Todd DePastino Franz-Ferdinand's Gräf & Stift at the Imperial War Museum, Vienna On June 28, 1914, a driver made a wrong turn in Sarajevo, and the world stumbled across an unseen geopolitical tripwire. A Gräf & Stift open-topped touring car stopped outside Schiller’s Delicatessen on Franz Josef Street. Inside
After the landing at Inchon, South Korea, on September 15, 1950, a patrol of ten SeaBees volunteered to go behind enemy lines and commandeer several locomotives located at the Kirin brewery. The Seabees captured eight locomotives and began racing back to American lines . . . but not before they threw aboard
Several years ago, WWII veteran George Herwig told a story at the Veterans Breakfast Club about turning out for physical training in 1943 at the Coast Guard Training Station in Brooklyn. Stepping forward to lead the men was a burly “old guy,” a lieutenant, by the name of William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey,
In the wake of our conversation about returning Japanese WWII flags to families in Japan, Vietnam veteran Jim Roberts casually mentioned he used hoax souvenir flags for bartering with unsuspected GIs. Jim wrote about this in his book, MAT 111, Dong Xaoi, Vietnam, 1971. Jim spent a year in Vietnam as part
One of our Vietnam Marines, Ren Bergman, sent this moving poem dedicated to Vietnam vets. My 18th birthday, January 31, 1968, was the first day of the Tet Offensive. 246 US service members died that day, making it the deadliest 24 hours of the Vietnam War. It was also the day I
Celebrate the Army Birthday with us! June 14 @ 7pm ET Colonial Americans disliked standing armies so much, they fought a war for two months before creating one. From the first shot at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 to the Second Continental Congress’s resolution creating the Continental Army on
