Arthur Greiser

Arthur Greiser, Gauleiter of Danzig, born January 22, 1897 in Schroda/Posen, honorary SS-Oberführer, Gauleiter Wartheland, winner Iron Cross 1st Class in World War I, member of a post-World War I “Baltic Freikorps,” winner Nazi Golden Party Badge, member of the Reichstag, convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death, executed by hanging (after being paraded through the city in a cage) on July 21, 1946 in Poznan, Poland, while 15,000 Poles watched, once said of Poland: “…God has helped us conquer the Polish nation, which must now be destroyed…in a decade the fields of Poland will be heavy with stacked wheat and rye, raised and harvested by Germans, but not a Pole will remain.”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)

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Grave stone for Master Sergeant John C. Woods

During the hours of darkness, at approximately 10:30 p.m. on July 21, 1950, on Eniwetok Atoll, Master Sergeant John C. Woods was called to fix a faulty electrical line running from a power source in a small shed (known as the tool shack) to a light set at a nearby quarry.  As a result of the damaged electrical line, the lights in the light set had been extinguished.  As the mission of the engineers at the quarry was round-the-clock, power and light needed for quarry operations had to be restored and restored quickly.  What happened next was so confusing that the truth of the issue was never solved until now….(American Hangman: MSgt. John C. Woods: The United States Army’s Notorious Executioner in World War II and Nürnberg)

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On July 21, 1943, the First Battalion, 39th infantry Regiment reaches Castelvetrano, then Campobello di Mazara, Sicily, and later that evening captures 3,456 Italian prisoners of war.  The advance comes with a price when an enemy aircraft strafes Colonel William Ritter’s command car.  Ritter, the commander of the 39th Infantry Regiment, jumps out, but another officer then falls on the colonel breaking Ritter’s leg. Ltc John J. Toffey takes command.  (Dying Hard: Company B, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th US Infantry Division in World War II)