by jeff.sanders | Feb 22, 2017 | Blog
Many, many years ago as I studied World War II my mind was filled with stories of the Allies valiantly fighting the evil Nazis and Imperial Japanese and in the end we vanquished all the evil empires and brought the villains to justice. Well, of course, that was...
by jeff.sanders | Feb 18, 2017 | Blog
Unit 731. Unit 1644. Unit 100. These were the main killing units of the Imperial Japanese military’s experiments in biological and chemical warfare. From 1935 to 1945 Unit 731 and it’s “siblings” murdered an estimated 250,000 human beings in...
by jeff.sanders | Jan 31, 2017 | Blog
An elite force within an elite force? It was quite the radical idea over 70 years ago in the early years of World War II. But President Franklin Roosevelt had been captivated by the success of newly formed British commandos and their raids against the Germans (most...
by jeff.sanders | Jan 29, 2017 | Blog
She was offered a blindfold, but refused it and looked straight ahead at the firing squad as they were given the order to fire. Hannah Senesh was a Hungarian young lady who had emigrated to Israel (called the British Mandate of Palestine” at the time) in 1939....
by jeff.sanders | Jan 24, 2017 | Blog
By 1942 the US military saw the need for an elite light infantry unit that could penetrate deep behind enemy lines, destroy supply depots, intercept enemy convoys and communications, and seize key airfields. In 1943 the US Army created the 5307th Composite Unit, also...
