OK. I’ll admit it. I’m am totally amped about the “Hunger Games” movie that premieres tonight at midnight. I like to know what my kids are reading, that is, if I can stomach it. True I didn’t make it through three chapters of “Twilight” and would rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon than [...]
In this Letters From War Wednesday, we feature a short note home from PFC. Robert Jeffries, written in June 1944, while he was serving in the Pacific. “Well, this is pass day and we find ourselves headed for the bustling city of Honolulu, a city part Oriental, part Americanized, picturesque with the romance and traditions [...]
Yes! Yes! This past Saturday was St. Patrick’s Day, one of my favorite holidays of the year. It always seems a bit strange when it falls on a weekend though. I must admit that I enjoy the serious revelers who take the day off work to start drinking beer at 7:00 am. Local Fort Wayne [...]
Good Monday morning! I trust we all survived one of my favorite weekends of the year–wall-to-wall basketball. Let’s take a gander at a truly unique 90th Infantry Division Pic of the Week. Members of a tank destroyer unit have set up shop, poised and ready to repel any German armor advance. The crew includes, left [...]
It’s opening Friday of March Madness, but still time for the Weekly History Wrap Up. This one’s hitting a little too close to home. Former employees of the old Joslyn Manufacturing plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, are being sought out regarding their exposure to radiation. Workers extruded uranium billets into rods for the Manhattan Project [...]
Returning to the “History of 741st Tank Battalion, for months of June and July 1944,” we pick up the action where we left off on Tuesday, with the surviving tanks of the 741st hitting bloody Omaha Beach on D-Day. “…The DD tanks which succeeded in reaching the shore immediately opened fire on the entrenched enemy [...]
Danny Weber served in the Vietnam War with the 13th Combat Aviation Battalion. In this Letters From War Wednesday, we feature a short note from Weber to his father, Jack, back home. In October 1967, Weber turned 20 and set foot in Vietnam. “I thought I would write and let you know we made it [...]
I recently came across an interesting “History of the 741st Tank Battalion, for the months of June and July 1944″–typed pages stapled together and stamped “SECRET.” The 741st was attached to the Big Red One for the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach – Normandy, France. Among other weaponry the 741st employed the truly unique Sherman [...]
In this edition of the 90th Infantry Division Pic of the Week, we return to Hof, Germany.
TGIF, and time for the Weekly History Wrap Up. A conservation group is in negotiations with a local land developer in York, Pennsylvania, attempting to save the site of Camp Security, a Revolutionary War prison camp. A Massachusetts-made Civil War cannon, first confiscated by Confederates, then later liberated by the Union army at the Battle [...]