The proximity of the United States to moral culpability for ignition of World War III courtesy of Israel and the advocates of World Government in 2026 leads Mark Dankof to a reflection upon The Empire’s past wars, the Mythology enshrouding these wars, continued research into the price paid by Southwest Iowa’s small towns in the earliest days of World War II, and the fact that a World War III pitting the United States, Israel, and the dying Western European states against China-Russia-and Iran will guarantee a disaster of Apocalyptic proportions.

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 Mark Dankof

July 10, 2026

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I have subconsciously operated with a pervasive existential paradox for most of my life. This paradox involves the Two Spheres of my existence, the Theological/Biblical and the Political/Historical. The Spheres often intersect. 

 

In both spheres, the challenge for me has been to encounter the alleged Mythologies that govern the Two Spheres and to engage in Demythologization utilizing research and critical examination.

 

The paradox is this:  I have not struggled in any meaningful way with the Demythologization of the Biblical narrative.  The Existential Neo-Orthodoxy and Historical Criticism of Rudolf Bultmann and his disciples has not been a significant component in my own theological journey, although I have read Bultmann extensively in past years.  His tri-furcation of Jesus Christ into the Christs of History, Scripture, and Faith and the alleged mist of mythology and mystery that enshrouds these respective Christs is a notion I largely have rejected.  I’d be in the camp of someone like Dr. F. F. Bruce, who believed that the written Word of God reflects a single Christ of History, Scripture, and Faith, where the study of the oldest textual manuscripts with the original languages and the use of textual criticism brings one incredibly close to absolute certainty as to what the original autographs contained.

A good synopsis of Bultmann and Bruce for the theologically uninitiated ensues:

Rudolf Bultmann was a German Lutheran theologian famous for wedding Christian theology with existentialist philosophy, primarily that of his colleague Martin Heidegger. Operating on the fringes of Neo-Orthodoxy, Bultmann argued that the supernatural “mythology” of the Bible must be removed (demythologized) to reveal its existential message of authentic, God-given freedom for modern believers.

The Theological Framework

While heavily associated with the early Neo-Orthodoxy (or dialectical theology) of Karl Barth and Emil Brunner in the 1920s, Bultmann took a distinctively existentialist approach.

• Demythologizing: Bultmann viewed the biblical worldview (miracle stories, a three-tiered universe, the bodily ascension of Christ) as primitive mythology. He argued that to preach the Gospel to a scientifically minded modern world, this supernatural shell must be discarded.
• Existential Interpretation: Bultmann used Heidegger’s existential analysis to reinterpret biblical concepts. For instance, concepts like “sin” and “salvation” were reframed as an individual’s struggle with inauthentic existence (living for the world) and the call to authentic existence (living in faithful trust in God’s grace).
• The Kerygma: Bultmann cared less about establishing historical facts (the “Jesus of history”). Instead, he focused entirely on the kerygma (the preached word). The cross and resurrection were understood not as past historical events to be proven, but as present, existential encounters where God confronts the individual, demanding a decision of faith here and now.

  The Neo-Orthodox Tension

  Bultmann’s relationship with Neo-Orthodoxy is complex and often contested.

  • • Shared Ground: Like the Neo-Orthodox, Bultmann fiercely rejected liberal Protestantism’s attempts to reduce Christianity to mere human morality or optimistic human progress. He emphasized the radical transcendence of God, human sinfulness, and the necessity of grace.
    • The Break: Karl Barth and other Neo-Orthodox thinkers eventually broke with Bultmann. They criticized Bultmann for making theology overly dependent on secular philosophy (Heidegger) and for “demythologizing” so heavily that the actual, historical, and bodily reality of Christ’s incarnation and resurrection was stripped away.

   

   

 

Rudolf Bultmann and the Demythologizing of Jesus Christ and the New Testament witness: The Historical Critical Method, Existential Neo-Orthodoxy, and the Christs of History, Scripture, and Faith comprising 3 Christs enshrouded in the Mist of Mythology and Mystery.

AI is similarly useful in providing a synopsis of the life and work of Dr. F. F. Bruce, although it must be emphasized that there is no substitute for reading the books in question for the serious researcher or theological student.

Frederick Fyvie Bruce (1910–1990) was a world-renowned Scottish biblical scholar widely hailed as the “Dean of Evangelical Scholarship”. Over a prolific career spanning several decades, he played a pivotal role in bridging the gap between rigorous academic critique and traditional Christian faith. He championed the idea that believers should fully embrace modern scientific and historical methods of Bible study without fearing the outcomes.

Life and Academic Career

• • Roots: Born in Elgin, Scotland, he was raised within the Plymouth Brethren Christian community, a group he remained actively dedicated to his entire life.
  • Education: He was classically trained in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew at the University of Aberdeen, Cambridge, and the University of Vienna. Interestingly, he never held a formal theology degree or earned a PhD, though he went on to supervise scores of doctoral students.
  • Professorship: He taught at Edinburgh, Leeds, and Sheffield before spending nearly 20 years as the prestigious Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester (1959–1978).

Core Legacy & Perspectives

• Historical Reliability: Bruce spent much of his career defending the historical authenticity of the New Testament texts.
• “Unhyphenated Evangelical”: When asked if he leaned conservative or liberal, he famously asserted there is only one gospel, identifying simply as an “unhyphenated evangelical”.
• Essential Writings

Bruce published roughly 50 books and thousands of academic articles. Several of his landmark texts remain actively in print:

• • The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? (1943) – His highly celebrated breakthrough defense of textual validity. You can find various print and digital versions via online retailers or check out the F.F. Bruce Biblical Collections at Verbum.
  • The Canon of Scripture – An award-winning historical analysis tracing how the early church officially compiled the books of the Bible. Budget-friendly paperbacks are available at Target and Westminster Bookstore.
  • Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free – Widely considered by historians to be one of the most readable, comprehensive biographies of the Apostle Paul ever written.

 

 

 

Which brings me to the Political/ Historical Realm and the Demythologization of the History of the American Empire, especially its wars. The Kennedy Assassination began my own Odyssey in the endeavor to separate historical fact from mythos. That endeavor accelerated in intensity during the Vietnam War against the backdrop of my Father’s USAF career, with the added ingredients of the RFK and MLK murders, the shooting of Governor George Wallace of Alabama, and the Watergate fiasco. During my junior year of high school in Hawaii, I was bitten by the bug of revisionist history in revisiting the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Decades later, my Odyssey continued with the 9-11 episode in New York, a personal examination of the American War Between the States, and the disturbing story of Operation Ajax in Iran courtesy of the George Washington University National Security Archives.

 

Mark Dankof photo of Elm Street in Dallas and the X which marks the spot of Frame 313 of the Zapruder Film, from the vantage point of the Grassy Knoll Assassin. September 2010.

