Two Sundays ago, during a game against the visiting Raiders, the Pittsburgh Steelers honored WWII Navy veteran Julia Parsons on the field for her working decoding Enigma messages in the North Atlantic. Watch the tribute video to Julia screened at Heinz Field before the 3rd Quarter. CBS sideline reporter Aditi Kinkhabwala
Thank you to Navy veteran Chris Pirollo for telling us about the San Diego Web Cam, which is really a collection of webcam views that capture the comings and goings of Navy ships in San Diego Bay. You can choose from several vantages and watch live, or select a recorded playlist of Navy
by Todd DePastino (Smithsonian) The most famous stuffed pigeon in history has one leg, one eye and resides at the Smithsonian Institution, an artifact of the famous “Lost Battalion” saga that took place 103 years ago this week. On October 2, 1918, 554 men of the 77th Infantry Division found themselves trapped
The answer is yes, though what we call a “vaccine” didn’t exist in 1777. Instead, people protected themselves from the deadly smallpox virus by inhaling crushed smallpox scabs (gross!) or having their skin scraped with someone else’s smallpox pus (grosser!). The practice was controversial, as you can imagine, but in 1777, rising
Historian Stephen Taaffe, author of Marshall and His Generals, joins us on Greatest Generation Live to discuss how General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U.S. Army during World War II, selected his top combat commanders according to their character, education, wisdom, and energy. Some of his choices, like Ike
(Library of Congress) Ed Kolasinski (Dave Kolasinski) Dave Kolasinski emailed to say he’d recently discovered his father’s “little black book” from WWII. Included were names and addresses of all the women he managed to date while in the Army. Among
