By Todd DePastino Bill Bonnamy's website dedicated to the 319th Glider Field Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division has stories from scores of the battalion's veterans. Some of these stories detail the veterans' experiences during the Battle of the Bulge. When you think of the Battle of the Bulge, it's the 101st Airborne that comes first
By Todd DePastino Bill Bonnamy's website dedicated to the 319th Glider Field Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division has collected a wide-ranging archive of information related to everywhere, everyone, and everything the 82nd Airborne Division encountered in World War II. One of those persons was the wonderful Pat Fox, who lived in Lubenham, Market Harborough, UK,
by Anna Elizabeth "Betty" Robertson DigbyUsually when I recall bygone days, my mind returns to the peaceful setting of my childhood and all is seen against a backdrop of nature, wooded hills, and an endless sky.Today, however, memory turns to the white marble and granite structures of Washington, DC. I see myself standing on the
Launching of SS Arisan Maru (Wikimedia Commons) by Rona Simmons In 1943, the Japanese began emptying their Philippine prison camps and shipping able-bodied POWs to the home islands or other Japanese-controlled territories. The country’s shipyards, wharves, coal, copper, and nickel mines, steelworks, and road building, and wood cutting operations were suffering a
by Rona Simmons October 24, 1944 was the deadliest day for American service members in World War II. The day’s grim record tally—2,600 KIA—didn’t make headlines. It wasn’t Pearl Harbor, or D-Day, or the Bulge. It was just an otherwise average day of a gargantuan global war. A war that, in the end, had
Written by Bob Von Bargen I want to commend you on the superb presentation regarding “Masters of the Air” that you facilitated on Greatest Generation Live on October 10. I was on a cruise ship in the Caribbean and desperately wanted to add to the conversation regarding the airmanship cited in Harry Crosby’s recount