Two especially disturbing aspects of this journey stand out: The American Educational System is an especially effective and dangerous instrument in perpetuating the Mythologies of the Deep State, both in what is taught in the context of the complete control of narrative, as well in what is deliberately omitted.

 

 

 

602 Julian Avenue on Hickam AFB on the Pearl Harbor Channel Entrance was Mark Dankof’s abode 1971-2. The Water Tower was a landmark for Japanese aerial attack planning on Hickam and on Battleship Row moored around Ford Island in Pearl Harbor.

 

Mark Dankof at Iolani School in Honolulu 1971-2.

The second aspect in June of 2026 is even more disturbing than the first: In conjunction with its partnership with the Zionist State of Israel, the American Deep State no longer attempts to disguise its criminal character with the elaborate use of Mythos and Mythology. The wedded doctrines of American and Israeli Exceptionalism provide its adherents absolute cover for anything perpetrated, no matter how heinous or duplicitous. Exceptionalism is the ideological exemption from the constraints of law, morality, and history that govern everyone else except the United States of America and the Zionist State of Israel. Exceptionalism subsequently evolves into Deification. When Donald Trump and Bibi Netanyahu assume the mantels of the Messianic, Deification evolves into the Satanic.

 

 

 

One thing is sure:  The American Educational System,  the Deep State, and Corporate Zio-News Media in the United States are having unprecedented tribulation in spinning the narrative of the “truth” of who is really winning the Zio-American War with Iran. The fact is that a brilliantly conceived asymmetrical warfare strategy planned over decades by Iran is defeating the party with a military budget 37 times larger than its own which also possesses nuclear weaponry to boot.  There is a second impossibility for the American Educational System, the Deep State, and Corporate Zio-News Media in the spinning the narrative in the way it desires to do so:  No one with a brain in his or her head believes that the United States and Israel are engaged in anything less than a blatant war of aggression against Iran for the doctrine of Greater Israel, natural resource theft, and the monolithic control of shipping lanes and pipelines.

 

Add Putin’s Russia to Iran and the Zio-American West is already cooked well-done. Add China and place your bets on China-Russia-Iran at Miriam Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Casino.

Trump, Netanyahu, Hegseth, Graham and Company left out the major component in their multitude of miscalculations leading to American and Israeli disaster: Karbala.

 

For the denizens of Empire, the intersection of a crisis of existential faith with unmistakable geopolitical descent is the culmination of historical process and the avalanche of evidence generated by it.

June 19th, 2026 and the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) by the United States and Iran in Geneva is the political and historical turning point which advances the speed of the end of the American Century which became palpable with the events in New York on September 11th, 2001 and the Perpetual Wars which followed. The advancing death of the Zionist State of Israel is a corollary. The analysis of Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, Alastair Crooke, Philip Giraldi, and Ron Unz is but a sampling of the avalanche of information and analysis that even Brad Parscale cannot overcome.

 

Perhaps the most telling symbolism of June 19th is that the President of the United States has dispatched his Vice-President to represent America in a signing ceremony not to be held on the deck of the USS Missouri. The Orange Man wants no Photo Ops for himself which underscore that Iran is the winner of this conflict by anyone’s reasonable definition: There was no “regime change”; the Iranian people rallied around their government; no number of decapitation strikes and assassinations could diminish Iranian resolve; Iran’s asymmetrical strategy was brilliantly conceived over decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the end of the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988; and the Minab schoolgirl murders on February 28th at the outset of Round 2 of the American-Israeli war of aggression via sneak attack, which provided the world the imagery of right and wrong in this conflict matching or superseding what Lt. William Calley achieved at My Lai in destroying American mythology and credibility in Vietnam.

 

I will venture a prediction: Israel and its Zionist agents in the American government and national security establishment will not go down without a fight: I smell a coming False Flag Incident likely sometime in the 60 days after the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is signed on June 19th. It will likely happen in the United States. It will be falsely pinned on Iran. As Rabbi Dov Zakheim put it to the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) before September 11th, 2001, “another Pearl Harbor” was needed to galvanize the American public into supporting PNAC’s plan for Middle Eastern wars on behalf of Greater Israel and World Government.

 

 

Netanyahu, Mike Huckabee, Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, and the Orange Man need a “Third Pearl Harbor” now more than ever. Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland still lurk in the shadows. The MEK-MKO would certainly be available to the CIA and Mossad as a contractor. 

 

 

South Vietnamese women and children in Mỹ Lai before being killed in the massacre, 16 March 1968. According to court testimony, they were killed seconds after the photo was taken. The woman on the right is adjusting her blouse buttons following a sexual assault that happened before the massacre.  (Photo by Ronald L. Haeberle/Public Domain)

And perhaps the most lethal of the Mythologies attached to Wars of the American Empire is the oft repeated mantra that World War II is “The Good War.”

 

 

 

I grew up with this notion as the son of an honorable American Army Air Corps and Air Force officer from Southwest Iowa.

 

As a kid, my concept of what an American should be was shaped by The Lone Ranger, Marshal Matt Dillon, and Steve McGarrett. When it came to World War II, there was but one symbol of America and its righteous cause in that conflict: Vic Morrow as Sergeant Saunders in Combat!

 

One thing stands out as I reflect on this: My perceptions were entirely based on television and the good men and women I knew as a youngster who served honorably and heroically in that conflict. The only written history of World War II I encountered was in Lutheran parochial school in Hawaii in the 6th grade via a book I selected from the Student Book Club. It was in school year 1966-67. The paperback wasn’t a complete wash in its contents, but the views of the conflict were entirely pro-Empire and pro-FDR. Dresden wasn’t even mentioned. The Establishment Version of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was maintained, a Version later debunked by my Dad’s old pal General Curtis E. LeMay as “complete bullshit.”

 

Meanwhile, the Vietnam War was underway as I was reading the Establishment version of the events of 1941-45 on my own time as an 11 year old kid on Oahu. My Army classmates had fathers LBJ shipped to Vietnam when the entire 25th Infantry Division left Wahiawa’s Schofield Barracks for the massive and ill-fated ground buildup in the South. And on Friday nights on ABC television at my house on Sperry Loop at Wheeler AFB next to Schofield Barracks, I faithfully tuned in Combat! to watch Sergeant Saunders and the Squad prevail over the evil Germans, otherwise depicted on television as complete morons on CBS with Bob Crane’s Hogans Heroes.

 

It was later in the 1960s that my reading on my own time in a public library led me to Mark Lane’s Rush to Judgment and Josiah Thompson’s Six Seconds in Dallas on the Kennedy Assassination. No school I attended public or private delved into these disturbing narratives which countered the Warren Commission Report of 1964. My interest in the Pearl Harbor attack peaked at Iolani School in Honolulu in school year 1971-72 where the late Navy Captain R.C. Sleight of World War II vintage exposed me to the responsible historical narratives which questioned what FDR was really doing secretly from October of 1940 onward subsequent to his receipt of the Arthur McCollum Memorandum from the head of the Far Eastern Desk at the Office of Naval Intelligence.

