#OnThisDay 1951 Two Irishmen were Killed in Action during combat at Hoengsong in the Korean War. Corporal Michael Gannon (Left) from Achill Island, Mayo Pfc Michael Thomas King (Right) from Elphin, Roscommon. Both were buried in their respective parishes.
#OnThisDay 1922 A bomb was thrown into a group of children playing on a lamp post swing on (Catholic) Weaver St. Belfast, killing six & horrifically maiming more. Ulster Special Constables were seen directing the bombers to the street just before the attack.
#OnThisDay 1942 Lt-Cmdr Eugene Esmonde, from Tipperary, led six planes in an attack, with little chance of success, against the well defended German ships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau & Prinz Eugen. All 6 planes were shot down & Esmonde received a posthumous VC.
#OnThisDay 1937 Christopher ‘Kit’ Conway was killed in action at the Battle of Jarama during the Spanish Civil War. Conway fought during the WoI & the Civil War, before signing up to the International Brigade to fight Franco’s Nationalist forces in Spain.
#Onthisday 1921 Kay McNulty, the mother of modern-day computer programming was born in Donegal. McNulty’s family moved to the US where she got a degree in Mathematics which she used to compute artillery ballistic trajectories for the US Army during #WW2.
The Irish at War 