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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 Not since our post about the Navy peacoat’s demise or our (failed) attempt to define what a Warrant Officer is, have...
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 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...
written by Todd DePastino On February 17, 1979, China launched over 200,000 soldiers across its southern border in a “punitive war” against Vietnam that would...
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 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 Pat Jernigan (Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired) I’m a proud Vietnam veteran, and sometimes I’ll wear a hat that identifies me as such. Occasionally,...
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 DePastino Marion, Ohio, Army veteran Mike Crabtree is a retired firefighter and self-described history nerd. In 2018, his curiosity got the best...
written by Todd DePastino We’ve heard a lot of chilling stories, beautifully told, but John “Lucky” Luckadoo, who served as a B-17 co-pilot and survived...
