Men and Women Involved in WWII
Soldiers from WWII
Ivor Rowbery
Ivor Rowbery was a soldier, who was born in Wolverhampton, England, in 1923. Ivor's father had fought in WWI and was captured and spent several years as a POW (Prisoner Of War).
Ivor's family suffered a loss in 1930 when his younger brother drowned in a swimming accident. After leaving school, Ivor went to work as an accountant before joining the Boulton and Paul Aircraft Factory in 1939. In 1941, Ivor was called to join the British Army. Ivor was a member of the South Staffs Airborne Army where he took part in the invasion of Sicily. He survived the dangerous mission and returned to England in October 1943. On September 17, 1944, three divisions of the 1sh Allied Airborne Corps landed in Holland. Also on September 17, 1944, the British 30th Corps advanced from the Meuse-Escaut Canal. Ivor Rowbery was killed on the first day of the operation and is buried in in the cemetery located at Oosterbeek near Arnhem. |
Robert Emmett Johnson
In the Early 1940s, Robert Emmett Johnson Joined the Merchant Marines. In 1948, Johnson served with the Sixth Marines in Tsingtao, China. During the Korean War, Johnson was a USMC Press Attaché on the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt.
After leaving the United States Navy, Johnson worked for President Anastasio Somoza in Guatemala. This was followed by employment with Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. In 1961, Johnson was employed by Colonel Ulius Amoss, under the commercial cover of the International Services of Information with offices in Baltimore. According to a CIA document: "At this time he (Johnson) was already in close touch with the various independent Cuban Exile anti-Communist groups in Miami and elsewhere." It was believed that Johnson was involved in bringing in the weapons for the CIA that was used to assassinate Trujillo on May 30, 1961. |
Women Involved in the War
Ruth Cowan
In 1902, Ruth Cowan was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1923, Ruth graduated from the University of Texas. After graduating, she taught at Main Avenue High School in San Antonio, Texas, where she taught for three years, from 1924 to 1927.
In 1928, Ruth became a reporter for the San Antonio Evening News. One year after that, Ruth joined the United Press in Chicago. The stories she covered were mostly gangster stories and even reported the trial of Al Capone. In 1940, Ruth moved to Washington. Ruth denied the right to attend the press conferences of Franklin D. Roosevelt. She also appealed to Eleanor Roosevelt, who then decided to hold her own press conferences with women reporters. In 1942, Ruth was sent to London to report on the Home Front in WWII. During the D-Day invasion, Ruth reported from hospital ships caring for wounded Allies. Later in WWII, she interviewed multiple military leaders, including: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, and George Patton. |
Shelley Mydans
Shelley Mydans was born in Stanford University, located in the United States, in 1915. After Shelly graduated college, she moved to New York, where she found work as a journalist with the Literary Digest.
In 1936, Shelley joined the staff of Life Magazine. Shelley and her husband were sent to Europe to cover WWII. They first went to England before covering the war in Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Italy, China, and Hong Kong. The couple travelled well over 45,000 miles to cover WWII stories and gather pictures. Shelley and her husband were in the Philippines when Japanese bombers bombed Pearl Harbor. They were captured by the Japanese Army in Manila and were held captive until December of 1943. After the war, Shelley worked for ABC News. |
WWII Photographers
Bill Brandt
In 1904, Bill Brandt was born in London. His family moved to Germany, but Bill attended a sanitarium in Switzerland due to suffering from tuberculosis. In 1929, Bill left the sanitarium. Bill moved to France, where he studied art forms.
Bill took up photography, his first work appearing in the Paris Magazine in 1930. During the Depression, Bill returned to Britain, were many of his photographs appeared in the Daily Chronicle. Bill also published many books showcasing many of his photographs. During WWII, Bill recorded the life during the Blitz, this led him to become the world's leading photojournalist. After the war, Bill lost interest in documentary photography and developed his ideas on expressionism and surrealism. Bills photographs were often strangely lighted and were printed with high contrast. His subjects included nudes, landscapes, and seashores. |
Robert Capa
In 1913, Robert Capa was born in Budapest, Hungary. Robert worked in Germany as a photographer until he moved to France in 1933. Robert covered the Spanish Civil War and the Japanese invasion of China in 1938.
Robert moved to the United States and was then recruited by Collier's Weekly as a photojournalist in 1942. Robert went to Britain and covered the Home Front before moving to North Africa. One year later, Robert joined Life Magazine and then accompanied Allied troops to Sicily in July of 1943. Robert took many dramatic photographs of the D-Day Invasion. Robert 108 photographs in the first couple hours of the invasion of France. |
Site Pages
Simkin, John. "Ivor Rowbery." Spartacus Educational. Spartacus Educational Publishers Ltd, Sept. 1997. Web. 07 May 2015.
