Historical
D-Day plus 78 years
It’s that time of year again, where we take a moment to remember D-Day. Not many veterans of that event left with us. What follows is a reprint of my post on it last year. It’s a good day to re-read some of our old articles on the topic of Operation Overlord which commenced that […]
Valor Friday
French Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch, who was Supreme Allied Commander during World War I, once called Albert Roche “The First Soldier of France.” Roche, born in 1895, was of course not the first French soldier, Marshal Foch’s own service predates Roche’s birth by nearly three decades. He was, in Foch’s estimation, the first in […]
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Our own King of Battle pointed out that Luther Story, who received a posthumous Medal of Honor for gallantry in action during the Korean War is about to be returned home and finally, properly laid to rest. We talked about Corporal Story back at the beginning of the month when it was announced his remains […]
Jim Brown, NFL legend and Army vet, dies at age 87
Probably the most famous Cleveland Brown of all time, Jim Brown, passed away yesterday. For nine seasons, from 1957 to 1965, Brown was one of the best players in the NFL. A member of both the College Football and Pro Football Halls of Fame, he was sent to the Pro Bowl every year he played. […]
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Last week I took a look at the final air-to-air dogfights of the European Theater in World War II. Today we’ll move to the other side of the world, only a few months later, for the final engagement in the sky over the Pacific Theater. The summer of 1945 had seen the Allies’ island hopping […]
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In my studies for last week’s article I stumbled across an interesting tidbit. According to several sources, the last dogfight between two aircraft over Europe during World War II was not between two front-line fighters. Rather it was between two liaison planes, with the pilot and observer in one using their sidearms to force an […]
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The scale of the Second World War made the “Great War” seem like a small regional conflict by comparison. Total deaths from the war are impossible to know with any certainty. Estimates of total dead are 85 million. That’s almost four percent of the total world population. In Europe, the deaths from the war were […]
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This week’s article will be a bit different, as I’m working on my next book. I’ve talked recently about several heroes of the World Wars, which is going to be the focus of the next Profiles of Valor. Sorry for the shameless plug. *grin* The World Wars were, as their names would imply, conflicts of […]
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