We Remember
Nostalgia Post
Popular Mechanics has been running some cool throwback articles – here’s one about a plant they call “Hitler’s Headache”. Not because he had it built and it was problematic, but because we intended to, and successfully built, a plant to jump start the war effort. Make way for Uncle Sam’s giant war baby and Hitler’s […]
Valor Friday
Longtime readers will know I have a penchant for those with interesting names (Galusha Pennypacker for example) and chaplains. Some of those chaplains I’ve highlighted are; Emil Kapaun, MoH John Whitehead, James Hill, and Milton Haney, Civil War Medals of Honor Francis Hall, Civil War MoH, and Joseph O’Callahan, WWII MoH George Rentz, WWII Navy […]
RAF Flight Lieutenant George Dunn,103, passes
Mr. Dunn passed April 28th. He’s someone worth remembering, if nothing else for completing 44 bombing missions over Europe. George Charles Dunn was born in Whitstable, Kent, on September 21 1922. He attended the local school, where he was football captain, and left when he was 14 to work for Pickfords Removals. Inspired by witnessing […]
Valor Friday
A few months back I highlighted the valor of US Army Captain Willibald Bianchi. At the time it was announced he was returning home after 80 years of being missing after being killed in World War II. He’s finally being laid to rest in his home state of Minnesota tomorrow, if you’re near New Ulm. […]
Better Late Than Never
Today’s lead is SGT Celestina Chavez, a 19 year old who was killed by enemy soldiers in Korea near the Choisin Reservoir. Assigned to the 15th Anti-Aircraft Artillery, Automatic Weapons Battalion, 7th Infantry Division, the statement from the DPMAA says Chavez was wounded while defending his position in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. He […]
Valor Friday
Of the POWs held by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War, there are many recognizable names among the 591 men who survived prolonged captivity to return home. Virtually all of them returned home to promotions (sometimes multiple grades) and received medals (most of them several). Among the survivors, Jeremiah Denton and John McCain became […]
Hope some one heard
Today we are talking about Marvin “Mark” Sloan, a vet who passed on April 3 at the age of 94 in St. Peters, MO. My memory tells me St. Peters is bit west of St. Louis – I recall replacing a VW generator there by the side of the road several decades back. Sloan, […]
BG Lew Harned passes at age 101
Some of you probably passed through General Harned’s command without realizing it – or the remarkable longevity of his service. Born in 1924, he originally tried to join up in 1942, but was classified 4-F due to nearsightedness. He found another route to the war through the American Field Service, a civilian volunteer corps that […]
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