Weekly History Wrap Up: 10/14/11
October 14, 2011
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Good Friday morning to all. Time for what’s “new” in the world of “old” with the Weekly History Wrap Up.
Former POWs of Oflag 64 will be reuniting this week in Florida, while WW II submarine veterans gathered for a reunion at Wahoo, Nebraska.
Be assured, tokens from the Civil War are all around us.
Check out this coming Tuesday’s edition of the History Detectives on PBS, where they’ll exam a Civil War tintype depicting an African American Confederate soldier. Can’t wait!
A little late in coming, but Korean War vet, Eugene Bradford was finally honored for his battlefield heroics from July 1953.
And lastly… dude … seriously? How much silver is there on the ocean floor? OMEX is at it again, discovering the wreckage of the SS Mantola, sank during World War I by a German sub. Oh yeah, it was carrying 19 tons of silver. And this comes only a month after the find of the similarly silver-laden SS Gairsoppa. Maybe, I’m in the wrong business.
Til Monday, have a historical weekend!