My conclusion from these personal studies of the events in Dealey Plaza in Dallas in November of 1963 and the Pearl Harbor attack of December of 1941 was simply this: If the American government was lying about these pivotal events and engaging in a massive coverup of the truth, what else were and are they lying about?

 

Hence, I adopted as my educational philosophy the immortal words of Francis Bacon: “Read not to believe and take for granted, nor to contradict and confute, but to weigh and consider.”

 

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) and his prescient advice on reading

My own journey to a far more complex understanding of “The Good War” was facilitated by reading the best sources on the subject scrupulously avoided by the American Educational Establishment. My initial work and reading on Pearl Harbor expanded with a great boost by historian Mark Weber’s reading list at IHR:

 

Suggested Reading: A Study Guide

By Mark Weber

February 2021. Revised Feb. 2022

In an age when vast amounts of information from a wide range of sources are instantly available online, it can be difficult to sort out what’s reliable, useful, and trustworthy. In response to many inquiries over the years, here are recommended books on some important historical topics. This listing is neither exhaustive nor final. Additional subject categories and titles are planned, and descriptions may be revised or updated.

The Second World War

Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II, by Sean McMeekin. In this 825-page work of scholarly synthesis, packed with eye-opening facts, keen observations and shrewd insights, an American historian dismantles the widely accepted “official” view of the great global conflict that has so profoundly shaped the modern age, and how Americans think of themselves and their country’s role in the world.
The author dismantles the simplistic view, relentlessly promoted by Hollywood and accepted by millions of Americans, of World War II as a righteous “good war” in which the soldiers of “freedom” heroically vanquished the forces of evil. He explains in this iconoclastic and overdue reassessment that it was Stalin, not Hitler, who was the central animating figure of World War II. Drawing on wide-ranging research in Russian, European and US archives, McMeekin shows that it was the dictator in Moscow, not Hitler, who envisioned and prepared for a titanic global conflict, one in which the Soviet regime and Communism would emerge as the great victor.
McMeekin details the belligerent character of the Soviet regime, and especially Stalin’s aggressive policies of 1939-1941 and his ambitious plans for the future – all of which made a clash with Germany and her European allies inevitable. Stalin had already struck against six countries, and had built an enormous air, land and naval force for further aggression, when German and German-allied forces struck against the USSR in June 1941. Hitler’s decision to strike against the Red empire, the author shows, was made only after the mortal threat to Europe and Germany posed by the immense Soviet military buildup and Stalin’s hostile intentions, were manifestly clear.
McMeekin tracks the astonishing scale of US economic and military aid to the Soviet Union during the conflict. So important was this aid, he suggests, that it may have been crucial in saving the Stalin regime from destruction, and in any case enabled the Red Army to conquer most of Eurasia, from Berlin to Beijing. The US government’s indulgently pro-Soviet outlook and policies, he explains, made a mockery of American pretentions of concern for justice and international law, or for victims of oppression and tyranny.
McMeekin also shows how US President Roosevelt’s delusional view of the Soviets drove policies that brought oppression and misery to many millions. The breathtakingly misguided wartime views and policies of Roosevelt and other high-ranking US officials, he explains, were based on ignorance or delusional naiveté about the Soviet regime, and driven by an utterly unrealistic vision of the postwar world.
McMeekin raises troubling questions about Allied aims in World War II, and the ultimate cost and merit of America’s role in the conflict. In effect, he suggests, Americans in World War II killed, died and sacrificed – in least in large measure – “to make much of Europe and Asia safe for Communism.” “Still more uncomfortable questions,” he writes, “surround matters such as Britain’s misleading promises to Poland in 1939, which encouraged Polish leaders to resist Hitler on the largely mistaken understanding that Britain and France would render them active armed assistance against Germany; the Allies’ rejection of German peace feelers in October 1939, after the fall of Poland; [and] Churchill’s refusal to parley in June-July 1940, after the fall of Norway, France and the Low Countries …”

Churchill, Hitler and ‘The Unnecessary War’: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, by Patrick J. Buchanan. A readable and persuasive debunking of the generally accepted story of the origins, trajectory, and consequences of the Second World War, by one of America’s most astute and influential public affairs commentators. The author draws on the work of more than a hundred historians to trace the great failures of judgment that consigned millions to decades of subjugation under Soviet tyranny, and ended Europe’s central role in world affairs. This is also a valuable treatment of the origins and consequences of the First World War, and a sharp critique of the “cult” of Winston Churchill. Buchanan concludes with timely warnings about US foreign policy today.

 

Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, by Nicholson Baker. An important anti-war work that points out the how the belligerents violated established and widely accepted norms of “civilized” warfare, and plunged the world into new depths of barbarism. Noteworthy is the author’s unflattering highlighting of Winston Churchill and his role.

Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, by Paul Fussell. Moving, vivid look at the deeply harmful psychological impact of war on human beings, both as individuals and socially. An eloquent and sometimes bitter rebuke of the romanticized view of World War II as the “good war.”

History of the Second World War, by B. H Liddel-Hart, and, The Second World War, by J. F. C. Fuller. Two solid, reliable overviews of World War II, each by an outstanding British historian.

The Origins of the Second World War, by A. J. P. Taylor. An eminent British historian provides a brilliant critique of the widely accepted, “official” view of the origins of the 1939 conflict. Because the thesis of this book is so startlingly contrary to the prevailing view of Hitler and the origins of World War II, it came under fierce criticism when it was first published in 1961. All the same, its scholarship has held up well in the decades since. More recent evidence has strengthened the conclusions of this impressively argued and elegantly written study. The war between Germany, Poland, Britain and France that broke out in September 1939, the author shows, was not the result of an intentional plan by Hitler. “Far from wanting war, a general war was the last thing he wanted,” Taylor writes. “The war of 1939, far from being premeditated, was a mistake, the result on both sides of diplomatic blunders.”

Advance to Barbarism, by Frederick J. P. Veale. In this humane and provocative study, the author – an English attorney with a profound understanding of military history – skillfully debunks the simplistic image of World War II as a conflict between Good and Evil. Veale examines, for example, the holocaust of civilians perpetrated by the Allies, as in the infamous firebombing attacks on Dresden and Hamburg. He shows that it was Britain’s wartime leaders, not Hitler, who introduced the policy of strategic terror bombing. Establishes the illegality, immorality, and hypocrisy of the Nuremberg Trials. Harry Elmer Barnes called this “a very readable and impressive volume and a major contribution to any rational peace movement.”

The Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design to Start World War II, by Viktor Suvorov (Vladimir Rezun). The author, a Russian-born former officer of Soviet military intelligence, presents detailed evidence to show that Soviet leader Stalin was preparing to attack Germany and Europe in 1941, and that Hitler beat him to the punch. Persuasively establishes that Hitler struck eastwards because he anticipated an imminent Soviet assault. Published by the prestigious Naval Institute Press.

America’s Second Crusade, by William Henry Chamberlin. An award-winning American journalist and historian takes a close, critical look at the origins, course, and consequences of the US role in World War II. In this lucid and carefully researched survey, he examines President Roosevelt’s illegal efforts to push the US into war, the background story of the Pearl Harbor attack, US betrayal of its proclaimed principles, America’s wartime alliance with Stalinist Russia, the British-American stab-in-the-back of Poland, the hypocrisy and injustice of the Nuremberg trials, and more. Also reviews the calamitous results of America’s entry into the First World War. In Chamberlin’s view, the policies of the US leaders in the years before, during, and after World War II were delusional and hypocritical, and ultimately failed to achieve their stated goals.

‘Twas a Famous Victory: Deception and Propaganda in the War With Germany, by Benjamin Colby. This measured, well-researched book shows how US officials and the American media misled the public during World War II about important realities of the global conflict. Looks at how politicians, Hollywood producers, print media editors, and others denied or whitewashed Soviet atrocities and ambitions, and promoted hatred against Germans. The US mass media also massively deceived Americans about their President’s underhanded measures to bring the US into the European conflict, including his secretive, illegal war against Germany in 1940 and 194l. While President Roosevelt and British premier Churchill were loudly proclaiming their devotion to “democracy” and “freedom,” this book shows, the Allied leaders were betraying those pledges with secret arrangements to turn over millions to the brutal rule of Soviet dictator Stalin. The author also looks at the victorious Allies’ harsh treatment of the people of defeated and prostrate Germany.

Hitler’s War: Germany’s Key Strategic Decisions, 1940-1945, by Heinz Magenheimer. An Austrian military historian reviews the information and options that were available, and which seemed feasible and reasonable, to Hitler and other German military leaders at each critical phase of the war, and shows how and why decisions were made. In this careful examination of Germany’s conduct of World War II, the author reviews the various alternative policies and strategies that Hitler and the German leadership had to consider, and the reasoning behind the decisions that were taken. He identifies the policies that led to German military setbacks and, ultimately, to calamitous defeat.

The Last European War 1939-1941, by John Lukacs. A distinctive, thought-provoking perspective on World War II by a prolific Hungarian-born historian. Packed with shrewd insights and sparkling observations. Valuable for an understanding of the meaning and profound tragedy of the twentieth century, especially as experienced in Central Europe.

Warlords, by Simon Berthon and Joanna Potts. Subtitled “An extraordinary re-creation of World War II through the eyes and minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin.” The authors present an innovative and intriguing look at the global conflict, from May 1940 to April 1945, from the perspectives of the wartime leaders of Germany, Britain, the USA, and the Soviet Union. “This book,” say the authors in the foreword, “unashamedly takes the view that, in the war of 1939-1945, the personal decisions of the four titans at its heart also dictated its outbreak, its course and its consequences.” In the view of The World War II Quarterly, “Berthon and Potts show brilliantly how the four men shaped a new world … Articulate, crisp, and informed, this is a book worth reading.” The Library Journal called it “A lively narrative that shifts quickly from scene to scene, taking the reader along for the ride.”

After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation, by Giles MacDonogh. A British historian details how the ruined and prostrate Reich (including Austria) was systematically raped and robbed, and how many Germans who survived the war were either killed in cold blood or deliberately left to die of disease, cold, malnutrition, or starvation.

Nemesis at Potsdam: The Expulsion of the Germans From the East, by Alfred M. de Zayas. A moving account of the horrific flight and mass expulsion after World War II of some 14 million German-speaking men, women, and children from their ancestral homelands in eastern and central Europe. Some two million civilians, mostly women and children, died in this massive but largely forgotten “ethnic cleansing” – one of the worst human calamities of modern times.

The German Expellees: Victims in War and Peace, by Alfred M. de Zayas. A capable and highly-regarded scholar examines the grim but little-known fate of the millions of German civilians who came under Soviet rule as the Red Army swept across Eastern and Central Europe in the final months of World War II. On the basis of extensive research, he reviews not only the terrible ordeal of suffering, killing, and destruction imposed on these far-flung German communities, but also sketches their impressive record of achievement over the centuries.

Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy, 1933-1941, by Charles Callan Tansill. A comprehensive, scholarly survey by a leading twentieth-century American diplomatic historian. Explains how President Roosevelt turned to a policy of provoking war with Japan after vainly seeking to bring the US directly into the European conflict. Shows how Roosevelt succeeded in involving the US in the European conflict by provoking war with Japan. Includes valuable material on the European diplomatic situation in the 1930s.

Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath (George H. Nash, editor). A valuable examination by a former US president of the origins and course of World War II and its Cold War aftermath, and particularly President Franklin Roosevelt’s foreign policy in the years before the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, as well as during the war. David Kennedy, professor of history emeritus at Stanford University, calls this “a must-read for anyone interested in the most consequential upheaval of the twentieth century.” Even before Hoover took office as president in 1929, he was already esteemed as an accomplished engineer in four continents, a very successful businessman, and a capable administrator of overseas relief. Hoover devoted years of thought and research to this detailed work, which he considered his magnum opus. He shows how President Franklin Roosevelt deceitfully maneuvered the United States into an undeclared and illegal naval war with Germany in 1941. He shows how Roosevelt foolishly appeased Soviet dictator Stalin. Hoover also looks at the war’s calamitous consequences, including the expansion of the Soviet empire and the “cold war” US-Soviet rivalry.

Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War, by George Morgenstern. This classic work remains unsurpassed as the best one-volume look at the background to the Japanese attack on Hawaii in December 1941. Shows how the policies of the Japanese and US governments led inexorably to war. The author stresses the vigorous Japanese peace efforts and the failure of Washington authorities adequately to warn the Hawaiian commanders.

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: A Critical Examination of the Foreign Policy of Franklin D. Roosevelt and its Aftermath, edited by Harry Elmer Barnes. A collection of incisive essays by leading independent American historians on every aspect of President Roosevelt’s road to war. Shows how he maneuvered the US, against the wishes of most of Americans, into war against Germany and Japan, and how his war policy ended in betrayal, disillusion, and new conflict. Establishes convincingly that US participation in World War II was neither necessary, desirable, nor just. Edited by one of the most influential American scholars of the twentieth century. Concise, scintillating essays by outstanding independent scholars, including Charles C. Tansill, F. R. Sanborn, W. L. Neumann, G. Morgenstern, Percy L. Graves, Wm. H. Chamberlin, G.A. Lundberg, and Barnes himself. Shows how the US made a mockery of its own professed ideals during the “Good War.” Highly relevant for an understanding of how the US came to the calamitous military adventurism of more recent years.

