In the early days of the Iraq War—before “google” became a verb and Facebook even existed—the World Wide Web (as we called it then) delivered this creepy-crawly photo to AOL and Yahoo inboxes nationwide. The accompanying email explained how dog-sized Camel Spiders could run 25 miles per hour, jump six feet in the air,
By Genevieve Norwood, Army nurse This story comes to us from Rich Norwood (USAF, ret), whose aunts Genevieve and (right) and Katherine Norwood (left) were Army nurses in WWII. Genevieve served in North Africa, Corsica and Italy. Katherine served in France and England. After the war they settled in Canonsburg, PA,
PT Boat 109 commanded by LT John F. Kennedy The Navy, more than any branch, harbors mysteries. How long is a fathom? What is “gedunk”? How do you pronounce “boatswain” or “fo’cle”? Who is Davy Jones, and what’s in his locker? But even the Navy has a hard time explaining the most
The monument at the starting point of the Alaska Highway Ten years ago, WWII veteran Henry Geyer came to the Veterans Breakfast Club and told us about building the Alaskan (Alcan) Highway with the Army Corps of Engineers in 1942. He didn’t have fond memories of the Yukon wilderness. “I hated it!”
Last week on the Scuttlebutt, Marine Corps vet James Martin told a hilarious story about when the first guy in his squad was finally able to take a shower after 3 months without one. While he doesn't remember who it was, he does remember what shampoo was used. His story is hilarious--TikTok loved it, too!
All he did was give candy to children. But in doing so, Lt. Gail Halvorsen inadvertently launched what was perhaps the greatest publicity campaign of the Cold War. One day during the Berlin Airlift in July 1948, C-54 pilot Halvorsen saw thirty hungry children huddled outside the barbed wire at Tempelhof Airport. “When the
