Campaign manager Robby Mook and longtime Clinton confidant John Podesta thought the deal ― in which Clinton had committed to speak at an event for the king on the condition of his $12 million donation ― would look bad. Clinton aide Huma Abedin tried to explain that it was simply too late to back out."
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Fox News Just Landed A Brutal, Clean Hit On Hillary Clinton's Campaign | Huffington Post
Fox News Just Landed A Brutal, Clean Hit On Hillary Clinton's Campaign | Huffington Post:
"In the beforetime, in the long, long ago of 2015, a woman named Hillary Clinton was about to launch her campaign for president. She was also trying really hard to secure $12 million for her family’s charitable foundation from King Mohammed VI of Morocco. And her campaign was freaking out about it.
Campaign manager Robby Mook and longtime Clinton confidant John Podesta thought the deal ― in which Clinton had committed to speak at an event for the king on the condition of his $12 million donation ― would look bad. Clinton aide Huma Abedin tried to explain that it was simply too late to back out."
Campaign manager Robby Mook and longtime Clinton confidant John Podesta thought the deal ― in which Clinton had committed to speak at an event for the king on the condition of his $12 million donation ― would look bad. Clinton aide Huma Abedin tried to explain that it was simply too late to back out."
Democratic Operative Robert Creamer Used Terror to Wage War on Honesty | Observer
Democratic Operative Robert Creamer Used Terror to Wage War on Honesty | Observer
"WHERE’S THE MEDIA OUTRAGE?": Democrat operative Robert Creamer ran a political terror operation — with the goal of influencing the 2016 election. (Instapundit)
(“Rigging The Election,” Part One, Part Two and Part Three, released October 24).
"WHERE’S THE MEDIA OUTRAGE?": Democrat operative Robert Creamer ran a political terror operation — with the goal of influencing the 2016 election. (Instapundit)
"Let’s be blunt: Democratic Party operative Robert Creamer used terror to wage war on honesty.
Until forced to resign his post as a “consultant” with a Democratic Party-aligned organization named Americans United for Change, Creamer ran what amounts to a domestic U.S. political terror and propaganda operation dedicated to undermining the 2016 U.S. presidential election—“rigging the election,” to use the current term.
Yes, Creamer’s operation uses terror—and three investigative videos recently released by Project Veritas contain information supporting my assessment.
(“Rigging The Election,” Part One, Part Two and Part Three, released October 24).
Creamer resigned as an official consultant because Part One and Part Two exposed him. His operation, however, remains active and continues to do damage.
The election rigging scheme he commanded relies on street thuggery.
That means physical fear—terror—is a core component of Americans United for Change’s crooked enterprise.
Street thuggery is very low-level terrorism, but it is a type of terrorism nonetheless and it is wrong to call it otherwise.
Hardboy muscle, bottles and two by fours are street thuggery’s kinetics.
Bottles and baseball bats are not Al Qaeda’s high explosives—but they incite fear and when they crack heads they cause casualties.
People bleed.
Street thuggery as an arm of politics is violent, criminalized politics on an ugly downward slope to much worse, the worse including lynchings and pogroms.
If you don’t think street thuggery is terror then consider Kristalnacht..."
Read on!
History for October 26
History for October 26 - On-This-Day.com
C.W. (Charles William) Post 1854 - Founder of Post cereals and products (Grape Nuts), Napoleon Hill 1883 - Writer (Think and Grow Rich), John S. (Shively) Knight 1894 - Reporter, editor, publisher (Knight-Ridder newspaper)
Francois Mitterand 1916 - President of France (1981-1995), Pat Sajak 1946 - TV host (Wheel of Fortune, The Pat Sajack Show), Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947 - First Lady: wife of 42nd U.S. President William J. Clinton, U.S. Senator from New York, U.S. Presidential candidate in 2008
1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000.
1858 - H.E. Smith patented the rotary-motion washing machine.
1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.
1942 - The U.S. ship Hornet was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz during World War II.
1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf ended. The battle was won by American forces and brought the end of the Pacific phase of World War II into sight.
1958 - Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York City to Paris.
1991 - Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry arrived at a federal correctional institution in Petersburg, VA, to begin serving a six-month sentence for cocaine possession.
