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Joseph Beyrle was the third of seven children born to William and Elizabeth Beyrle, whose parents had come to America from Germany in the 1800s. He was six years old when the Great Depression struck; his father, a factory worker, lost his job. The family was evicted from their home and was forced to move in with Joseph's grandmother.
According to an item on this web page, the "Italian mountain pass" story did happen, but it took place in 1866, during the Austro-Prussian War (and it says 80 men left and 81 returned). The web page cites a Liechtensteiner source and names the pass, so I'm guessing that it's correct, but out of caution I'm just leaving the story out of the article.
The first flight of 40 U.S. prisoners of war left Hanoi in a C-141A, which later became known as the "Hanoi Taxi" and is now in a museum. Locations of POW camps in North Vietnam From 12 February to 4 April, there were 54 C-141 missions flying out of Hanoi, bringing the former POWs home. [ 3 ]
Homecoming: When the Soldiers Returned From Vietnam is a book of selected correspondence published in 1989. Its genesis was a controversial newspaper column of 20 July 1987 in which Chicago Tribune syndicated columnist Bob Greene asked whether there was any truth to the folklore that Vietnam veterans had been spat upon when they returned from the war zone.
Call it the Trump 2.0 effect. Roseanne Barr, who was fired by Disney from her titular ABC show in 2018 at the height of its ratings prowess, is plotting a TV comeback. Barr tells Variety that she ...
The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan (Hill & Wang; 2011) 242 pages; emphasis on efforts by the political left; Meacham, Jon. Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush (2015) excerpt
The rise of the 'dirtbag left' Political-pressure-cooker moments often trigger counterculture. The Vietnam War empowered the hippie movement, and 1980s DIY punk rock in the US was a response to ...
Surviving 84 days in the Alaskan wilderness without many supplies or outside help Leon Crane (August 5, 1919 – March 26, 2002), a native of Philadelphia, [ 1 ] was an American Army Air Corps lieutenant who was stationed at Ladd Field [ a ] in Alaska during World War II .