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Philip Van Horn Weems (March 29, 1889 – June 2, 1979) was a United States Navy officer, inventor of navigational instruments and methods, including the Weems Plotter and the Second Setting Watch, [1] and author of navigational textbooks.
Philip Van Horn Weems Dodds (May 17, 1951 – October 6, 2007), credited as Phil Dodds and Philip Dodds, was an audio engineer who appeared in the 1977 motion picture ...
Tiger Death March memorial at Andersonville National Historic Site. During the Korean War, in the winter of 1951, 200,000 South Korean National Defense Corps soldiers were forcibly marched by their commanders, and 50,000 to 90,000 soldiers starved to death or died of disease during the march or in the training camps. [48]
Disabled Filipino World War II veteran and death march survivor Manuel Abrazado, 80, (L) and his comrade Emilio Aquino, 86, (R) look at the names of their comrades at the Capas National Shrine in ...
The Bataan Death March saw thousands of U.S. and Filipino troops killed as they were forced to march through perilous jungles by Japanese captors.
Smith alleged that Weems tried to run him off state Route 16 several times while they went west into Kitsap County. The State Patrol received reports at about 1:49 p.m. of two vehicles driving ...
The following month, personal tribulations put a temporary halt on the album's production when her former boyfriend Jarvis "Knot" Weems committed suicide. [2] In July 2000, Monica and Weems were together at the graveside of Weems's brother, who had died in an automobile accident at age 25 in 1998, when Weems, without warning, put a gun to his ...
Six from Borneo is a 1947 Australian documentary radio feature about the six survivors of the Sandakan Death Marches. It was made by the ABC in conjunction with the BBC. [2] The six survivors: W/O W. H. Stiepewich; ex-Bombardier Richard Braithwaite; ex-Gunner Owen Campbell; ex-Pte. William Moxham; ex- Private Keith Botterill; ex-Pte. Nelson Short