1998 - A French lab found a nerve agent on an Iraqi missile warhead.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Wikileaks: Soros Memo Accused Obama of Fueling Radical Islam to Push TPP - Breitbart
Wikileaks: Soros Memo Accused Obama of Fueling Radical Islam to Push TPP - Breitbart:
"A March 2016 email published Monday by the organization Wikileaks reveals that George Soros, in anticipation of a meeting with Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, requested Podesta read a memo accusing President Barack Obama of emboldening radical Islam in Malaysia in order to get the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) passed."
Number of asylum seekers in Europe in 2015
Number of asylum seekers in Europe in 2015 | GEOstata:
"DEFINITION OF ASYLUM APPLICANTS:
„*Asylum applicant‘ means a person having submitted an application for international protection or having been included in such application as a family member during the reference period. ‚Application for international protection‘ means an application for international protection as defined in Art.2(h) of Directive 2011/95/EU, i.e. a request made by a third-country national or a stateless person for protection from a Member State, who can be understood to seek refugee status or subsidiary protection status, and who does not explicitly request another kind of protection, outside the scope of this Directive, that can be applied for separately.“ – European Union (Eurostat)"
"DEFINITION OF ASYLUM APPLICANTS:
„*Asylum applicant‘ means a person having submitted an application for international protection or having been included in such application as a family member during the reference period. ‚Application for international protection‘ means an application for international protection as defined in Art.2(h) of Directive 2011/95/EU, i.e. a request made by a third-country national or a stateless person for protection from a Member State, who can be understood to seek refugee status or subsidiary protection status, and who does not explicitly request another kind of protection, outside the scope of this Directive, that can be applied for separately.“ – European Union (Eurostat)"
Free-tuition activists stoked over arrests for blocking Michigan Ave
Free-tuition activists stoked over arrests for blocking Michigan Ave:
"Two University of Chicago students were arrested Monday after chaining themselves together and blocking traffic to protest for free college tuition.
The protest was part of a larger effort to sway an Art Institute of Chicago trustee who is also a major donor to Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.
Donning caps and gowns, Johnathan Guy and Jessica Law chained themselves to two other protesters on Michigan Avenue in front of the Art Institute of Chicago until they were arrested, along with four other protesters, for impeding traffic, according to The Chicago Maroon.
“Bruce Rauner, Ken Griffin, and IL tax dodgers: Pay up for free higher ed.”
The protesters went limp during the arrest, as seen in a video by Chicago Student Action, one of the organizers of the protest.
The group that says it “fights for racial, economic, gender, & environmental justice at the campus/city/state levels...”
"Two University of Chicago students were arrested Monday after chaining themselves together and blocking traffic to protest for free college tuition.
Donning caps and gowns, Johnathan Guy and Jessica Law chained themselves to two other protesters on Michigan Avenue in front of the Art Institute of Chicago until they were arrested, along with four other protesters, for impeding traffic, according to The Chicago Maroon.
“Bruce Rauner, Ken Griffin, and IL tax dodgers: Pay up for free higher ed.”
The protesters went limp during the arrest, as seen in a video by Chicago Student Action, one of the organizers of the protest.
The group that says it “fights for racial, economic, gender, & environmental justice at the campus/city/state levels...”
Half of Detroit school board candidates had money troubles
Half of Detroit school board candidates had money troubles
"...Each candidate was given six weeks to respond to a questionnaire and asked to submit a résumé and a current photograph.
Not all candidates responded to those requests.
Some refused to be interviewed.
More than half of the candidates competing to lead the financially fragile Detroit public school district have filed for bankruptcy, or have had a foreclosure or an eviction, or have lost a lawsuit over unpaid bills, a local media partnership investigation shows.
The stakes for the Detroit Public Schools Community District are high.
Leaders statewide will be watching the Nov. 8 election closely because, just five months ago, the Legislature approved a historic $617-million financial restructuring plan for the district, which was on the verge of running out of money.
The election comes as Detroit emerges from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Many leaders insist that a strong public school system is imperative to the city's future.
Voters will face an exhausting list of 63 candidates when they go to the polls, and other than small forums, they have had little opportunity to meet the candidates.
The election is unlike any other the city has seen.
It was called four months ago, there was no primary and only the top seven finishers will win seats on the board..."
Lots here.
Read on!
"...Each candidate was given six weeks to respond to a questionnaire and asked to submit a résumé and a current photograph.
Not all candidates responded to those requests.
Some refused to be interviewed.
More than half of the candidates competing to lead the financially fragile Detroit public school district have filed for bankruptcy, or have had a foreclosure or an eviction, or have lost a lawsuit over unpaid bills, a local media partnership investigation shows.
