British actor Ricard Todd was one of the paratroopers who took and held the Pegasus Bridge.

'Filthy Thirteen' by Joel Iskowitz

They planed up tonight, June 5th, in 1944.

Full story: Limited print depicts famous D-Day jump

(Cross-posted from Murdoc Online)

James Rummel has a guest post up at Murdoc Online, including a Nazi anti-armor weapon developed from a flare gun that Murdoc had never heard of.

Apparently there’s going to be a follow-up to the state quarters program from the US Mint, and the state of Massachusetts has a page where you can vote for the historic location to use.

Under Hampden County is this little spot: Springfield Armory National Historic Site

Lot of great hardware came out of that place. Got Murdoc’s vote.

Big hat tip to the reader who sent this in.

Happened across this image:

From the big 1938-39 German expedition to Tibet. The original caption reads something to the effect of

Timo and the Lepschajäger at the timber line in the Schapirevier on Schapi hunt.

A schapi is apparently some sort of Tibetan mountain goat:

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…we could help to combat terrorism

British column:

For anybody who still believed in it, the Mumbai shootings exposed the myth of “gun control”. India had some of the strictest firearms laws in the world, going back to the Indian Arms Act of 1878, by which Britain had sought to prevent a recurrence of the Indian Mutiny.

Funny how so much gun control has been openly about suppressing people and keeping a monopoly of force for the government.

The Mumbai massacre could happen in London tomorrow; but probably it could not have happened to Londoners 100 years ago.

In January 1909 two such anarchists, lately come from an attempt to blow up the president of France, tried to commit a robbery in north London, armed with automatic pistols. Edwardian Londoners, however, shot back – and the anarchists were pursued through the streets by a spontaneous hue-and-cry. The police, who could not find the key to their own gun cupboard, borrowed at least four pistols from passers-by, while other citizens armed with revolvers and shotguns preferred to use their weapons themselves to bring the assailants down.

The antis try their best to convince people that gun owners defending themselves are the rare exception. But history shows otherwise.

The first shots fired in anger on December 7th, 1941, were fired by the US Navy.

The first ship sunk on that day was Japanese.

A lot of people don’t know the story. See my Pearl Harbor Day post over at Murdoc Online for a picture of the men who scored a small victory on that day of infamy.