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written by Todd DePastino History often happens when we’re not paying attention. That was the case in the early 1980s, when even those serving in...
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 (Museum of American Armor) Road accidents were a problem in World War II Britain, despite the effective ban on all private...
written by Rona Simmons Simmons aboard Italian ocean liner with father I’m a brat. My father was a retired, career-military lieutenant colonel in the US...
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...
