Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Man nobody will comment!!
Well Since NOBODY LOOKS AT MY BLOG (LET ALONE COMMENT) I just wont Post any more =p Man !!!
Friday, March 6, 2009
Seconed WWII post =)
Here is the next fact.
2. The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded in combat and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. (His benefits were later restored by act of Congress)
Calvin Leon Graham (April 3, 1930 - November 6, 1992) was youngest person ever to enlist in the United States Navy, and the youngest U.S. serviceman during World War II. He enlisted in the Navy at age 12 following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
He was wounded at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, while serving aboard the USS South Dakota. During the battle, he helped in the fire control efforts aboard the South Dakota, but suffered shrapnel wounds in the process. For his actions he was awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. However, his mother later revealed his age, and after spending months in a brig (he was not released until after his sister threatened to contact the newspapers), he was dishonorably discharged for lying about his age and lost his disability benefits.
Graham later joined the United States Marines at age 17, but his service ended about three years later when he fell from a pier and broke his back.[1] Although serving in the Marines qualified him as a veteran, he would spend the rest of his life fighting for medical benefits and a clean record. In 1978, he was finally awarded an honorable discharge, and after writing to Congress and with the approval of President Jimmy Carter, all medals but his Purple Heart were reinstated. He received disability and back pay in 1988.[2][3]
His Purple Heart was finally reinstated and presented to his widow, Mary, nearly two years after his death.[1]
2. The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded in combat and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. (His benefits were later restored by act of Congress)
Calvin Leon Graham (April 3, 1930 - November 6, 1992) was youngest person ever to enlist in the United States Navy, and the youngest U.S. serviceman during World War II. He enlisted in the Navy at age 12 following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
He was wounded at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, while serving aboard the USS South Dakota. During the battle, he helped in the fire control efforts aboard the South Dakota, but suffered shrapnel wounds in the process. For his actions he was awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. However, his mother later revealed his age, and after spending months in a brig (he was not released until after his sister threatened to contact the newspapers), he was dishonorably discharged for lying about his age and lost his disability benefits.
Graham later joined the United States Marines at age 17, but his service ended about three years later when he fell from a pier and broke his back.[1] Although serving in the Marines qualified him as a veteran, he would spend the rest of his life fighting for medical benefits and a clean record. In 1978, he was finally awarded an honorable discharge, and after writing to Congress and with the approval of President Jimmy Carter, all medals but his Purple Heart were reinstated. He received disability and back pay in 1988.[2][3]
His Purple Heart was finally reinstated and presented to his widow, Mary, nearly two years after his death.[1]
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Weekly world war 2 post.
Here are some interesting facts that i found on WWII and I will TRY to post one once or twice a week=)
1. The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), the highest ranking American killed was LtGen. Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps.
I found this and then I found some more imfo on it.
Not really....There were two US Navy sailors killed when the Japanese bombed and sank the USS Panay, a gunboat, in 1937, on the Yangtze River in China. This is not generally considered part of WWII though - more of an event leading up to it. The Japanese were at war, attacking China, but five other nations had gunboats on Chinese rivers. They clearly meant to do this, and deliberately attacked the ship, but they apologized and paid reparations, so the US let it pass.There were also US sailors killed in the fall of 1941 by German U-Boats, while escorting UK-bound convoys to mid Atlantic. The German sank one US destroyer and heavily damaged another, both with large loss of life. Roosevelt did not seek a declaration of war from Congress over these incidents, possibly because he was on pretty thin ice as regards the Neutrality Act. The first official American casualties were at Pearl Harbor.The Russians fought the Finns in 1940, in the "winter war", and took many casualties. They had fought a brief but bloody series of battles with the Japanese before this, along the border with China, but both decided they had enough going on and did not let it develop into an all out war, and afterward maintained an uneasy peace, which lasted until Russia got into the war against Japan for the last week.The first Germans killed would have been in their invasion of Poland, in September 1939.Lesley McNair was one of two three-star Lt Gens killed in the war, and he was killed in July 1944 by bombs dropped short by the US Army Air Force (it had changed from the Army Air Corps in 1940). The other was Lt Gen Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., killed in the Okinawa operation in the Pacific. Buckner's father had been a Confederate general, who surrendered Fort Donelson to U. S. Grant in 1862, when Grant got his "Unconditional Surrender" nickname. He probably thought these were uncharitable terms from his old friend Sam Grant. It was the first time they had seen one another since Grant had resigned from the prewar army under a cloud, due to his heavy drinking. Buckner Sr had loaned Grant the money to travel back east from their duty station in California. Its not recorded whether Grant ever repaid the loan.
Well there is my long post for the next five years B-)
1. The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), the highest ranking American killed was LtGen. Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps.
I found this and then I found some more imfo on it.
Not really....There were two US Navy sailors killed when the Japanese bombed and sank the USS Panay, a gunboat, in 1937, on the Yangtze River in China. This is not generally considered part of WWII though - more of an event leading up to it. The Japanese were at war, attacking China, but five other nations had gunboats on Chinese rivers. They clearly meant to do this, and deliberately attacked the ship, but they apologized and paid reparations, so the US let it pass.There were also US sailors killed in the fall of 1941 by German U-Boats, while escorting UK-bound convoys to mid Atlantic. The German sank one US destroyer and heavily damaged another, both with large loss of life. Roosevelt did not seek a declaration of war from Congress over these incidents, possibly because he was on pretty thin ice as regards the Neutrality Act. The first official American casualties were at Pearl Harbor.The Russians fought the Finns in 1940, in the "winter war", and took many casualties. They had fought a brief but bloody series of battles with the Japanese before this, along the border with China, but both decided they had enough going on and did not let it develop into an all out war, and afterward maintained an uneasy peace, which lasted until Russia got into the war against Japan for the last week.The first Germans killed would have been in their invasion of Poland, in September 1939.Lesley McNair was one of two three-star Lt Gens killed in the war, and he was killed in July 1944 by bombs dropped short by the US Army Air Force (it had changed from the Army Air Corps in 1940). The other was Lt Gen Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., killed in the Okinawa operation in the Pacific. Buckner's father had been a Confederate general, who surrendered Fort Donelson to U. S. Grant in 1862, when Grant got his "Unconditional Surrender" nickname. He probably thought these were uncharitable terms from his old friend Sam Grant. It was the first time they had seen one another since Grant had resigned from the prewar army under a cloud, due to his heavy drinking. Buckner Sr had loaned Grant the money to travel back east from their duty station in California. Its not recorded whether Grant ever repaid the loan.
Well there is my long post for the next five years B-)
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