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immy Stewart - The Soldier's Biography And The Story Of His Record Breaker P-51 "Thunderbird"

James "Jimmy" Stewart won the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Philadelphia Story also starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in 1940. Stewart was riding high and MGM was expecting big things from him. What he chose to do next was bigger than anyone could have imagined. Like his ancestors before him, Stewart enlisted in the United States Army to the dismay of MGM.

The Stewart family tradition of serving in the military goes back to Jimmy’s third great-grandfather, Fergus Moorhead, who served in the Revolutionary War. Jimmy’s maternal grandfather was a general for the Union in the Civil War. His father Alex, served in both the Spanish-American War and World War I. Jimmy Stewart entered the Army as a private and at the end of WWII was a colonel in the Army Air Corps, fully decorated as the result of the 20 combat missions he flew over Germany as leader of a squadron of B-24s. Among the medals, he was awarded were two Distinguished Flying Crosses and the Croix de Guerre.
Stewart continued his military career after WWII by serving in the Air Force Reserves and rose to the rank of Brigadier General. President Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom, which is the highest award that can be awarded to a civilian in the United States.

Following the war, Jimmy got right back into the business of making movies. His first post-war performance in the movie It’s A Wonderful Life earned him an Academy Award nomination. Initially, this film was a box office bust, it has become the most famous Christmas holiday film in Hollywood history. It was also Stewart’s and Frank Capra’s favorite films.

Hollywood star (and US Air Force Reserve Colonel) James Stewart, posing with the winning P-51 Mustang called 'Thunderbird' at the 1949 Bendix Air Race. Stewart was the aircraft's co-owner at the time. The transcontinental point-to-point race was held from 1931 until 1962.
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A ten-year-old boy paints a picture of a P-51 Mustang on his bedroom wall and dreams that he is in the cockpit, swooping through a cathedral of clouds at 400mph. Everyone intrigued with warbirds likely shared this same fantasy at some point during childhood, but for most, flying a Mustang will always elude us. But this story concerns more than wistful aspirations, it is about how that same 10-year-old boy made his dream a reality. Looking up at his wall, a young Warren Pietsch vowed that someday he would own and fly a P-51… but he couldn’t do it alone.

Warren’s father, Al Pietsch, owned Pietsch Flying Service in Minot, North Dakota, and Warren was fortunate to grow up in the family aviation business. In the 1990s Warren took ownership of the company and renamed it Pietsch Aircraft Restoration & Repair, Inc. which would eventually become Minot Aero Center. Warren’s father, his mother Eleanor, and brothers Gary and Kent were all pilots and supported W

The harrowing tale of the Siege of Leningrad, one of the longest and deadliest sieges in human history. Explore the strategic decisions, unyielding resistance, and the unimaginable human cost of this brutal conflict.

This award-winning factual series draws on a unique collection of one hundred interviews with World War One veterans in which the soldiers and their loved ones relive all the heroism and heartbreak of the years from 1914 to 1918. Most of these men had never been interviewed before or since. All the voices are now silent.

In the summer of 1916 there were high hopes of a big push, a breakthrough that would end the war. But the Battle of the Somme ended in stalemate and tragedy. By November 1916 150,000 troops had lost their lives on the Western Front.

On a snow-shrouded winter morning in February 1944, 18 DeHavilland Mosquito’s raced wingtip to wingtip at wave-top height across the English channel towards Amiens Prison in occupied France. In company for this mission was a 19th aircraft equipped with cameras to record the rapier-like thrust to breach the walls of Amiens Prison and free resistance fighters facing death at the hands of Nazi firing squads. The raid that followed, known today as Operation Jericho, was one of the most remarkable aerial actions of the entire Second World War. This is that story.

On a snow-shrouded winter morning in February 1944, 18 DeHavilland Mosquito’s raced wingtip to wingtip at wave-top height across the English channel towards Amiens Prison in occupied France. In company for this mission was a 19th aircraft equipped with cameras to record the rapier-like thrust to breach the walls of Amiens Prison and free resistance fighters facing death at the hands of nazi firing squads. The raid that followed, known today as Operation Jericho, was one of the most remarkable aerial actions of the entire Second World War. This is that story.