 

Nuremberg: The Last Battle, by David Irving. An outstanding but much-maligned British scholar of World War II and Third Reich history closely examines the “Trial of Century” – the Nuremberg Tribunal of 1945-46. A masterwork of startling facts and myth-busting perspective – packed with revelations from long-suppressed private diaries and letters of judges, prosecutors, defendants and witnesses. Establishes that the Allies who sat in judgment were themselves guilty of many of the crimes for which the German defendants were tried and hanged. Exposes the Tribunal’s double standard – with the Allies acting as judge, prosecutor, jury, and executioner. Shows how Auschwitz Commandant Höss and other Germans were tortured to produce phony “evidence” that is still widely accepted today.

President Roosevelt and the Coming of War, 1941, by Charles A. Beard. An eminent American historian takes a highly critical look at the evolution of Roosevelt’s foreign policy from “isolationism” to interventionism and war. Published by Yale University Press. This scholarly, detailed account examines the political and diplomatic maneuvering during the months before the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

March 1939: The British Guarantee to Poland, by Simon Newman. Definitive study of how Britain’s leaders set aside the policy of “appeasement” to issue a fateful guarantee of military support for Poland that led inevitably to war with Germany. Published by Oxford University Press. Carefully reviews the maneuvering that brought on a European war. British policy under Prime Minister Chamberlain was not based on weakness or naïve trust in Hitler, as some historians have claimed, but rather on a long-term strategy of countering Third Reich Germany. The author demonstrates that British leaders knew that their March 1939 “blank check” guarantee of military support to Poland would almost certainly lead to armed conflict, but preferred war to a peaceful settlement between Germany and Poland over the Danzig-Corridor dispute. Confirms that Hitler’s goal was an alliance with Britain, not war.

Hitler vs. Stalin, 1941-1945, by John Mosier. A fresh, well-informed look at the most important battle theater of World War II, the “Eastern Front.” This is where the great global conflict was decided. The author rejects the conventional view that Hitler was mad to think he could defeat the USSR, and argues instead that Germany came close to winning. All too many historians, Mosier contends, have uncritically accepted exaggerated and self-serving Soviet claims.

The Suicide of Europe, by Mihail (Michel) Sturdza. This memoir by a Romanian diplomat who served for a time as his country’s foreign minister is a highly critical look at Allied policy during World War II. Sturdza, a nobleman who joined the Christian-nationalist “Legionary” movement of Corneliu Codreanu, had a long career in his country’s foreign service, including posts as ambassador.

Onward Christian Soldiers, by Donald Day. A remarkably frank book by an exceptionally well- informed American journalist who for 20 years was correspondent in northern Europe for the Chicago Tribune. In part a memoir, in part an insightful examination of social and political conditions in northeastern Europe during the interwar era, and in part a plea on behalf of Finland and the other countries that fought against the Soviet Union in World War II.

Stalin’s War of Extermination, 1941-1945: Planning, Realization and Documentation, by Joachim Hoffmann. Based in large measure on little-known Soviet documents, an outstanding German historian provides a grim, carefully researched indictment of Soviet policies and conduct during the Second World War. (Translation of Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941-1945.)

The Eastern Front, by Leon Degrelle. A vivid, moving first-hand account of World War II combat against the Soviets, provided by a brilliant young Belgian who volunteered for frontline service in 1941, and fought to the bitter end. Written by an unapologetic admirer of Hitler, this is also a defense of the Axis cause in World War II.

Apocalypse 1945: The Destruction of Dresden, by David Irving. Mass killing and terrorism were the sole objectives of the horrific February 1945 Allied air attack on Dresden, which British diplomat and author Harold Nicolson called “the single greatest holocaust by war.” Some 2,000 British and American bombers took part in the devastating raid on an undefended city packed with masses of women and children fleeing ad­vancing Soviet forces. This beautiful German city – one of Europe’s great cultural and ar­chitectural treasures – had no importance as a military target. Here is the full story – from the perspectives of both per­petrators and victims – including the historical-political context, of the horrific firestorm raid that took the lives of tens of thousands of innocent civilians who were burned alive, suffocated, or succumbed to poisonous fumes.

Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days, by Karl Dönitz. Commander of Germany’s formidable World War II submarine fleet, then Supreme Naval Commander, and finally Hitler’s successor in the last days of the Third Reich, the author has been condemned as a “Nazi criminal” and praised as one of the most brilliant and honorable military leaders of the war. In the great “Battle of the Atlantic,” his “wolfpack” tactics enabled a handful of U-boats to sink 14.5 million tons of Allied merchant and naval shipping. Sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Nuremberg Tribunal, Dönitz wrote this memoir upon his release. (Translation of Zehn Jahre, Zwanzig Tage.) In a clear, firm style he discusses the planning and execution of the U-boat campaign, America’s “neutrality” before its entry into the war, the Normandy D-Day invasion, the July 1944 bomb plot, his encounters with Raeder, Göring, Speer, Himmler and Hitler, his brief tenure as the last head of the German Reich, and much more.

Gruesome Harvest: The Costly Attempt to Exterminate the People of Germany, by Ralph Franklin Keeling. This well-researched and movingly written book – originally published in 1947 – is still one of the best works on the post-war treatment of conquered Germany. Looks at the amputation of centuries-old German territories, the mass expulsions of German civilians, the enslavement of German labor, the vindictive Morgenthau proposals, the sacking of German industry and the looting of German capital, the cynical designs of the Kremlin, the astounding naiveté and trust of US leaders toward the Soviet Union, the fallacies of “denazification” and “reeducation,” and the persistent problem of German “collective guilt.”

The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, by Gar Alperowitz. Shows that American leaders did not have to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to bring about Japan’s surrender.

1940: Myth and Reality, by Clive Ponting. In this concise work, a British historian critically examines widely accepted views about Britain’s policies and the fateful decisions of its leaders during the critical 1939-1941 period. He effectively dismantles a range of popular legends, including myths about London’s 1938-1939 policy of “appeasement,” Winston Churchill’s “bulldog” rhetoric and decisions, the British role in the April 1940 Norway campaign, and the role in May-June 1940 of British and French forces in the Low Countries and France. As Ponting shows, British policy in those years was in large measure based on wishful thinking or gross misunderstanding of important realities. Following the defeat of France in June 1940, Britain had no realistic prospect whatsoever of defeating Germany without enormous outside help. This meant that leaders in London faced the difficult choice of either accepting Hitler’s offers of peace (which were remarkably magnanimous) or holding out for support from the United States. The historic decisions by Britain’s leaders, above all by Churchill, to reject German peace proposals and continue the war to overthrow the Hitler regime, inevitably meant Britain’s inexorable subordination to, and dependency on, the United States. The year “1940 marked the end of Britain as an independent power,” concludes Ponting. Britain, Europe, and the world are still dealing with the long-term consequences of those decisions.

