Gathering of Eagles
Jim “Peewee” Martin Takes One More Jump Into Normandy
WWII 101st Airborne paratrooper Jim “Peewee” Martin makes a repeat jump into Normandy at the tender age of 93. You can either sit on it and wither away to nothing, or you can be like Peewee here. It ain’t over ’til he says it’s over. Granted, it was done in 2014 on the 70th anniversary […]
The D-Day Weatherman
The 75th anniversary of the landings on Normandy’s beaches is coming up. There are news videos everywhere about it. A group of soldiers and a WWII Army nurse made the trip this year to visit the place and get the beach sand souvenirs. If you ever go there and look at the sand closely, you’ll […]
B-17s
From The Other Whitey comes this collection of photos of B-17s, some of which have been damaged so badly per these photographs that they could not possibly continue to function. Here’s the information he supplied as their histories: The photo titled “B-17 loss 3” is, according to my research, 42-31333 Wee Willie of the 91st Bombardment Group […]
We Few… We Happy Few…
While the Band of Brothers speech from Henry VI used to always be posted on St. Crispin’s Day, the date was unintentionally missed this year. Maybe it’s more appropriate to place that speech here today, on the 100th anniversary of the ending of World War I. It is therefore herewith provided, and while at the […]
The Truth Is Out There – Pt. II
On September 9, I wrote an article about the 24th MEU being deployed to engage in a joint exercise with other allies in Norway. https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2018/09/06/24th-marine-expeditionary-unit-will-head-to-norway-to-join-40000-troops-strong-nato-exercise/ Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, are slated to participate in one of the largest NATO exercises later this fall hosted by Norway, according to Marine officials. Yesterday, I […]
An Anniversary – A Gathering Of Eagles
OWB posted this elsewhere. OWB also has a better way with words than I and handled security for the event, while I handled communications. — Ten years ago this morning a group of patriots, mostly veterans, gathered in Washington DC to counter a disgusting assembly of lefty scum as they met at the Wall to […]
Two Warriors Pass to Valhalla
There were several notices in the weekend paper regarding the passing of World War II veterans. Some of the text was simply written as ‘joined the Army’ or ‘served his country’. A few had a little more detail, so this is for two of them. Dave Hardin is trying to get more info on a […]
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