Leaders statewide will be watching the Nov. 8 election closely because, just five months ago, the Legislature approved a historic $617-million financial restructuring plan for the district, which was on the verge of running out of money.
The election comes as Detroit emerges from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Many leaders insist that a strong public school system is imperative to the city's future.
Voters will face an exhausting list of 63 candidates when they go to the polls, and other than small forums, they have had little opportunity to meet the candidates.
The election is unlike any other the city has seen.
It was called four months ago, there was no primary and only the top seven finishers will win seats on the board..."
Lots here.
Read on!
FBI No. 2 pressured to resign over McAuliffe donations to wife | Washington Examiner
FBI No. 2 pressured to resign over McAuliffe donations to wife | Washington Examiner:
"The FBI's second in command is facing pressure over donations Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a top Clinton ally, made to the official's wife who was running an uphill battle against a popular conservative Northern Virginia state senator.
That senator, Dick Black, on Monday called for the resignation of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe."
That senator, Dick Black, on Monday called for the resignation of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe."
Descent into Evil :: SteynOnline
Descent into Evil :: SteynOnline:
"Earlier this year, in the Munk Debate on the "refugee" crisis in Europe, I touched on the epidemic of child gang-rape on the Continent and observed that "migrant rights now trump children's rights":
"Earlier this year, in the Munk Debate on the "refugee" crisis in Europe, I touched on the epidemic of child gang-rape on the Continent and observed that "migrant rights now trump children's rights":
"Migrant rights now trump children's rights." Hold that thought:
AN IRAQI asylum seeker who confessed to raping a 10-year-old boy in a swimming pool, claiming it was a "sexual emergency", has had his conviction overturned.
This was a Viennese rape case that received quite a bit of coverage a few months ago, mainly because of the accused's defense that he was undergoing a "sexual emergency": Like almost 80 per cent of "refugees", Amir is a fit young man. He'd scrammed out of the country leaving his wife behind and therefore had not enjoyed conjugal relations for four months. Hence the "sexual emergency":
When the youngster went to the showers, Amir A. allegedly followed him, pushed him into a toilet cubicle, and violently sexually assaulted him.Following the attack, the accused rapist returned to the pool and was practising on the diving board when police arrived, after the 10-year-old raised the alarm with the lifeguard.The child suffered severe anal injuries which had to be treated at a local children's hospital, and is still plagued by serious post-traumatic stress disorder.
Amir was convicted of rape and serious sexual assault of a minor and sentenced to six years. However, the Austrian Supreme Court has now quashed the verdict. But hang on, didn't the guy confess? Ah, yes, but...
The Supreme Court yesterday overturned the conviction, accepting the defence lawyer's claim that the original court had not done enough to ascertain whether or not the rapist realised the child was saying no...
You might think the screams would have been a clue there, but apparently not:
Read on!The appeal court said the initial ruling should have dealt with whether the offender thought that the victim had agreed with the sexual act, or whether he had intended to act against his will.
$1 Billion of Tax Money Thrown Into a Growing Deficit
$1 Billion of Tax Money Thrown Into a Growing Deficit [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Michigan lawmakers are proud of their fiscal prudence for putting an extra $1 billion into the school employee pension fund.
But the extra state payments have been insufficient to pay even the interest on the debt, let alone catch up on the $26.7 billion of unfunded liabilities in the system.
The state determines the amount of money the pension system needs each year based on an actuarial assessment that looks at how much is being earned in benefits by employees and how much the state still owes in pension debt.
This is different from Social Security and Medicare, where the government sets a contribution rate and leaves it unchanged.
The amount the state is supposed to pay for the school pension system has increased with the system’s growing unfunded liabilities.
The recommended inputs increased from $1 billion in 2009 to $2.2 billion in 2015, as unfunded liabilities increased from $12.0 billion to $26.7 billion.
(This is in addition to other contributions made to provide subsidized medical insurance to school retirees.)..."
Read on!
"Michigan lawmakers are proud of their fiscal prudence for putting an extra $1 billion into the school employee pension fund.
But the extra state payments have been insufficient to pay even the interest on the debt, let alone catch up on the $26.7 billion of unfunded liabilities in the system.
This is different from Social Security and Medicare, where the government sets a contribution rate and leaves it unchanged.
The amount the state is supposed to pay for the school pension system has increased with the system’s growing unfunded liabilities.
