Category: Everything Else

A short story on the Battle of Britain that was originally posted here on the 18 Feb 2001. The Battle of Britain is frequently also regarded as the first major turning point of the war, when the allied forces finally

This was posted up here on the 14 Feb 2001, shortly before the release of Michael Bay’s turkey of a mess Pearl Harbor movie. Another commonly made observation of the Pearl Harbor attack was that most pundits believe it was

Another short entry I wrote, which was originally posted up here on 6 Oct 2000. The source of the story in Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg’s tour-de-force motion picture on the second world war, was in reality based on a

The recent movie by Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima, makes a passing reference to the death of General Yamamoto during the war. Here’s a short but well-known story about him that I originally posted up on the 13 Feb

Here’s the first of the many stories I wrote during the earlier years of keeping this web site. The source for this one is from Citizen Soldiers by the late Stephen Ambrose, and I put it up on the 6

The Chinese has a saying which goes something like this: “Failure is the mother of all success”. Well, I have asked myself recently how many times it takes one to fail in order to taste the sweetness of success. Twice

What once used to be a quiet road is now a heavily used, almost-highway for many motorists travelling in the eastern part of Singapore. For me, it has been almost a daily affair to use this road to drive darling