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Jos� Enrique Varela

C. Peter Chen — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:00:00

Jos� Enrique Varela Iglesias was born in Cadiz, Spain. He was an enlisted man during the second Rif War. Before the war was over, he returned to Spain and attended the infantry school, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant upon graduation. During the third Rif War, he was awarded the Hono...

Commission Announced Official Dresden Bombing Death Toll

C. Peter Chen — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:00:00

An official German report, published by the Dresden Historians' Commission after five years of research, puts the death toll of the Feb 1945 Dresden bombing at 25,000. This number matched ...

The Reichstag Fire

C. Peter Chen — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:00:00

In an attempt to gain a stronger hold in the German parliament, Chancellor Adolf Hitler convinced President Paul von Hindenburg to dissolve the current parliament and call for a new election, which was to take place on 5 Mar 1933. If the Nazi Party could gain two-thirds majority in the parliamen...

Marine Sid Phillips dot com

C. Peter Chen — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:54:22

Bumping around the web this morning, I came across Marine Sid Phillips dot com. It looks like a Phillips family production meant to capitalize on the airing of HBO's The Pacific. And why not? He has a book called "You'll be SOR-RE"...

38 cm Siegfried K (E)

C. Peter Chen — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:00:00

When the German Navy discovered that it had four surplus 38-centimeter guns after the Bismarck-class battleships were completed, they were transferred to the German Army, originally intended for coastal defense duties. The German manufacturing firm Krupp mounted them on rail cars and designated ...

M10 Wolverine

C. Peter Chen — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:00:00

In Jun 1942, prototype tank destroyer T35E1 was finalized into the 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage M10 and ordered into full production. A variant design was developed for British use, which was designated as (Gun) 3 inch Self Propelled Wolverine by the British Army. They were built upon the M4 Sherm...

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

C. Peter Chen — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:00:00

On 6 Jul 1945, while President of the United States Harry Truman was at Potsdam, Germany to meet with his Allied counterparts, long-waited results reached him: The Manhattan Project, the American effort at building the atomic bomb, successfully detonated the first bomb during a test at Los Alamos...

The Pacific: Around the Web

C. Peter Chen — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:36:52

Trolling around the net this morning, I noticed about 750 articles were available about the series (via Google News). Some highlights:

HBO is offering the first episode online for a limited time.