Archive for November 2013
Seeking Sponsors for German Translation of Krupp Banishment Book
Author David Stroebel is seeking persons or parties expressing a financial interest in seeing the book, The Cannon King’s Daughter, translated to German language in order that the findings of his book can reach the masses of German citizenship, thus increasing awareness, understanding and possibly new leads in the investigation of the banishment of Engelbertha Krupp. Serious inquiries only. Please email the author at info@davidstroebel.com
Thank you,
David Stroebel
Bombshell Report Coming?
There may be a potential bombshell report coming from outside the US from the descendants of the Illegitimate Krupp child and the child’s true identity. Working to corroborate this lead as we speak.
Unrecorded Child Surfaces in the Krupp Dynasty
So it was revealed yesterday in an Essen, Germany newspaper story about my book, The Cannon King’s Daughter, that Alfred Krupp (1812-1887) fathered an illegitimate son and that it was a heavily guarded secret up until 10 years ago when historian Burkhard Beyer discovered the unrecorded Krupp child just as I discovered an unrecorded banishment in the Krupp dynasty. I can only imagine what consequences were hung over this man’s head if he revealed what he had discovered.
It’s getting good…
Engelbertha’s Fight
Tell Frau Ursula Gather, head of the Alfried Krupp Foundation in Essen, Germany, that the truth must be known. If evidence proves correct, Engelbertha Krupp, as all women do, has a right to her very existence by way of her church records. Frau Gather must allow the Krupp Foundation to open it’s archives to researchers to search for additional evidence of Engelbertha’s life by way of photographs like the one appearing on derwesten.de. “Like” my author Facebook page and tell Frau Gather, “YES!” to allow researchers examine the Krupp archives. https://www.facebook.com/pages/David-Stroebel/278689682196387
Youtube Krupp Book Lectures
Book lecture at the Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution
Photo Analysis Supports Krupp Dynasty Banishment Theory
World War II Book Club, Millburn, New Jersey (Dr. John J. McLaughlin)
Onboard JFK’s Presidential Airlifter on November 22nd
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Of all the interesting and wonderful things I have been able to do thanks to my Air Force reserve career happened 20 years ago this November 22nd. It was while I was performing temporary duty at Andrew’s Air Force Base in Maryland helping the 459th Airlift Wing historian, Master Sergeant Walter Davis, catch-up on his history program. I was invited down to Andrews AFB by Brigadier General Clayton T. Gadd, commander of the 459th at the urging of Dr. Charles O’Connell, Director of the Air Force Reserve Command history program. I stayed at Andrews for six months, and during that time it coincided with what was then the 30th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination.
What an opportunity it was to be able to get onboard the presidential airlifter that brought President John F. Kennedy back from Dallas after his assassination. So I called the 1st Airlift Squadron assigned to the 89th Airlift Wing at Andrews and informed them I was from the 459th History Office and that I wanted to write a piece on the presidential airlifter that brought Kennedy back from Dallas.
Much to my amazement, and delight, the Airman on the phone began to read off the dates when the aircraft, he called, twenty-six thousand, would be available. He explained that pilots routinely flew the aircraft for proficiency training. When he mentions November 22nd, I immediately accepted that day with childish glee.
After a few days passed and November 22, 1993, arrived, I went to the hanger where I was to meet a member of the 1st Airlift Squadron for a tour of “twenty-six thousand.” I was truly in awe standing before the very aircraft millions of television viewers were fixated upon when President Kennedy made his last, solemn return to Washington, DC.
As we approached twenty-six thousand, I immediately noticed an oddity surrounding each of the aircraft’s four jet engine exhausts. Having spent six years maintaining jet engines, I curiously asked my tour guide what it was that I was seeing. “That’s a passive defense system,” he said. “That’s all I can tell you. It’s classified.”
I used every ounce of reasoning to figure out what kind of passive defense system I was looking at. I came to the conclusion that it could have only three purposes: to jam whatever it was that would trying to fly up to the aircraft’s six o’clock position (check-six for you military-types) and listen to communications, to hurl countermeasures (anti-aircraft missile flares) out of the inside/bottom of the aircraft, or they in fact were missile locks designed to track and lock on to enemy fighter aircraft and guide onboard air-to-air missiles to them. But where would they be launched from? The only place they could be stowed is in the belly of the aircraft. I best leave that mystery to presidential airlifter historians.
We entered the aircraft from the front-left just aft the communications officer’s position. I immediately noticed the décor of the aircraft seemed very much like the early 1960’s- and I was correct. My guide told me that Jacqueline Kennedy expressed her strong desire to preserve the exact look of twenty-six thousand for history. I was next directed to the spot where then Vice-President Lyndon Baines Johnson stood while taken the oath of office. I could now imagine the hysteria that consumed twenty-six thousand that day as Air Force Colonel James B. Swindal sped down the runway at Love Field enroute for Washington.
Against the left-rear side of twenty-six thousand, I was shown where a partition wall was removed to allow President Kennedy’s coffin to be turned upon entering the aircraft. It lay untouched near the aircraft’s rear passenger door- some 30,000 feet above the ground while the world waited, watched and reacted to the death of their American President.
The rest is history…
Author Dave Stroebel 