Residents at Manor Park, Spencer Blocker and L.B. Taylor Jr. are both U.S. Army veterans. They talk about their time in the service and honor their fallen comrades.
SERVICEMEMBERS, veterans, military families, guests, and community members gathered at the CNMI Veterans Cemetery in Marpi on Monday morning in observance of Memorial Day, to pay tribute to the military
Story by: Maeve Sheehey, Photos by: Nash Consing Private First Class Harold Frank heard his fellow soldiers talking themselves to sleep at night. “We’re gonna starve to death,” they’d say, again and again. Frank covered his ears. He was barely into adulthood, and he was in a prisoner of war camp in Germany. The little food they […]
Operation Unthinkable: Churchill’s top secret plan to invade Russia
Britain s current relationship with Russia is said to be icy – but that s nothing compared to the blueprint for war drawn up 76 years ago
23 May 2021 • 6:00am
Just days after the Red Army captured Berlin, Churchill ordered his joint planning staff at the war office to draw up plans for a massive offensive against the Soviet Union
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“Close to frozen” is how Andrey Kelin, Russia’s ambassador to the UK, recently described relations between London and Moscow. His frankness raised a few diplomatic eyebrows, but the comment should come as no surprise. Ever since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, hostility between the two nations has been the norm – not the exception.