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 cars after March 1942. The source of the problem was largely the Yanks—over 2 million of them—and their fleet of trucks and jeeps. The Americans knew how
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 Air Force. He served in World War II as a fighter pilot, exited after the war, but returned to the military after the Korean War and the
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 the Air, Episode 7, “The Hell Over Berlin.” Marilyn served as an advisor on the Apple TV + series and shared her expertise with us on Greatest Generation Live.
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 we gotten as much readers' mail as we did in response to John Barber's story about elephants in Vietnam. In that post, I asked readers if they had ever
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 of Germany in World War II—the men of A and B batteries of the 319th Glider Field Artillery received unusual orders from 82nd Airborne Headquarters: they were
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 buddy, Bill Jeffcoat. After several infractions, we were given a novel punishment: a few days working in Graves Registration. GR, as it was called, was the process of bringing
