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Video of War Veteran’s Memories of Pilsen in 1945 “My name is Robert Muthersbaugh. I was with the 16th Armoured division. I was the chief radio operator, so my vehicle was one of the first ones into Pilsen - we came in a halftrack. And it was an honour and a privilege to free the Czech people…” Mr Muthersbaugh was 23 years old at the time and celebrates his 100th birthday in October. But he vividly recalls the warm welcome the soldiers of General George Patton’s Third Army received, a...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. I am so thankful that as a nation we have the privilege of joining together in prayer during the annual National Day of Prayer on May 6, as I believe our country is in need of prayer more than ever.   As I think about what a National Day of Prayer means, I am reminded of the powerful painting "The Prayer at Valley Forge" by  Arnold Friberg, depicting Gen. George Washington kneeling beside his horse in th...

Dreamcatcher Offers Online “Meet the Artist” New Play Readings Presented as part of New Jersey Theatre Alliance Stages Festival in May.by BWW News Desk Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, professional Theatre in Residence at the Oakes Center in Summit, will present its annual Meet the Artist new play reading series on Wednesdays, May 5, 12, 19 and 26. All readings will take place on Zoom at 7 pm, and require advance registration. This event is part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance 2021 Stage...

  Dreamcatcher Offers Online "Meet the Artist" New Play Readings as part of Stages Festival in May (SUMMIT, NJ) -- Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre will present its annual Meet the Artist new play reading series on Wednesdays, May 5, 12, 19 and 26. All readings will take place on Zoom at 7:00pm, and require advance registration. The new play reading series is a chance for the audience to participate in the development of new works, both to hear the plays read by professional actors and also to ...

General Patton was angered and revolted by what he saw at the Nazi concentration camp.  Heres What You Need to Remember: American officers tried to determine the exact number of persons who died during Buchenwald’s nearly eight years of operation, but it was no easy task. The blue arrows on Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.’s Third Army situation maps in his mobile headquarters trailer all pointed eastward. From the vicinity of Frankfurt-am-Main, Patton’s three corps—Troy Middleton’s...

Roy Exum: Liberate Pilsen Again! Monday, April 12, 2021 - by Roy Exum Roy Exum Dear President Biden … A perfect caper has just landed in our lap and, Mr. Commander-in-Chief, according to the School of Free Thought, we can have a hot-diggedy time with this one. Not many on your cabinet will know this but on May 6 th, 1945, the “Fightin’ Armadillos,” which you’ll recognize as the 16 th Armored of General Patton’s Third Army, liberated Plzen, Czechoslovakia from despicable Nazi G...

(April 9, 2021) This week, 80 years ago, five Axis armies, from three countries, attacked the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. On Oct. 28, 1940, the German dictator arrived in Florence, Italy on his personal train, the Amerika. As he alighted from the Amerika, the Italian Duce bounded forward and gleefully exclaimed, in German, “Führer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albania frontier at dawn today!” Twice the Italians had been specifically warned by their Ge...

NGOs must report before aiding refugees 2 published : 5 Apr 2021 at 05:30 2 Non-governmental organisations looking to provide aid supplies to refugees fleeing Myanmar near the border should first contact local authorities, according to the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Activists and NGOs have reported that Thai authorities bar them from reaching the border with Myanmar, preventing them from providing assistance to Myanmar refugees. Lt Gen Apichet Suesat, commander of th...

“War may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men” (“George S. Patton”). This quote was said by one of the greatest and most influential United States Generals we have ever had, General George S. Patton. During his childhood and his military training no one would have thought that Patton would one day lead the Third Army and play a major role in achieving victory over the Germans in World War Two. As a child and an adult Patton did not have very good academic skills a...

Antiwar.com Original The False Promise of Universal National Serviceby Doug Bandow Posted on War fires the imagination, especially of those who never suffered its horrors. Washington, D.C.’s faux heroes find nothing so courageous as sending other people off to fight and die in one grand cause or another. Of course, some professionals glory in death and gore, such as World War II’s Gen. George S. Patton. In his infamous speech to the Third Army he declared: "Men, all this stuff you hear abo...