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Here is a prophecy Nostradamus made. People believe this is a prediction about the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy and the conspiracy involved with it.

The ancient work will be accomplished,
And from the roof evil ruin will fall on the great man:
They will accuse an innocent, being dead, of the deed:
The guilty one is hidden in the misty copse.

This predictions says that Kennedy was killed by someone hidden in the bushes (copse), not by Lee Harvey Oswald.

Any thoughts?

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After Easy company arrived back in England, they were fitted with replacements and ammunition, ready to go back into combat at a moments notice. All throughout the rest of summer, they were assigned a few combat jumps into France, but every time they arrived at the airfield, the ground troops had over run their drop zone so the mission was cancelled. This happened on and off several times. Finally in September, the allies devised a plan to drop thousands of troops into Nazi-Occupied Holland.

Easy Company was assigned to hold bridge at the southern end of the country. They were to hold the surrounding area until tank reinforcements arrived. The jump went very smoothly. Unlike D-Day, all the troops landed in their assigned areas and assembled quickly. They were told by Allied Intelligence that the Germans is Holland were old men and young boys who did not want to fight. This turned out to be completely wrong. Crack panzer divisions left in reserve attacked the allies from all sides.

Almost everything went wrong. Easy company’s assigned bridge was destroyed halting the allied advance for several hours. With a week, the entire operation failed and the quick drive into Germany would not happen. Easy took up defensive positions and tried their best to keep a level head in spite of constant German attacks and dwindling ammo. They were soon pulled off the line and sent back to the Allied lines to refitting.

Within a few months, Hitler launched an all-out assault on Western Europe by throwing every bit of equipment he had in a last ditch effort to halt the allied advance. In the freezing cold of winter, Easy Company alone with the rest of the 101st Airborne division was ordered to hold the town of Bastogne. This town was of vital importance because of its road network. If the Germans took this town, there would be nothing to stop them from launching an attack in every direction.

The battle-hardened troops dug foxholes in the snow and created a defensive perimeter around the town. Soon they were surrounded and running low on supplies. For more than month, they had endure attacks while fighting in the freezing cold with barely any ammunition. General Patton was able to fight his way through the German advance and save the besieged paratroopers. To this day, members of the 101st Airborne felt they could have held out without Patton’s help.

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World War Two is universally considered to be the worst war in human history. Millions of civilians and military personnel were lost to this terrible conflict. Here is a list of the two worst battles of the war and the casualties that were inflicted during the battles.

During the Pacific war against the Japanese, the American Marines were ordered to take the island of Iwo Jima back. The island was made of sulfuric ash and has become known as one of the costliest battles of the entire war for the Americans.

Battle of Iwo Jima – 6,821 Americans, 21,703 Japanese

The Germans invaded Russia in 1941, in less than a year, it seemed that the Russians were on the brink of total annihilation. However, the tide was about to turn in their favor. The German advance was halted at the Volga river at the city of Stalingrad. This city would be the place where the fate of Eastern Europe would be decided. It is widely considered by historians to be the worst battle in the history of the world.

Battle of Stalingrad – 1,129,619 Russians, 841,000 Germans

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During the Second World War, the United States Army issued that an elite unit of paratroopers be assembled that would be able to fight in a light and swiftly manner. Their objective would be to drop behind enemy lines and cause turmoil to enemy forces and pave the way for an infantry invasion. In 1942, members of the newly formed 101st Airborne division gathered at Camp Toccoa, Georgia. The orders of the officers in charge were to take a group of young city and farm boys and train them into hard-fighting soldiers worthy of the name paratrooper. One such group was Easy Company of the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne. Most of the men with the exception of the officers, had little schooling and barely any training with a rifle.

For two years, the men were instructed in the ways of hand-to-hand fighting and squad formations. They were shown how to fight quickly and with to use little supplies as possible. The Army planned to use these troops for the invasion of France. These soldiers along with other divisions of paratroopers would be dropped behind the German lines on the Normandy coast and pave the way for the biggest invasion in military history. So the boys of Easy Company were shipped off to England. There they were trained on how to fight against the well-entrenched German soldiers. Britain’s country-side was very much like that of France’s. This gave Easy an advantage of training.

The invasion was originally scheduled for June 5 of 1944. Yet, weather problems forced the invasion to be postponed. The next day, the invasion was officially set. The young paratroopers along with thousands of other service men and women boarded planes and boats that would bring them across the English Channel to the coast of France. As the paratroopers flew over the English Channel, they observed the biggest armada ever assembled for an invasion. Yet, soon they were lost in a cloud bank. High above the skies of France, the planes drifted this way and that and were scattered. This cloud bank proved deadly for the paratroopers.

By the time, the fog was gone, German artillery and machine-guns were firing everything at the planes. Hundreds of troops were killed before they even had the chance to jump. Those that managed to get out of the planes in time were scattered all over the country-side. They were off from their assigned objectives. But this confusion proved helpful for the Americans. The Germans were in a total state of shock. They did not know if this was the real invasion or simply a diversion from another attack. Easy Company managed to get enough men together and under the command of Lt. Richard Winters, they attacked a group of German-controlled artillery guns that were firing on men landing on the beaches.

Within less than an hour, the guns were destroyed and the members of Easy Company were soon assembled in the next few days. The Company moved out and took the town of Carentan which was guarding the linkage point between two of the Allied beachheads. After the capture of the town, the soldiers headed south to hold off a counter-attack. Here they dug in and faced the fiercest sighting they had ever witnessed. German tanks came out of clearing and began firing at them. It took a long while, before Allied tanks came up and forced the Germans into a retreat.

This show of courage set of a chain of heroic acts that would make Easy Company one of the most respected and honored units in the history of the paratroopers.

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