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August 25, 2015
Anchors Aweigh Giveaway Winner!
Thank you to everyone for joining me in celebrating the release of
Through Waters Deep!
Once again, I teamed with Litfuse Publicity for a blog tour and giveaway! It’s been such fun to follow the blog tour and see how readers are responding to Jim & Mary’s story of intrigue, danger, and romance! We had 4159 entries!
I’m pleased to announce the winner of the Through Waters Deep Anchors Aweigh giveaway ! The winner is…
Hannah LeFevers! Hannah, please contact info@litfusegroup.com with your mailing information.
Hannah will receive:
A copy of Through Waters Deep
A nautical tote bag
A set of compass rose notecards
A “Hope Anchors the Soul” journal
A Boston Tea Party earl grey tea set
A Through Waters Deep apron
A set of nautical tea towels
Today in World War II History—Aug. 25, 1940 & 1945
RAF Wellington bomber. Wellingtons were used in the first night raid on Berlin. (UK Government photo)
75 Years Ago—Aug. 25, 1940: RAF begins night-time bombing of Berlin.
70 Years Ago—Aug. 25, 1945: In China US Capt. John Birch killed in skirmish with Communists, “first casualty of Third World War.” In French Indochina, Emperor Bao Dai abdicates, ending Nguyen Dynasty.
August 24, 2015
Today in World War II History—Aug. 24, 1940 & 1945
German Heinkel He 111 bombers over the English Channel, 1940 (German Federal Archive, Bild 141-0678)
75 Years Ago—Aug. 24, 1940: Third phase of Battle of Britain begins: Luftwaffe begins intense bombing on RAF fields, supplies, and plants. Luftwaffe mistakenly drops bombs over London. USS Constitution named symbolic flagship of US Fleet at Boston. Medical journal Lancet publishes first study by Howard Florey and Ernest Chain about penicillin.
70 Years Ago—Aug. 24, 1945: British Prime Minister Clement Attlee complains about end of US Lend-Lease program. Australian Volunteer Defence Corps (home defense) is disbanded.
August 23, 2015
Today in World War II History—Aug. 23, 1940 & 1945
75 Years Ago—Aug. 23, 1940: RAF cuts pilot training period from 1 month to 2 weeks.
70 Years Ago—Aug. 23, 1945: Britain ratifies UN Charter.
August 22, 2015
Today in World War II History—Aug. 22, 1940 & 1945
British 9.2-inch coastal artillery gun crew in exercise, Culver Point Battery, Isle of Wight, England, 24 Aug 1940 (Imperial War Museum)
75 Years Ago—Aug. 22, 1940: First cross-Channel artillery duel—Germans bombard Dover and British reply.
70 Years Ago—Aug. 22, 1945: In Manchuria, Japanese surrender to Soviets, and the Soviets seize Port Arthur. Japanese forces at Mille Atoll, Marshalls surrender aboard destroyer escort USS Levy, the first voluntary handover of an island.
Surrender negotiations at Mille Atoll, Marshall Islands, aboard USS Levy, 19 Aug 1945. (US National Archives)
August 21, 2015
Today in World War II History—Aug. 21, 1940 & 1945
Leon Trotsky and American admirers. Mexico, 5 April 1940 (US National Archives)
75 Years Ago—Aug. 21, 1940: In Mexico City, Leon Trotsky, a critic of Stalin, dies from assassination attack by NKVD agent Ramón Mercader the day before.
70 Years Ago—Aug. 21, 1945: President Truman ends Lend-Lease program with Britain. Last surface action of war: Japanese junk attacks 2 Chinese junks with US/Chinese crews; 45 Japanese & 4 Chinese are killed.
August 20, 2015
Today in World War II History—Aug. 20, 1940 & 1945
British poster, WWII (Imperial War Museum)
75 Years Ago—Aug. 20, 1940: Churchill praises RAF to House of Commons—“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” Germans withdraw Ju 87 Stukas from combat over Britain after heavy losses.
70 Years Ago—Aug. 20, 1945: Norwegian Nazi collaborator Vidkun Quisling is placed on trial for treason in Oslo. US War Production Board lifts production controls on 210 consumer items.
August 19, 2015
Today in World War II History—Aug. 19, 1940 & 1945
Japanese POWs at Guam listen to Emperor Hirohito’s surrender announcement, 15 Aug 1945. (US National Archives)
75 Years Ago—Aug. 19, 1940: Italians occupy Berbera, capital of British Somaliland. US Civil Aeronautics Administration issues first pilot’s license, an honorary one to Orville Wright, born on this date in 1871. Maiden flight of production North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
70 Years Ago—Aug. 19, 1945: Japanese soldiers are told that surrendering under cease-fire doesn’t break Bushido code. Chiang Kai-shek forbids Japanese to surrender to Communist Chinese; they must surrender to the Nationalists.
August 18, 2015
Today in World War II History—Aug. 18, 1940 & 1945
Allied POWS in Nagoya, Japan leave messages of thanks on the roofs of their huts for supplies dropped to them from aircraft from the USS Wasp, 28 Aug 1945 (National Museum of Naval Aviation)
75 Years Ago—Aug. 18, 1940: Walter P. Chrysler, founder of Chrysler Corporation, dies at age 65. German-American Bund (Nazi) and Ku Klux Klan hold anti-war rally in New Jersey.
70 Years Ago—Aug. 18, 1945: In last air conflict of war, US reconnaissance planes are attacked by flak and fighters over Tokyo, 1 killed (photographer Sgt. Anthony Marchione), the last American killed in the war, 2 Japanese fighters are shot down. US begins parachuting medical teams into Japanese POW camps. New songs in the Top Ten: “Till the End of Time,” “On the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe.”
August 17, 2015
Today in World War II History—Aug. 17, 1940 & 1945
First edition of George Orwell’s Animal Farm
75 Years Ago—Aug. 17, 1940: Germany announces total air and sea blockade of Great Britain. Duke of Windsor sworn in as Governor of Bahamas. First US pilot volunteering with RAF dies (crash-landed 8/16)—William Fiske pretended to be Canadian, the only American killed in the Battle of Britain.
70 Years Ago—Aug. 17, 1945: Ho Chi Minh calls on Vietnamese people to begin Communist revolution. Korea divided on 38th parallel, with US in south, USSR in north. Dutch East Indies proclaims independence from the Netherlands, calling itself the Republic of Indonesia. Animal Farm by George Orwell is published in London.