 

 

Which leads me full circle to Lt. Lyle Jensen of my parents’ 1938 high school graduating class in Hamburg, Iowa. Following the trail of Jensen led to the larger picture of the price paid by Southwest Iowans in the early days of the war after Pearl Harbor. Presumably none of the kids involved had any notion of FDR and the McCollum Memorandum, Central Banking, Fractional Reserve Banking, False Flag incidents, the paradox of an American “democracy” in a military alliance with Joseph Stalin, the Weimar Republic, the Frankfurt School’s Institute for Social Research, or the fact that many of these kids would perish courtesy of at least one incompetent combat commander whose pathetic performance would be rewarded not only by being relieved with subsequent transfer to the States, but an inexplicable promotion to Lieutenant General.

My initial story on Lyle Jensen is admittedly not for the politically faint of heart. I reproduce it here:

 

Greenfield, Iowa 60 miles to the southwest of Des Moines was tragically incinerated by a tornado several days ago in what used to be referred to as America’s Bible Belt in an age long gone. My parents’ hometown of Hamburg, Iowa in southwestern Fremont County which adjoins Nebraska and Missouri, is under extreme weather alerts as I type. The town was nearly destroyed a few years ago by a break in a levee for the Missouri River dam.

 

USMC Pfc. Arnold Dankof of Hamburg, Iowa somewhere in a Pacific War hellhole. He wouldn’t even tell my Father about it.

A much bigger storm in history with everlasting geopolitical implications globally approached Iowa and America in the fall of 1941. Charles Lindbergh came to Des Moines in September of 1941 to warn his countrymen as to its sources and the pivotal role of FDR in the plot. Pearl Harbor then exploded that December 7th.

 

My Father and my Uncle Arnold signed up for the United States Army Air Corps and the United States Marine Corps. My maternal Uncle Chuck Gooden was already in the United States Navy having been signed away by his mother at age 16. Uncle Chuck survived the Japanese attack and had a ringside seat to the explosions of the USS Arizona and USS Shaw. The war Lindbergh had foretold was on. It destroyed the American Republic forever. The American Empire began its ascent, to the eventual detriment of both the American people and the world.

German-Americans were prominent among the victims of 20th century European conflicts, but to my knowledge no one in Hamburg, Iowa then or now proved especially cognizant of this history or its consequences in a 21st century America littered with FISA courts, the USA Patriot Act, the National Defense Authorization Act, and the Anti-Semitism Review Act.

 

Joseph E. Fallon’s article for American Renaissance in 1999 reviews Arnold Krammer’s pivotal work entitled, “Undue Process: The Untold Story of America’s German Alien Internees,” which covers this tragedy as the counterpart of the Japanese-American experience after December 7th, 1941. Americans of Iranian, Russian, and Chinese backgrounds are now forewarned for their own discernment and protection.

 

Pearl Harbor survivor Charles T. Gooden (USN) of Hamburg, Iowa in a letter to Mark Dankof’s mother from an unknown location in the Pacific.

I have been broadcasting and writing about all of this extensively since 9-11. As close as we are to global holocaust in the wake of the Zionist, Neo-Conservative coalition’s ignition of the Russian-Ukrainian War and its support of Israeli genocide in Gaza and Palestine, the American public almost a quarter of a century after 9-11 seems as oblivious to the obvious as its counterpart in Iowa and the United States in the run up to December of 1941.

 

Rural small town America paid an excruciating price in that war. In the case of Hamburg, Iowa, a town of 2100 people lost 27 men as casualties of World War II. A total of 581 residents served in the wartime military, equaling approximately 28% of the town (Hamburg Reporter “Men and Women of World War II” photo album).

 

(Hamburg Reporter: “The Reporter Album: Men and Women of World War II”)

 

A denizen of Hamburg and a member of my parents’ Hamburg High School Class of 1938 was one of the 27 who didn’t make it. Lt. Lyle Jensen was killed in Italy on October 2nd, 1943. My parents knew him as a bright, congenial fellow who played the clarinet in the school band. In his graduation picture, one might be forgiven for mistaking him for one only 10 years of age. Slightly more than 5 years later, he was dead.

 

Lyle Jensen: Class of 1938 at Hamburg (Iowa) High School. 5 years later, he was gone.

Curiously enough, I found information on Jensen still extant through Russian Yandex search, which led me to the Washington County Nebraska Genealogical Society. Their synopsis of the Lyle Jensen story at life’s end is as follows:

Pilot Tribune 18 Nov 1943.Lt. Lyle Jensen Dies In Italy

Was Son Of Former Blair Businessman; Services Held In Iowa

Lt. Lyle M. Jensen of Hamburg, Ia., whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis M. Jensen of Hamburg, formerly operated a Blair bakery, was killed in action in Italy Oct. 2, the war department informed relatives early this week.

Spending a part of his childhood in Blair, Lt. Jensen attended Wentworth Military Academy at Lexington, Mo., and later was a student at the University of Iowa where he was commissioned as second lieutenant. He enlisted in the army and experienced a rapid advancement to the rank of first lieutenant. Ordered overseas, he served first in Africa, then in Italy.

Impressive memorial services, under the auspices of the Hamburg Ministerial Alliance, American Legion and Masonic lodge, were held Sunday, Nov. 14, in the Hamburg, Ia., high school auditorium.

Lt. Jensen is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louie M. Jensen, former proprietors of Blair’s Hansen bakery (now out of business) and a younger brother, Donald, all of Hamburg.

Blairites who attended the services for Lt. Jensen included Mr. and Mrs. R L. Hewett, Ms. Verne Gustason and James, and Mr. and Mrs. Ole Jensen.

Enterprise 18 Nov 1943

Lt. Lyle M. Jensen Killed In Action

Lt. Lyle M. Jensen of Hamburg, Iowa, son of Louie M. and Hazel Gustason Jensen, was killed in action in Italy on October 2nd.

His parents were the former owners of the Hansen Bakery in Blair.

Lyle attended Wentworth Military Academy at Lexington, Missouri, also the University of Iowa where he was commissioned Second Lieutenant, in the U.S. Army.

He then joined the army and was promoted to a first Lieutenant, in a short time. He was sent overseas, and was stationed in Africa, and later at the Italian battle front.

Impressive Memorial services under the auspices of the Hamburg Ministerial Alliance, American Legion and Masonic Lodge were held on Sunday, November 1, at the Hamburg Iowa High School Auditorium.

