And the same is true here. I can't identify what the artillery piece above is.
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Commander of the 3d Armored Division, Maj Gen. Maurice Rose was killed in action near Paderborn, Westphalia, where many of many ancestors immigrated from in the 19th Century.
Rose was cut off in a forested area near the city and his part attempted to escape in their Jeeps, which one Jeep managed to do. Stopped by a tank, a Waffen SS tank commander emerged from the hatch with a submachinegun and Rose's hand went for his sidearm. He was machinegunned and left. The remainder of his party hid in the woods overnight, and recovered his body, which contained operational orders that had not been disturbed, that night.
He was the highest ranking U.S. Army officer to be killed in direct action by enemy forces during World War Two.
Rose was Jewish by descent and grew up in a Jewish household in Denver. His father was a businessman who later became a rabbi. Rose himself could speak Yiddish and read Hebrew. He joined the Colorado National Guard before he was legally old enough to do so, hoping for a military career early on, and hoping to serve in the Punitive Expedition, but was discharged six weeks later when his age was discovered. He enlisted again during World War One at age 17 with his parents permission, and went to OCS, which says something about how different things were in regard to educational requirements at the time. He was briefly out of the service in 1919, but returned to the Army as an officer in 1920.
Rose was married for about ten years, from 1920 to 1931, to Venice Hanson of Salt Lake City. although the marriage ended in divorce. Their son served as a career Marine Corps officer and also served in World War Two, as well as the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He later married Virginia Barringer in 1934.
While born and raised Jewish, Maurice identified as an Episcopalian as an adult, which has lead to speculation on whether his conversion was real or political, it being difficult at the time to advance in American society, and the Army more particularly, while being outwardly Jewish. Not that much is known, however, about his personal religious convictions.
He was 45 years of age.
The Battle of Lijevče Field began near Banja Luka between Croatian and Chetnik forces in what would soon be incorporated into communist Yugoslavia.
The Red Army took Danzig. The Danzig Corridor, of course, had been one of the things the Germans claimed they required that lead to World War Two.
Anyone else make a connection to Greenland today.. . . ?
Eric Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey to 16 year old Patricia Molly Clapton and 25 year old Canadian soldier Edward Walter Fryer. He was raised by his grandparents, whom he thought to be his parents until he was nine years old. He thought, at that time, his mother was his older sister. She'd marry another Canadian soldier later on and his grandparents would continue to raise him.
He was performing the blue professionally by age 17.
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Newly ordained St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás celebrated his first Mass in the Chapel of Our Lady of Pilar in the Saragossa Cathedral.
He would found Opus Dei in 1928.
The Victoria Cougars of the WCHL beat the Montreal Canadiens 6-1 to become the last non-NHL team to win the Stanley Cup.
Bringing Up Father On Broadway premiered.
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that New England's trade be limited to Britain and the British West Indies.
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The best posts of the week of March 23, 2025, a week which featured sad stories of the last day of the Republic of Vietnam, and a lot of vehicles.
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The vehicle did see use in the Vietnam War.
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World Airlines made its fourth and last refugee evacuation flight from Da Nang. The flight was designed to take out refugees, but 400 ARVN soldiers forced their way onto the plane. At the same time, the NVA entered the city center.
Of the ARVN in I Corps, 16,000 of the 160,000 in the area managed to escape. And of course, while they could not know it, for the most part all of the people escaping would soon simply be further south in the country when the Communist prevailed.
Da Nang had been the site of the first U.S. Marine Corps landings in Vietnam on March 8, 1965.
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The Battle of the Heiligenbell Pocket ended in a victory for the Red Army.
The 7th Army took Mannheim and Heidelberg.
The last V1 to hit London did so.
US forces landed near Bacolod in the Philippines.
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A good thing is that McDonalds has the Filet-O-Fish sandwich, made from Alaskan pollack, which is really good. They have it all year long, but I never think of it until Lent, which might be because I don't go into McDonalds very much. Apparently this holds true for a lot of other people as 25% of Filet-O-Fish sandwiches are sold during Lent.
Condemn attacks on judiciary, Wyoming lawyers and judges urge delegation: More than 100 members of the state’s legal community, including four retired Supreme Court justices, implored Sens. Barrasso and Lummis and Rep. Hageman to resist “reckless disdain” for the courts.
A disgrace.
Kissinger later asserted that President Ford needed to decide on a plan to evacuate Americans and some Vietnamese allies within a week. Vice President Rockefeller feared that because the mob would be so unruly during the evacuation, that Marines would have to shoot refugees.
The situation in Cambodia was also discussed.
Ford authorized the use of U.S. Navy vessels to assist in the evacuation of South Vietnamese cities.
The New Zealand surgical team was evacuated from Qui Nhơn ending a twelve year mission there.
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Hitler fired Guderian as Chief of the OKH following an argument. His replacement was Hans Krebs.
Guderian, as we've noted before, would survive the war. He was released from being held as a POW in 1948, never prosecuted for war crimes, and died in 1954 at age 65.
Krebs killed himself on May 2, 1945.
Eisenhower telegrammed Stalin with his plans for advancing in Germany. The British, who were not consulted, protested.
The Red Army captured Balga.
The U.S. 80th Infantry Division captured Wiesbaden.
The 3d Corps took Marburg.
The USS Trigger was sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the East China Sea.
The Battle of Slater's Knoll began between Australian and Japanese forces on Bougainville.
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