By Glenn Flickinger The US Army Was Puny: When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, the US Army consisted of 190,000 enlisted men and 14,000 officers. They were unprepared, ill-trained, ill-equipped, and not ready for Prime Time. They were also old. The average Major was 48. A quarter of all lieutenants
Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. US Coast Guard veteran Amanda Doughty grew up mostly in Georgia and Florida and recalls her father having one of the most hazardous jobs in the Navy: an underwater welder. “A ‘flash’ almost blinded him permanently when he was in Charleston, so Dad
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.
