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Sun 11 Dec, 2005 05:14 pm
I have come across an item in an on-this-day-in-history website which reads:
February 10 1943 Wa'er shot dead by Defiance
This piqued my curiousity and I have been trying to track down just who Wa'er was. I assumed it was connected with a WWII battle - Defiance being a ship perhaps, but the "shot dead by" indicates a more personal incident.
Is there any history buff out there that might know what this is all about?
Well, lezzles, nice to see you back, dear. <smile> I did some research myself and could only ascertain that wa'er was some sort of air craft.
Babs--
I've got an ancestor who took off for the California Gold Rush with the wagon a mule in the middle of planting season.
He returned to his family four years later with malaria and without the wagon and the mule.
@lezzles,
Closest so far that I found to 1943 Defiance was Friday June 11, 1943 Defiance of Nazi's Decrease
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/82011057
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