re: Pictures from days gone by....

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Juliane Koepcke was 17 years old when her plane flying from Lima, Peru to the Amazon crashed - leaving no survivors but her. The plane was hit by lightning and broke into pieces, and - still strapped to her chair - Juliane fell 10,000 feet down into the middle of the rainforest. The teenager spent the next 11 days in survival mode, tending to her wounds with gasoline and eating sweets from the pockets of a dead passenger she found while walking. She walked for days before coming across a small hut where three missionaries found her and eventually took her to the hospital by boat. Out of 91 passengers on board, including her mother, Juliane was the sole survivor. At just 17, she survived 11 days in the Peruvian rainforest alone.

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They say when it’s your time to go, you go, and I guess the converse is true. Most would not survive either of those events.

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Juliane Koepcke was 17 years old when her plane flying from Lima, Peru

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This rang a bell because I remember seeing a Koepcke's Screech Owl in Peru and thinking it was an odd name. The owl was nambed for Juliane's mother; her parents were doing research at a wildlife station in the Amazon. She probably knew how to handle herself in the Amazon better than anybody else on that plane.

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Out of 91 passengers on board, including her mother, Juliane was the sole survivor. At just 17, she survived 11 days in the Peruvian rainforest alone.

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Incredible. The namesake of the owl was killed in that crash.

Photo I got of the owl.

The full story on this photo: On April 7, 1945, around 2,500 Jewish prisoners were put on a train, for the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, and watched over by SS guards.

On April 13, after six days of traveling, the train suddenly stopped. The SS guards were ordered to destroy the train and drown the passengers in the Elbe river. However, before the SS guards could carry out their plan, Regiment 743 of the 30th Division of the US Army, of which Lt. Frank Winchester Towers was the liaison officer came upon the train.

Backed up by the regiments tanks, the US soldiers approached the train and when the people on board saw them they shouted, “We’re Jews!”. The regiment then captured the Nazi soldiers before they could carry out their murderous plans, and liberated the train, freeing 2,500 people on board.

Drones, 1962

Spanish Civil War appeal, c.1937

look out Bosley!

The OT Handbook

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Irish Immigrant Railroad Workers

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That’s a group of baws you don’t frick with