The recommended inputs increased from $1 billion in 2009 to $2.2 billion in 2015, as unfunded liabilities increased from $12.0 billion to $26.7 billion.
(This is in addition to other contributions made to provide subsidized medical insurance to school retirees.)..."
Read on!
WikiLeaks Exposes Plot to Discredit Clinton Email Investigation | LifeZette
WikiLeaks Exposes Plot to Discredit Clinton Email Investigation | LifeZette:
"An email released by WikiLeaks Sunday suggests Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill may have been the originator of a mass Democratic effort to discredit an investigation by the State Department’s independent watchdog into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
The email in question is a list of recent voicemail messages left for Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta around Oct. 6, 2015, including one from McCaskill."
The email in question is a list of recent voicemail messages left for Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta around Oct. 6, 2015, including one from McCaskill."
THE WIKILEAKS LIST: At Least 65 MSM Reporters Were Meeting with and/or Coordinating Offline with Top Hillary Advisors
THE WIKILEAKS LIST: At Least 65 MSM Reporters Were Meeting with and/or Coordinating Offline with Top Hillary Advisors:
"A few of the “journalists” meeting offline with Hillary advisers
NO FOX NEWS REPORTERS MADE THE LIST!
"A few of the “journalists” meeting offline with Hillary advisers
Thanks to Wikileaks we now know that at least 65 mainstream reporters were working closely with the Clinton campaign this election year.
They were invited to top elitist dinners with Hillary Campaign Chairman John Podesta or Chief Campaign strategist Joel Benenson.
They were invited to top elitist dinners with Hillary Campaign Chairman John Podesta or Chief Campaign strategist Joel Benenson.
NO FOX NEWS REPORTERS MADE THE LIST!
These 65 mainstream reporters CAN NEVER BE TRUSTED:
As previously reported— At least 38 top national reporters attended a different dinner at John Podesta’s house in April 2015.
As previously reported— At least 38 top national reporters attended a different dinner at John Podesta’s house in April 2015.
The Clinton campaign sent out invites to New York reporters in April 2015 on their off-the-record meeting on how to sell Hillary Clinton to the public.
These 38 reporters should NEVER BE TRUSTED!...
These 38 reporters should NEVER BE TRUSTED!...
Via The Intercept:...
Another group of 25 mainstream reporters were invited to a dinner at Jhn Podesta’s house on April 9.
Another group of 25 mainstream reporters were invited to a dinner at Jhn Podesta’s house on April 9.
This was a completely different list of reporters!...
Here is the current RSVP list to the Thursday Night (4/9) dinner at
Podesta’s. As a reminder, this is with the 25 reporters more closely
following HRC (aka the future bus).(hint: all replied "yes")
We also know that Politico’s chief political correspondent Glenn Thrush was sending the Hillary campaign articles for their review before publishing.
We know CNBC and New York Times reporter John Harwood was working with the Clinton campaign to help Hillary.
At least 65 mainstream media reporters were chummy with the Hillary campaign from the beginning."
Mosquitoes May Meet Their End Thanks to Marlon Brando
Mosquitoes May Meet Their End Thanks to Marlon Brando
"Every year, mosquitoes kill more humans than any other animal—including our fellow humans—due to the deadly diseases they carry, with Zika being merely the latest high-profile threat.
Now, a new multipurpose strategy could one day control mosquito disease transmission as a whole. And one of the hottest frontiers in this effort is, strangely enough, Marlon Brando’s private island.
The late actor fell in love with and secured ownership of the Polynesian atoll of Tetiaroa in 1967. Now the area is home to one of the most successful mosquito-control efforts on Earth.
In just six months, without the use of chemical pesticides or genetic modification, researchers have freed one of the atoll’s islets from Aedes polynesiensis, an invasive mosquito species that is the vector of diseases such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika.
It’s a simple process: Introduce certain male mosquitoes that will mate with and sterilize the wild females in a particular locale, rendering their eggs nonviable.
After a few rounds of such treatment, the population is unable to reproduce itself and collapses..."
"Every year, mosquitoes kill more humans than any other animal—including our fellow humans—due to the deadly diseases they carry, with Zika being merely the latest high-profile threat.
Now, a new multipurpose strategy could one day control mosquito disease transmission as a whole. And one of the hottest frontiers in this effort is, strangely enough, Marlon Brando’s private island.
In just six months, without the use of chemical pesticides or genetic modification, researchers have freed one of the atoll’s islets from Aedes polynesiensis, an invasive mosquito species that is the vector of diseases such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika.