On the morning of 1st July 1916 120,000 men left their trenches in a concerted assault against heavily defended German positions on the Somme Battlefields in France.

Despite intense artillery bombardments and thorough preparation, the day was largely a disaster, with close to 60,000 men becoming casualties. This video will explore just one battalion that day, the famous 1st Lancashire Fusiliers who assaulted the fortified village of Beaumont Hamel.

Written Sources:
G. Ashurst, A Lancashire Fusilier at War
G. Malins, How I Filmed The War
M. Middlebrook, the First Day on the Somme
War Diaries of the Great War (CD-ROM Version)
M. Magniac, 29th Divisional Reports

Video/Audio Sources:
G. Malins, The Battle of the Somme (1916), NARA
G. Ashurst, Interview, IWMSA
R. Holmes, War Walks
A. Robertshaw, The Attack on Beaumont Hamel

The Truth Behind Bravo Two Zero. A couple of years before the 2003 Iraq Invasion, Michael Asher (Ex-Para/23 SAS) went to Iraq to try and uncover the truth behind the infamous Bravo Two Zero mission of the Gulf War. This is how it really played out and it turned out that "Andy McNab" had been lying through his teeth.

SADF Huey Comes In hard With Guys falling. You can see some of the troops being chucked out or trying to fast rope. Some were injured.

This one is quite interesting due to the ranks on the graves.

Feel free to critique it as it's a work in progress.

This is a long video. 100 years ago Malins and McDowell exposed their film to the light capturing a moment in time.
It's very difficult to understand and watch the original film as they were very limited by technology and the danger. Malins risked his life on several occasions making this film, being right on the front line with a huge box camera sticking out above the trench. After watching the film many times, over many years, I wanted to find these locations and stand in their foot prints and re film.
Some locations were easy to find, some took much research and some I haven't yet been able to locate, but all the ones in this documentary are within yards to feet of where they filmed originally, none are guesses or just possibilities. I hope you enjoy watching and it helps you to understand please leave comments this is worth more to me than earning money I ask for nothing but love remarks
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T G Boyd KOSB Full name Thomas Gosnell Boyd.
KIA at Theydon Bois, near Epping along with 29 other soldiers from A Company 6th Battalion the KOSB 18th Nov 1940. Tom was only 23 years old.
TRAGEDY AT THEYDON BOIS
On Monday 18th November 1940 sixty men of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers were billeted at Yates Retreat, a huge pre-war tea room and playground in Coppice Row, Theydon Bois. A sentry on duty outside saw an object descending by parachute. He had heard an aircraft circling earlier, and assumed that it must be an airman who had been forced to bale out. The object was in fact a mine, one of two dropped. One landed in Piercing Hill, but the other brushed the roof of the Retreat before hitting the helter-skelter and exploding. The Retreat was completely blown apart, and twenty-six soldiers were killed. Over the next few days two more died of their wounds. All the deaths were recorded at Epping Registry Office.
There is a memorial to those killed in St Mary’s Church Theydon Bois.

This is not the normal kind of content that I publish but this has to get out there.
Welcome to the Stasi that is Police Scotland. This is what they did to a peaceful family enjoying their time at home. This happened close to Aberdeen in the North East of the country.
Please feel free to copy this video and share it as your own.
As a Veteran, i fell that my country has been taken over.

The band Scheme from Glasgow Scotland wrote and performed this in the 80's-90's. How apt is this now?

This song was written back in 2012, Paulo was shut down a few years later. I wonder why.

⁣Francis Kelly Medal Of Honor lay in an unmarked grave in Sandymount Cemetery in the east end of Glasgow, Scotland where he was interred in 1938. Due to a lot of work by two UK Veterans his resting place is now marked with a formal Medal of Honor headstone supplied by the VA in the USA.
I have posted a video about how this Scotsman ended up in the US Navy and within a few weeks he had become a POW and was awarded the Congressional Medal Of Honor for his gallantry.

