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The Lucky Ones
The Lucky Ones is a collection of stories gathered from the wartime experiences of a few US airmen who served in the 8th Air Force Bomb Groups in England during WWII. The stories in this collection, narrated by the airmen themselves, recount the harrowing adventures the airmen endured in their most trying missions over Europe. These are stories of encounters with enemy fighters, struggles to control flak-damaged planes, grueling crash landings, and desperate bail-outs from burning planes. Many airmen, fortunate enough to survive these experiences, were captured by the Germans once on the ground. Their treatment at the hands of their captors is painfully re-told here. Miraculously some airmen managed to evade captivity and escape the Germans, sometimes as an entire crew. In the course of the war, more than 30,000 young Americans lost their lives over Europe. As one airman said: “The real heroes...were the many...who died in combat.” These are the stories of other heroes who survived what seemed certain death. These are the stories of The Lucky Ones.
The Young Ones
The Young Ones is a collection of stories from the wartime experiences of some of the American airmen who served in Europe and the Pacific during WW II. The stories are narrated by the airmen or submitted by relatives, and recount missions over enemy territory, encounters with enemy fighters, struggles to control battle damaged planes, crash landings, and bail out from exploding planes, often leaving behind dead and wounded buddies. Many airmen who survived these experiences were captured and spent the rest of the war as POWs. They were often brutally treated by their captors. However, some airmen managed to evade captivity and escaped. Some were on the run for months throughout Europe, some hiding for almost a year until war's end. Thousands of POWs in Germany were on the forced marches in the beginning of 1945, the Death Marches. Their suffering on these marches is painfully retold on some of these pages. These are the stories of some American airmen who served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, most of them only 19 or 20 years of age. These are the stories of The Young Ones.
The Captured Ones
A story about a few American airmen who served in Europe during WWII. The stories are narrated by a few of the airmen and recount missions over enemy territory, encounters with enemy fighters, crash landings, and bail outs from burning planes.
The Darkest Christmas
December 1942 saw the bloodiest Christmas in the history of mankind. From the islands in the Pacific to the China front, from the trenches in Russia to the battlelines in North Africa, in the skies over Europe and in the depths of the Atlantic, men were killing each other in greater numbers than ever before. The Holocaust continued, and innocent civilians were murdered by the thousands throughout the evil Nazi empire, even as the perpetrators celebrated the birth of Christ. At the same time as the slaughter continued unabatedly, throughout the world there were random acts of kindness, born out of an instinctive feeling of the essential brotherhood of man. These gestures also straddled religi...
Landsholdet. Fodboldlandsholdet gennem 100 år
Det danske fodboldlandshold kan efter 100 år på banen stadig samle hele nationen. Steen Ankerdal fortæller landsholdets dramatiske historie, som startede i 1906, hvor det første uofficielle landshold vandt de ekstraordinære olympiske lege i Athen. To år senere spillede landsholdet sin første officielle kamp, og i den olympiske slutrunde nåede Danmark helt til finalen. Herfra ruller historien sig ud med op- og nedture, fantastiske sejre, hurtige slutrundeexits og Europamesterskabet i 1992 som det absolutte højdepunkt. Dramatiske øjeblikke har brændt sig ind i hukommelsen for evigt – fra Henry From, som placerer tyggegummiet på den ene stolpe før straffesparket i OL60-semifinale...
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Flugten fra Bornholm 1944
Beretter om en amerikansk bombeflybesætning, der efter nødlanding på bornholm under 2. verdenskrig kom videre til Sverige ved lokales hjælp
Rising Above and Beyond the Crossbar
The Civil Rights era is the backdrop to this story of a black college soccer team who played their hearts out to overcome racial injustice in 1970s USA. Stocked with some of the best Caribbean and African players of the era, the Howard University Bison went on to win two national championships under the martial discipline of Coach Lincoln Tiger Phillips. The Tiger made history by becoming the first college coach to win an NCAA championship for a Historically Black University, when the Bison stormed to the 1971 and 1974 titles. He is a former professional goalkeeper who did his utmost to repel the sorcery of Brazilian maestro Pel in the early days of professional soccer in the United States, ...
Guinness Fodboldbog 1990
Frits Ahlstrøm har samlet en lang række spændende informationer og historier om fodboldens historie i Danmark såvel som rundt omkring i verden i løbet af det tyvende århundrede. Her kan du blandt andet læse: Rekorder og resultater Trænere og topscorere Pokalvindere og personligheder Landshold og ligahold Vindere og vandbærere Kendsgerninger og kuriositeter Frits Ahlstrøm (f. 1945) var i mange år sportsredaktør på Politiken og Alt om Sport. Senere skiftede han spor og blev informationschef i DBU og sportschef i Brøndby. Frits Ahlstrøm er desuden kendt som medkommentator til VM-fodboldkampe på DR TV og var i mange år tilknyttet UEFA og FIFA.
Fodbold i sjov og alvor
Bill Shankly, den legendariske manager i Liverpool FC, var elsket og indimellem også frygtet for sit vid. Næppe nogen anden personlighed i fodbold har været så slagfærdig. Det meste berømte af mange citater er: "Nogen tror, fodbold drejer sig om liv og død. Jeg er meget skuffet over deres holdning. Jeg kan forsikre dem, at det er langt vigtigere."Det blev sagt med et glimt i øjet, men Bill Shankly var så besat af fodbold, at det ikke kan udelukkes, at han virkeligt mente det. Udover fodbold interesserede han sig kun for sin familie. Han holdt én uges ferie om året - og altid på Norbreck Hotel i Blackpool. Hans elskede hustru Nessie har fortalt, at han også tilbragte lidt tid i h...