It’s a simple process: Introduce certain male mosquitoes that will mate with and sterilize the wild females in a particular locale, rendering their eggs nonviable.
After a few rounds of such treatment, the population is unable to reproduce itself and collapses..."
Blog: Buried Clinton impeachment documents must be devastating
Blog: Buried Clinton impeachment documents must be devastating
"In the current election environment, in which the media have determined that boorish behavior toward women in the past is the principle issue facing the Republic, attention inevitably goes to Bill Clinton, who was, after all impeached in the wake of a sexual scandal in which he perjured himself.
"In the current election environment, in which the media have determined that boorish behavior toward women in the past is the principle issue facing the Republic, attention inevitably goes to Bill Clinton, who was, after all impeached in the wake of a sexual scandal in which he perjured himself.
Kerry Pickett of The Daily Caller has an illuminating piece, in which she explains how tens of thousands of pages of impeachment documents, the contents of voluminous investigations under oath, are hidden away from the pubic eye.
She then quotes from a radio interview on American Family Radio’s Sandy Rios show Friday with Thomas Shippers, the Democrat who was appointed chief investigative counsel for the House Judiciary Committee. I recommend reading the entire piece, but here is one important excerpt:
She then quotes from a radio interview on American Family Radio’s Sandy Rios show Friday with Thomas Shippers, the Democrat who was appointed chief investigative counsel for the House Judiciary Committee. I recommend reading the entire piece, but here is one important excerpt:
“When they announced they had all the materials in the room, I put my staff together and said, ‘Alright-look, if this is nothing but Monica Lewinsky—if this is nothing but sex, we’ll be out of here in a couple of weeks.Here’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna look at everything. We’re gonna listen to everything. We’re gonna read every word. Each one of us is going to do it.’”He added, “There were some 60,000 documents in there plus telephone calls–all kind of stuff.” (snip)Schippers says that after two weeks he sat his team of investigators down and asked each one for their reaction to what they read.“And one by one they said, ‘He’s gotta go. The man’s a perjurer. He’s been after women. He’s been doing everything in his power to shut everybody up. The man should be impeached.’ So, I went to Henry Hyde and I said, ‘They’re going to recommend an impeachment inquiry,’” Schippers said.
Oh, and by the way, Schippers makes it clear that the Senate trial of Bill Clinton was fixed."
Articles: Clinton Thug Robert Creamer Planned Obamacare in Jail
"As Breitbart has reported, Creamer, in addition to being the inspiration for ObamaCare, was also involved in heavily promoting the Iran nuclear deal, which effectively removed all impediments to Iran becoming a nuclear power and in providing $150 billion for this state sponsor of terror to foment revolution targeted against Israel and American interests:"
Must read! Where do we get such men?-----WW2 German Ace Stumbled Across a Crippled B-17 and Escorted It Home - Now the Veterans are Friends!
WW2 German Ace Stumbled Across a Crippled B-17 and Escorted It Home - Now the Veterans are Friends!:
"Truly touching moments of humanity, ethics and morals are rather rare in warfare.
The Christmas Truce of WWI was an excellent example of such humanity, as were the heroic actions of German Luftwaffe fighter pilot Franz Stigler on December 20th, 1943.
His actions got nine men home for Christmas.
Charlie Brown of the USAAF was a Lt. flying his first mission as an aircraft commander flying a B-17, “Ye Olde Pub” on a bombing run over Bremen. Brown’s bomber occupied the especially dangerous left of the formation, sometimes called the Purple Heart Corner.
Bremen was defended by a large contingent of fighters and well-manned flak guns.
Two B-17s were quickly struck by heavy flak, and many went down.
Brown’s bomber was hit at least once in the left wing.
The crew had to shut down an engine which took them out of the formation.
Soon they were met by about eight enemy fighters.
The B-17 was sometimes referred to as the flying porcupine and Ye Olde Pub sure lived up to the name.
The gunners took out at least one of the fighters and as many as three, all on their own.
The remaining fighters were still able to take the fight to the bomber, however, and bullets tore through Ye Olde Pub.
The tail gunner, Sergeant Hugh “Ecky” Eckenrode, was killed as large sections of the tail were shot apart.
Nine more crewmen were injured, some very badly wounded.
The electrical, hydraulic and oxygen systems were damaged.
Brown was wounded in the shoulder, and the seriously wounded had little reprieve as the morphine syringes were frozen.
