Evocative piece Brenda, my father was a firefighter when the Second World War broke out and although based in northeast England was transferred to London to help fight fires during the Blitz. The fire station on the Euston Road in which he was stationed is still in use today. As you can imagine he had many a tale to tell of that time. 327 firefighters were killed in London and the monument commemorating those 'Angels with Grimy Faces' is near St Paul's Cathedral.
Great combination of Ernie Pyle’s words and the wonderful set of historical photos!
Ernie Pyle was killed on the little island of Ie Shima, part of the Okinawa invasion in April 1945. Although the war was about over, he had a strong premonition that he wouldn’t survive it.
As a kid, a friend of my dad’s got shot in the chest on the same island. Purportedly, the doctors never removed the bullet because it was too close to the heart. The things you remember!
Evocative piece Brenda, my father was a firefighter when the Second World War broke out and although based in northeast England was transferred to London to help fight fires during the Blitz. The fire station on the Euston Road in which he was stationed is still in use today. As you can imagine he had many a tale to tell of that time. 327 firefighters were killed in London and the monument commemorating those 'Angels with Grimy Faces' is near St Paul's Cathedral.
Great combination of Ernie Pyle’s words and the wonderful set of historical photos!
Ernie Pyle was killed on the little island of Ie Shima, part of the Okinawa invasion in April 1945. Although the war was about over, he had a strong premonition that he wouldn’t survive it.
As a kid, a friend of my dad’s got shot in the chest on the same island. Purportedly, the doctors never removed the bullet because it was too close to the heart. The things you remember!