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World War Two Film Clips  A PM reporter was present one day in Germany as a mixed mob of Third Army grunts and tank men had a tête-à-tête concerning their observations of the German people:
"Aren't these Heinies the stupidest people you ever saw?" This article was written during a time when guerrilla armies seemed to be popping up all over the globe, and, no doubt, many men and women must have been asking themselves, "What if it happens here? Could I fight?" And with that, out stepped Bert "Yank" Levy (1897 - 1965), a well-seasoned man of war who wrote a mass market paperback for the English speaking world: Guerrilla Warfare (Amazon). Attached are a few pages from his book. "Somebody on our transport said that a transport ship was like a moving van. Somebody else said it was more like a freight car. But the Supply Officer, a short, skinny man who wrote poetry for the ship's daily paper, gave us the best description. He said that a transport was like a tenement house. That, I think, was the best I heard that day... A troopship is like a tenement house in many ways." "The motto of the Engineer Amphibian Command is "Put'em Across", and its principle is aptly put by Brigadier General Daniel Noce (1894−1976) , chief of the U.S. Army's amphibious operations in the European theater, who built this force from scratch. 'Water between us and the enemy is an avenue, not an obstacle' he says."
Within hours of the Pearl Harbor attack, the nations of Costa Rica, Nicaragua and the Dominion of Canada all declared war upon Imperial Japan. The United States wouldn't do so until the next morning.
Although there were a number of Latin American countries that declared war on the Axis, only two, Brazil and Mexico, put men in the field (Mexican nationals served in the U.S. military)- click here to read about the Brazilians. Five months before America entered the war, pollsters sallied forth onto the streets with numerous queries:
"On the question, 'Shall the United States enter the war to help Britain defeat Hitler?' The New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune found war sentiment ranging from 3 out of 10 voters in New York State to 2 out of 11 in Illinois." |
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