
Book World: Wrestling with the strategy - and morality - of the firebombing of Japan
Diana Preston, The Washington Post
April 23, 2021
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On the night of March 9, 1945, more than 300 U.S. Army Air ForcesB-29 Superfortress bombers took off from rudimentary airfields in the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific, retaken from the Japanese the previous summer. Their mission was to attack a 12-square-mile sector of central Tokyo containing the highly flammable, densely packed wooden dwellings of thousands of working-class families as well as industrial and commercial buildings. During the three-hour raid their bombs ignited a firestorm that was so intense it killed 100,000 people and sent up a glow that was visible 150 miles away. When the returning B-29s touched down, teams fumigated them to dissipate the smell of burning flesh. In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell takes readers on the