This is the true story behind Francis Kelly MOH. Francis was a rogue and as such he was perfely fitted to go to war. After only six weeks of service in the USN, he would be awarded the MOH. This is his story

I was visiting friends in Turriff which is about forty five minutes drive North of Aberdeen in Scotland and I went on one of my usual wanders to find some war graves. I found a few unusual ones!

This is the story of what happened to Thomas and his company of 60 who were stationed at Theydon Bois in Essex.

T G Boyd KOSB Full name Thomas Gosnell Boyd.
KIA at Theydon Bois, near Epping along with 29 other soldiers from A Company 6th Battalion the KOSB 18th Nov 1940. Tom was only 23 years old.
TRAGEDY AT THEYDON BOIS
On Monday 18th November 1940 sixty men of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers were billeted at Yates Retreat, a huge pre-war tea room and playground in Coppice Row, Theydon Bois. A sentry on duty outside saw an object descending by parachute. He had heard an aircraft circling earlier, and assumed that it must be an airman who had been forced to bale out. The object was in fact a mine, one of two dropped. One landed in Piercing Hill, but the other brushed the roof of the Retreat before hitting the helter-skelter and exploding. The Retreat was completely blown apart, and twenty-six soldiers were killed. Over the next few days two more died of their wounds. All the deaths were recorded at Epping Registry Office.

Derek Denholm, Scots Guards, KIA In The Falklands Conflict 1982.

The 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards lost eight dead and 43 wounded during the Battle for Mount Tumbledown and in consequence of gallantry shown that day its men were rewarded with one Distinguished Service Order, two Military Crosses (including one to Major Kiszely), two Distinguished Conduct Medals (including one posthumous) and two Military Medals.
Battle for Tumbledown Mountain - The diversionary attack along the Stanley track went in as planned by a small assault group led by the light tanks. Reaching the enemy positions, one of the Guards and a Royal Engineer were killed in a fire-fight that lasted for two hours, and more were wounded withdrawing through a minefield, but the diversion did its job.
By now, in phase one, G Coy had crossed the start line with 7 Platoon and Coy HQ occupying the first half of their objective and 8 and 9 Platoons the second half. Securing the western end by 10.30 pm, the positions were used to support LF Coy who came through to face heavy fire from snipers and GPMG's.
In this second phase, LF Coy's 13 Platoon fought for the high crags on the left and 15 Platoon lower down on the right, while 14 Platoon followed in reserve with Coy HQ. As they pushed forward under increasing mortar and artillery bombardment, two men were killed and a third mortally wounded by snipers. Anti-armour weapons were only partially successful against the Argentine bunkers, but 13 Platoon made some progress with grenades. However, only after three hours, at 2.30 am, could artillery fire be brought down on the enemy positions in front of the stalled 15 Platoon, who with Coy HQ were now able to attack forward and up, overcoming the defences in often hand-to-hand fighting. Eventually, and after a seven hour struggle, just a few men of LF Coy reached the summit.
Now in phase three, RF Coy was able to come up, although the battle was far from over. With 3 Platoon giving covering fire, Number 1 and Lt..

Francis Kelly MOH lay in an unmarked grave in Sandymount Cemetery in the east end of Glasgow since 1938. Today that was put right, his grave is now marked with a formal Medal of Honor headstone supplied by the VA in the USA.

New intro for the channel.

This is the true story behind Francis Kelly MOH.
Francis was a rogue and as such he was perfely fitted to go to war.
After only six weeks of service in the USN, he would be awarded the MOH. Thisd is his story.

This is not the best video thaI have ever made, it is however a real one of When 200+Bikers came together to support Combat Stress in the UK. We have no VA here unlike the US Veterans who have massive medical support, they have hospitals that are dedicated to Vets.
In the UK we have charities that provide support for vets.
I love my friends in the USA but, this is how we have to use charity fund treatment.

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This channel covers War Graves and attempts to tell the stories of those who have served and are no longer with us.