Oxygen deprivation and wounds caused Brown to black out momentarily as the bomber spiraled towards the earth.
Brown woke up and said that his first memory was of dodging trees.
The wounds and lack of oxygen made his memory hazy, but from the severe damage and drop in altitude, it is assumed that the German fighters figured that their target was destined to crash.
Brown was able to get some altitude just as German pilot Franz Stigler was refueling.
Stigler saw the bomber and quickly flew up to get above and behind it.
Stigler was a veteran pilot who would eventually serve over 400 combat missions in nearly every front of the war.
Flying the Me 109, Stigler was one bomber kill away from earning the high honor of the Knight’s Cross.
Stigler observed the bomber, waiting for the tail gunner to raise his guns.
Seeing the limp rear guns, he moved closer and saw the massive amount of damage.
Bullet holes were present all over the aircraft. Stigler knew that most of the men had to be badly wounded..."
Read on.
Hanky time!
"Truly touching moments of humanity, ethics and morals are rather rare in warfare.
The Christmas Truce of WWI was an excellent example of such humanity, as were the heroic actions of German Luftwaffe fighter pilot Franz Stigler on December 20th, 1943.
His actions got nine men home for Christmas.
Charlie Brown of the USAAF was a Lt. flying his first mission as an aircraft commander flying a B-17, “Ye Olde Pub” on a bombing run over Bremen. Brown’s bomber occupied the especially dangerous left of the formation, sometimes called the Purple Heart Corner.
Bremen was defended by a large contingent of fighters and well-manned flak guns.
Two B-17s were quickly struck by heavy flak, and many went down.
Brown’s bomber was hit at least once in the left wing.
The crew had to shut down an engine which took them out of the formation.
Soon they were met by about eight enemy fighters.
The B-17 was sometimes referred to as the flying porcupine and Ye Olde Pub sure lived up to the name.
The gunners took out at least one of the fighters and as many as three, all on their own.
The remaining fighters were still able to take the fight to the bomber, however, and bullets tore through Ye Olde Pub.
The tail gunner, Sergeant Hugh “Ecky” Eckenrode, was killed as large sections of the tail were shot apart.
Nine more crewmen were injured, some very badly wounded.
The electrical, hydraulic and oxygen systems were damaged.
Brown was wounded in the shoulder, and the seriously wounded had little reprieve as the morphine syringes were frozen.
Oxygen deprivation and wounds caused Brown to black out momentarily as the bomber spiraled towards the earth.
Brown woke up and said that his first memory was of dodging trees.
The wounds and lack of oxygen made his memory hazy, but from the severe damage and drop in altitude, it is assumed that the German fighters figured that their target was destined to crash.
Brown was able to get some altitude just as German pilot Franz Stigler was refueling.
Stigler saw the bomber and quickly flew up to get above and behind it.
Stigler was a veteran pilot who would eventually serve over 400 combat missions in nearly every front of the war.
Flying the Me 109, Stigler was one bomber kill away from earning the high honor of the Knight’s Cross.
Stigler observed the bomber, waiting for the tail gunner to raise his guns.
Seeing the limp rear guns, he moved closer and saw the massive amount of damage.
Bullet holes were present all over the aircraft. Stigler knew that most of the men had to be badly wounded..."
Read on.
Hanky time!
History for October 25
History for October 25 - On-This-Day.com
Pablo Picasso 1881, Richard Byrd 1888, Leo G. Carroll 1892
Marion Ross 1928 - Actress ("Happy Days"), Bobby Knight 1940 - Basketball coach, Helen Reddy 1942
1415 - In Northern France, England won the Battle of Agincourt over France during the Hundred Years' War. Almost 6000 Frenchmen were killed while fewer than 400 were lost by the English.
1812 - During the War of 1812, the U.S. frigate United States captured the British vessel Macedonian.
1854 - The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War. The British were winning the Battle of Balaclava when Lord James Cardigan received an order to attack the Russians. He took his troops into a valley and suffered 40 percent caualties. Later it was revealed that the order was the result of confusion and was not given intentionally.
1917 - The Bolsheviks (Communists) under Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power in Russia.
1929 - Alber B. Fall, of U.S. President Harding's cabinet, was found guilty of taking a bribe. He was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100,000.
1955 - The microwave oven, for home use, was introduced by The Tappan Company.
1960 - The Accutron watch by the Bulova Watch Company was introduced.
1962 - American author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
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