He leaves his highly respected parents, and a younger brother, Donald, to mourn his passing.

Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hewitt, Mrs. Verne Gustason and James, and Mr. and Mrs. Ole Jensen, of Blair were in attendance at the Memorial services.

Note: Buried in Hamburg Cemetery, Hamburg, Franklin, Iowa. Find a Grave # 7901674.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

 

Who knew in the small towns of the rural Midwest and the South pre-and-post Pearl Harbor the identity of The Tribe Lindbergh identified as the engineer of the Master Plan for War and global conquest? Who knew then what future decades would subsequently reveal?

 

Mark Dankof’s mother in pre-war Omaha in 1941. She would pass away at the age of 102 in San Antonio in December of 2023.

In an article for VT Foreign Policy last November, I reminded readers of the chronicle of the history of The Tribe and the implications:

 

Colonel Karl E. Dankof’s portrait on the Freedom Rock of Fremont County, Iowa, one of 99 for each county in the state.

The Tribe is not only at the center of the debacles unfolding in Ukraine and Gaza, but is historically the perpetrator of the wars of the 20th century; the creation of the Federal Reserve Board and fiat money; the bombing of the King David Hotel; the murder of Count Folke Bernadotte; the Lavon Affair; the Kennedy Assassinations; the NUMEC nuclear material thefts in Apollo, Pennsylvania; Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty in June of 1967; the Pollard-Ben Ami-and Iran NSC Spy Cases; the Iran-Iraq War 1980-88; the PROMIS affair; the Gulf Wars; 9-11; the Saddam Hussein WMD fraud perpetration; the demonization of Vladimir Putin; the promotion of Zelensky; the destruction of the historic European Christian culture of the United States and its targeted demographic decline and destruction; and the replacement of the latter with the effective and corrosive infiltration of American institutions and communities by the Cultural Marxism of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and the Frankfurt School’s Institute for Social Research.

 

Sanford Hern was the only African-American in Hamburg, Iowa for decades. How he got there I do not know. He raised rabbits on the town’s south end. He knew me as “Mr. Mark” when I was an Air Force kid coming back there every few years from places far away. (Hamburg Reporter: “The Reporter Album: Men and Women of World War II”)

What does all of this mean for the America of 2024 and kids removed from Lt. Lyle Jensen and World War II by 8 decades?

It means the following for young Americans on this Memorial Day weekend, including a kid I know in my community just out of high school who left for USMC boot camp in San Diego on Mother’s Day:

You will be fighting for a post-Christian America, drenched in LGBTQ ideology and practice, guilty of supporting Israeli genocide in Gaza and Palestine, and attempting the destruction of the sovereignty of nation-states like Russia, China, and Iran in an effort that will fail, but not until hundreds of thousands or millions of innocents perish. A World Government under the command of The Tribe is inherently Antichrist. The persecution, incarceration and martyrdom of Russian Orthodox Church clergy and laity is a prototype of the future. Are you ultimately fighting for Christ or Caesar? Christ or The Synagogue? 

 

You will be fighting for a government that has allowed 30 million illegal aliens to enter the United States with impunity, even as that same government has deliberately facilitated the exportation of the once mighty American manufacturing leviathan abroad. You will be fighting for a government that has allowed and protected levels of lawlessness in all of our major cities currently close to 4th stage terminal cancer.

You will be fighting for a government whose ideological agenda merges Multinational Corporate Fascism and Central Banking with Cultural Marxism and which deploys the most technologically sophisticated surveillance capabilities ever witnessed in history against lawful dissenters, even as the Constitution of the United States and the rule of law no longer restrain a Zionist Occupied Government hellbent on the ignition of World War III and the imposition of domestic police states throughout the Western world.

I conclude on this Memorial Day weekend with four conclusions that emerge from my observations of this murderous Tribal Cabal and where it has brought the United States in my lifetime. First, The Tribe and The Empire are irrevocably evil. Second, The Tribe and The Empire will thankfully be comprehensively destroyed, but only when Jesus Christ returns to judge the living and the dead. Third, the enemies of a newly emerging American generation of young people are not Russia, Iran, and China, but a moral and spiritual degeneracy embraced by their own government, media, educational system, professional and collegiate sports racket, and entertainment industry.

 

Artist: Igor Dubovoy (1972) “On the Hill” Materials: Oil on canvas. Although this Moscow artist has loved to draw since childhood, he has no professional education. However, his works evoke such a spiritual delight. See https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCfFHz0Lb3oPAdd32deMLFpQ and https://wooarts.com/igor-dubovoy/

And fourthly on this Memorial Day, if armed defense of the American homeland ever becomes necessary for home and hearth, the enemy will not be wearing foreign military uniforms and regalia. There is a reason The Tribe and The Empire are removing statues of Robert E. Lee. There is a reason now why The Tribe attempts to destroy any American deemed a danger to The Plan.

American kids old enough to fight and die need to read and think about all of this, even if it marks the first truly independent thoughts of their lives in their remaining days, with the duration known only to God.

The clock to Midnight is ticking.

 

Two years later, the research on the tragedy of Southwest Iowa after Pearl Harbor continues below in the memory of these fallen young people. It continues in the 2026 context of what would appear to be the weakening American-Israeli alliance and the decline of the EU States vs. China-Russia-and Iran likely to claim the 21st century as its own. May the American kids of 2026 have their lives preserved, and may the Zio-American Empire die a much deserved death, even as the thoughtful and the discerning pray for the return of the Old American Republic in the spirit of the prophetic warning of Charles Lindbergh in Des Moines, Iowa on a September evening 85 long years ago.

The Battle of Kasserine Pass and the preceding engagement at Sidi Bou Zid in February 1943 were devastating for the

168th Infantry Regiment of the 34th “Red Bull” Infantry Division. This regiment was largely comprised of National Guard units from Southwest Iowa towns such as Council Bluffs, Glenwood, Shenandoah, Hamburg, and Red Oak.

 

While an exact, singular “Kasserine” death count specifically for “Southwest Iowans” is difficult to isolate from the broader Tunisian campaign, the impact on these communities was catastrophic.

 Casualty Overview for the 168th Infantry

Total Casualties: At Sidi Bou Zid and Kasserine Pass, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 168th Infantry were effectively destroyed as fighting units.

Killed in Action: Dozens were killed during the encirclement of Djebel Lessouda and Djebel Ksaira.

Prisoners of War: The vast majority of the “lost” Iowans were captured. Approximately 1,400 to 1,900 men from the 168th were taken prisoner by German forces during this period.

Community Impact: In some Southwest Iowa towns, nearly every family was affected, as the local National Guard company was the primary unit involved.

Most Southwest Iowans involved were in these specific units:

Company L (Council Bluffs): Heavily engaged at Sidi Bou Zid.

