Tag: warfare

• Dawn Of Destruction – History’s First Air Raid.

  

    “Today I have decided to try to throw bombs from the aeroplane. It is the first time that we will try this and if I succeed, I will be really pleased to be the first person to do it.” 2nd Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti, Italian Air Force. November 1, 1911. It is dawn at an…

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  September 12, 2014

  Odds And Ends

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• Josef Jakobs – the Last Execution At The Tower Of London.

  

  The Tower of London, nowadys a popular tourist destination. Once also a prison, defensive fortress, a crime scene (if you believe, as I do, that the ‘Princes in the Tower’ were murdered here) and also the site of a number of execution. Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey (who was the shortest-reigning Queen in British history,…

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  September 7, 2014

  True Crime

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• Paul Jawarski – Pennsylvania’s Phantom Dynamiter.

  

  Meet Paul Poluszynski, alias ‘Paul Jawarski’, known throughout Pennsylvania as ‘The Phantom.’ Before the end of his extremely violent (and, some might say, mercifully brief) criminal career he claimed to have killed twenty-six people including four police officers and a payroll security guard. His gang, the ‘Flatheads’, also committed the first-ever robbery using a landmine.…

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  August 19, 2014

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• The Strange Case Of Leroy Henry

  

  The strange case of Leroy Henry attracts me for two reasons. One is that I like to look at the unusual. Even if posting on a widely-known and common story then I prefer one with a twist. It helps keep things interesting. Leroy Henry’s case was very interesting. Private Henry was one of the hundreds…

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  August 16, 2014

  History, Odds And Ends, Press And Politics, True Crime

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