“Terror strikes in Grozny” (International Herald Tribune, 2004)

A young girl is murdered in the city of Miropol, Ukraine. More than 250 civilians were massacred in this way in the garden of the city’s town hall. (October 13, 1941)

My grandparents at their elopement in Reno in 1942

Vodka brought a lot of misfortune and evil to the family. USSR 1985

B-17G Fortress aircraft ‘Pistol Packin Mama’ of the 91st Bomb Group, 324th Bomb Squadron based at RAF Bassingbourn, England, 1944.