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 formidable target: a German King Tiger (Tiger Royal Mark VI) tank. Tiger 332 was the only in-tact tank of its kind captured during the war, 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 play a morning start game at Fenway, and the Boston Marathon is run (except in 2020-2021). That’s because on April 19, 1775, the “Shot Heard ‘Round
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 largest single day loss of American life during the Vietnam War on March 2, 1968. This photo of a 4th Battalion member holding an M79 grenade launcher
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 tells the story of the historic Doolittle Raid, America's first retaliatory air strike against Japan, four months after the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
On Monday night, April 19 at 7:00pm, we will welcome two WWII veterans, 99-year-old Phil Horowitz in Florida and 92-year-old Harry Miller in Manchester, PA. I’ve highlighted Harry’s age for a reason: do the math. He really shouldn’t be old enough to have served in WWII. And he wasn’t. He joined the
By Jim Lutz Tachikawa, Japan, in the spring of 1957, was the wettest place on earth. It rained non-stop for weeks at a time. Everything was damp. Everything sprouted mold and mildew. Our Brogans, even our wool winter blue uniforms, had to be cleaned constantly. It seemed our very bodies were
