On June 5, 1942, the Herald-News in Joliet reported on one of the deadliest industrial accidents in state history: the explosion at the Elwood Ordnance Plant. At 2:41 a.m., an explosion […]
Tag: World War II
Q&A with Mussolini’s Army in the French Riviera author Emanuele Sica
Emanuele Sica is professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada. He answered some questions about his book Mussolini’s Army in the French Riviera: Italy’s Occupation of France. Q: Was the […]
Remembering Hedda Kalshoven
Hedda Kalshoven lived history, and as part of that living, restored it to the rest of us. In 1920, her mother arrived in the Netherlands as part of a program that ferried German children […]
The Barb sinks a carrier
Seventy years ago today, the American submarine USS Barb torpedoed the Japanese carrier Unyo in the South China Sea, one of the legendary feats of the famed sub and its skipper, […]