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(Daguerrotype of Samuel Morse, 1840. Perhaps taken by Louis Daguerre himself) He was a master portrait artist, a virulent hater of Catholics, and a supporter...
By Charles Nesbitt US Army Nineteen-seventy-two was a year of terror in West Germany. The Red Army Faction, a left-wing extremist group also known as...
When Congress created Maritime Day in 1933 hardly anyone noticed. It was in the First Hundred Days of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, and all eyes...
For many years, National Park Service tour guide Allen McCabe has been producing the Vietnam Memorial Fact Sheet for anyone with an interest in the...
Last week, we were honored to have ARVN veteran Chieu Le come and tell his story of where he was during the Fall of Saigon....
By Todd DePastino (UPI) One of the most iconic photographs of the Vietnam War, and the most iconic photograph of the Fall of Saigon, is...
By Glenn Flickinger The US Army Was Puny: When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, the US Army consisted of 190,000 enlisted men and...
Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. US Coast Guard veteran Amanda Doughty grew up mostly in Georgia and Florida and recalls her father...
by Harry Miller, WWII Veteran Harry Miller joined us April 19 and shared the story about how his 740th Tank Battalion captured an elusive and...
By Todd DePastino The third Monday of the month is a big holiday in Massachusetts. The kids have a day off school, the Red Sox...
During our virtual breakfast last Wednesday morning, we talked with John Krul of the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, which saw the...
Join Us Tuesday, April 20 at 7:00pm on Zoom for a Discussion of the MGM classic, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)! Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo...
