pferguson | July 26, 2017

Moonstone The 700 little ships of Dunkirk included fishing boats, lifeboats, pleasure boats, private yachts and launches berthed along the River Thames and the southern and eastern coasts of England. There were three routes the boats could take, each journey with unique hazards. Route Z (39 nautical miles) the shortest route, of two hours sailing […]

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pferguson | January 5, 2016

Bridge of Spies and my Zweibrücken (Two Bridges) I step into the cold December night and wander towards the theatre. Tonight was to have been a blog about prisoners of war of the 16th Battalion CEF, but as I watch the blog become scrambled across the page I realize tonight is not the time to sort […]

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Tags: 3rd Fighter WIng, Atomic Bomb Drills, Based on True Events, Berlin Wall, Beware of Mr. Baker, Bridge of Spies, Cold War, Film, Four-Power Authorities, France, Francis Gary Powers, Frederic Pryor, Germany, Iron Curtain, James B. Donovan, Mark Rylance, Mission: Impossible Rogue - Nation, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Turner, Nuremberg Trials, Prisoners of War, RCAF, Rudolf Able, Searching for Sugar Man, Shadows, Spandau Prison, SPECTRE, Spies, Spy, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey, Tom Hanks, United Kingdom, USA, USSR, Zweibrucken