Company M (Red Oak): Known for suffering some of the highest casualty/capture rates.

Company E (Glenwood): Part of the 168th’s 2nd Battalion.

Company I (Glenwood/Shenandoah): Also heavily impacted.

The town of Hamburg, Iowa—located in Fremont County—is often cited in historical records as one of the hardest-hit communities in Iowa relative to its size during World War II.

Many of the men from Hamburg served in the 168th Infantry Regiment of the 34th “Red Bull” Division.

 

The 34th “Red Bull” Division of World War II.

While exact counts can vary by source due to differences in residency classification (e.g., hometown at enlistment vs. birthplace), there are at least 27 documented fallen soldiers from the Hamburg area.

 The 168th Infantry Connection

A large number of Hamburg men were part of Company I or Company E of the 168th Infantry. This unit suffered extreme casualties and mass captures at the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid and Kasserine Pass in February 1943. While many from Hamburg survived the war, a high percentage spent years in German POW camps (Oflags/Stalags).

First Lieutenant Lyle Marvin Jensen (1921–1943) of Hamburg, Iowa, was a highly respected officer who was killed in action during the Italian Campaign on
October 2, 1943

He was serving with Company K of the 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, at the time of his death.

Service History

Education: A 1938 graduate of Hamburg High School, where he was a talented musician and played clarinet in the band.

 

The Class of 1938 for Hamburg, Iowa in Fremont County included Lt. Lyle Jensen, Colonel Karl Dankof (Army Air Corps and USAF), two contributors to the Manhattan Project under Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago, and Mark Dankof’s mother who was the Class Valedictorian.

 

Military Training: He attended Wentworth Military Academy in Missouri and the University of Iowa, where he received his commission as a Second Lieutenant.

Deployment: He served first in North Africa before being sent to the Italian front and experienced a rapid promotion to First Lieutenant during his service.

Circumstances of Death:

He was killed in the Provincia di Avellino, Campania region of Italy during the Allied push north after the landings at Salerno.

Based on the article by Mark Dankof for VT Foreign Policy, here are further details regarding Lt. Jensen’s life and the impact of the war on his hometown:

 Life and Background
Education and Youth: Lyle Jensen was a member of the Hamburg High School Class of 1938. He was remembered by peers as a “bright, congenial fellow” who played the clarinet in the school band.

Military Training: Before his deployment, he attended Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri, and later the University of Iowa, where he received his commission as a second lieutenant.

 Impact on Hamburg, Iowa

The source provides a stark look at how heavily World War II affected the small community of Hamburg:

Total Service Members:

Approximately 581 residents served in the military during the war, which accounted for roughly 28% of the town’s population at the time.

Total Casualties: Out of a population of 2,100, the town lost 27 men as casualties of the war. Lt. Jensen is noted as one of these 27 individuals.

The 27 men from Hamburg who died in World War II represent a staggering loss for a town that had only about 2,100 residents at the time. This toll was largely driven by the town’s heavy involvement in the 168th Infantry Regiment (34th “Red Bull” Division) and the 3rd Infantry Division.

Lt. Lyle Jensen’s 3rd Infantry Division, known as “The Rock of the Marne,” was one of the few U.S. units to fight on all European fronts during World War II, seeing significant action in North Africa, Sicily, and mainland Italy.

 

1st Lt. Lyle Jensen’s unit, the 30th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division, played a key role in the Allied drive toward Rome during the autumn of 1943. Key Actions in Campania (September – October 1943)

The Liberation of Montecorvino Rovella: On September 21, 1943, shortly after the initial Salerno landings, the 30th Infantry Regiment successfully liberated the town of Montecorvino Rovella. This was a critical step in pushing German forces northward and securing the Salerno beachhead.

The Volturno River Crossing: In mid-October 1943, the 30th Infantry participated in the bloody crossing of the Volturno River. This was the first major German defensive line south of Rome. The 30th’s heavy weapons companies provided vital cover fire to support the assault.

Breaching the Mignano Gap: Later that year, the regiment fought to open the Mignano Gap, a narrow pass heavily defended by German forces that was essential for the Allied advance toward the Liri Valley and Rome.

 

Significant Context

Lt.Jensen was killed on October 2, 1943, during the transition between these major operations—likely as the unit was clearing German rear-guard positions in the mountains of Avellino while moving toward the Volturno line. His unit’s resilience during this period earned the division its famous nickname, “The Rock of the Marne,” and established it as one of the most battle-hardened American units in the European Theater.

“Attack, attack, attack!” had become the division’s slogan early in its fighting career. With that battle cry it had gone on to complete a record that included: 517 days of front line combat in five major campaigns (more combat days than any other American division in any theatre of the war, with some elements of the division credited with over 600 days); 21,362 casualties (3,737 killed, 14,165 wounded, 3,460 missing in action); 20 Medals of Honor; 98 Distinguished Service Crosses; and 1,072 Silver Stars.

In addition to the personal awards and decorations, the division garnered three Presidential Unit Citations, 15 Unit Commendations and 525 separate division citations. The French government awarded the 34th the Croix de Guerre With Palms for gallantry in action alongside French troops. The 100th “Nisei” Infantry Battalion, composed of US citizens of Japanese descent and attached to the 34th for much of the Italian Campaign, became the most highly decorated battalion in the US Army.

But for men of the 34th, the victory over Germany was bittersweet. Not only had the price of their victory come high, it was their unfortunate lot that once the Allies hit the beaches at Normandy, Italy became a forgotten front. Even when the division returned to the US, it was inactivated in obscurity and its men dismissed without fanfare or so much as a final parade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Dankof

Mark Dankof is an ordained Lutheran pastor and the former 36th District Chairman of the Republican Party in King County/Seattle. He was an elected delegate to Texas State Republican Conventions in 1994 and 1996 and entered the United States Senate race in Delaware in 2000 as the nominated candidate of the Constitution Party against Democratic candidate Thomas Carper and Republican incumbent William Roth.

Mark is the host of The Dankof Report for the Republic Broadcasting Network and is occasionally seen abroad on Press TV, the Tasnim News Agency, IRINN, Geopolitika, Katehon, and Sputnik. His lectures for Texas homeschoolers on subjects like Dispensationalism and Christian Zionism, the American Empire, I John, Jonah, and Lutheran theology are accessible online. His voluminous post on the Book of Matthew for Texas Homeschoolers is entitled “Deception, Discernment, and ‘Wandering Stars’.”

Mark’s interview with the Fars News Agency on 9-11 and his presentation on Pearl Harbor and False Flag Methodology for the American Free Press National Conference of 2013 in Austin, Texas are considered two of the American Alt Right’s most significant contributions of the last 25 years.

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$280+ BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation
150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts
Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State.

 

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