Simkin, John. "Robert Emmett Johnson." Spartacus Educational. Spartacus Educational Publishers Ltd, Sept. 1997. Web. 07 May 2015.
Simkin, John. "Ruth Cowan." Spartacus Educational. Spartacus Educational Publishers Ltd, Sept. 1997. Web. 10 May 2015.
Simkin, John. "Shelley Mydans." Spartacus Educational. Spartacus Educational Publishers Ltd, Sept. 1997. Web. 10 May 2015.
Simkin, John. "Bill Brandt." Spartacus Educational. Spartacus Educational Publishers Ltd, Sept. 1997. Web. 10 May 2015.
Simkin, John. "Robert Capa." Spartacus Educational. Spartacus Educational Publishers Ltd, Sept. 1997. Web. 10 May 2015.
Simkin, John. "Robert Emmett Johnson." Spartacus Educational. Spartacus Educational Publishers Ltd, Sept. 1997. Web. 07 May 2015.
Simkin, John. "Ruth Cowan." Spartacus Educational. Spartacus Educational Publishers Ltd, Sept. 1997. Web. 10 May 2015.
Simkin, John. "Shelley Mydans." Spartacus Educational. Spartacus Educational Publishers Ltd, Sept. 1997. Web. 10 May 2015.
Simkin, John. "Bill Brandt." Spartacus Educational. Spartacus Educational Publishers Ltd, Sept. 1997. Web. 10 May 2015.
Simkin, John. "Robert Capa." Spartacus Educational. Spartacus Educational Publishers Ltd, Sept. 1997. Web. 10 May 2015.
3 Scientists
Albert Einstein was born of Jewish parents in Ulm, Germany, in 1879. He was educated at Munich, Aarau and Zurich. Disapproving of German militarism he took Swiss nationality in 1901 While in this post he began publishing original papers on the theoretical aspects of problems in physics.
In 1922 Ernst Heinkel established the Heinkel-Flugzeugwerke company at Warnemunde. After Adolf Hitler came to power, Heinkel's designs formed a vital part of the growing strength in the years leading up to World War II. This included the Heinkel He59, the Heinkel He115 and the Heinkel He111
Karl Wirtz was a German scientist who was involved in scientific research. In 1940 he joined the atomic bomb research team led by Werner Heisenberg. Wirtz and his group worked at Haigerloch and by 1945 had gathered together almost sufficient material to build a nuclear weapon.
sites page
http://spartacus-educational.com/GERwirtz.htm Karl Wirtz
http://spartacus-educational.com/FWWheinkel.htm Ernst Heinkel
http://spartacus-educational.com/USAeinstein.htm Albert Einstein
there were 6 million deaths during the holocaust! the Holocaust was when the Germans decided that the Jews needed to die and tried to eliminate them. The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War.As a result of the Operation Reinhard, only about 300,000 Jews were alive in the General Government by the end of 1942. The rest had perished, either of hunger, illness, forced labour, or by gassing in the extermination camps. they performed experiments on the people in the camps and ghettos to test there chemicals and ways to kill people in short or long term affects.
Nuremburg Trials
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) committed suicide and was never brought to trial. Although the legal justifications for the trials and their procedural innovations were controversial at the time, the Nuremberg trials are now regarded as a milestone toward the establishment of a permanent international court, and an important precedent for dealing with later instances of genocide and other crimes against humanity.
Navajo code talkers
the Navajo language was used in the second world war because only 30 non-Navajo people undersanded it. it was effective because the Japanese had already cracked the Marine corps' code and were losing the fight. Vogel was convinced by Johnson's arguments and it was decided to establish a Navajo code programme at Camp Pendleton at Oceanside, California. The Navajo Code Talkers were distributed among the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine divisions. Sandoval's job was to stay behind the frontline and translate reports from two-man code talker teams elsewhere on the island.
How animals were used in the war
Cats were used to kill rats that were eating the rations of the crew.
Pigeons brought message which arrived in time to save lives of Allied soldiers.
Dogs saved the lives of soldiers by leading them though enemy territory and from dragging them out of dangerous situations and by defending them.
Horses were used as patrol and as transportation for the war also they were used in mounted warfare from the smaller countries.
Propaganda
US join the army any branch you choose and fight for your freedom
Soviet Union we are strong and massive
Germany Hitler is are leader follow him
France together we defeated the German army
Italian we are stronger and better then are rivals
British only we could have won this war
China join us and we will prevail
Japan we are mighty and we will conqueror
Japanese Interment
The relocation of Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II was one of the most flagrant violations of civil liberties in American history. According to the census of 1940, 127,000 persons of Japanese ancestry lived in the United States, the majority on the West Coast.
The relocation of Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II was one of the most flagrant violations of civil liberties in American history. According to the census of 1940, 127,000 persons of Japanese ancestry lived in the United States, the majority on the West Coast.