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written by Lawrence Obrist (Lawrence Obrist) In 1968, I served as an Army social work and psychology specialist in Company D of the 25th Medical...
written by Marilyn Walton  Apple TV+ WWII Eighth Air Force historian and US POW expert, Marilyn Walton, sent us a response to her viewing of...
written by Bob Von Bargen Robert McNamara meeting with Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House (LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto) My experience...
written by Todd DePastino Sleeping quarters in Wöbbelin, a subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp (National Archives) On May 4, 1945—just hours from the final surrender...
written by Todd DePastino Not since our post about the Navy peacoat’s demise or our (failed) attempt to define what a Warrant Officer is, have...
written by Marilyn Walton  WWII Eighth Air Force historian and US POW expert, Marilyn Walton, sent us a response to her viewing of Masters of...
written by Todd DePastino  (Museum of American Armor) Road accidents were a problem in World War II Britain, despite the effective ban on all private...
written by John Barber I’ve heard of elephants used in the Vietnam War, but I’ve never talked with a veteran who saw one in-country. Nor...
written by Steve Snyder For months, Apple TV+ has been using the photograph above in its publicity for Masters of the Air, a state-of-the-art 9-part...
written by SSGT Forrest Purdy, USAFRES SSGT Forrest Purdy, USAFRES, Manas AB, Kyrgyzstan, 2007 GWOT veteran Forrest Purdy wrote us after reading Vietnam Marine Jack...
written by Todd DePastinoI got to know Bill Bonnamy on our 2018 WWII Battlefield of Europe, where we traveled from Paris and Normandy, through Holland,...
written by Jack Woodard As an 18-year-old Marine dog handler in Vietnam, I often found lots of ways to get in trouble, as did my...