We Remember
Sad end of an era
John “Paddy” Hemingway, 105, the last Battle of Britain pilot, passed away Monday. He joined 85 Squadron flying Hurricanes in December 1938 and went with the squadron to France on the outbreak of war. Based near Lille, the squadron flew sector reconnaissance flights and exercises with the French Air Force during what became known […]
Weekend updates – Texas
Once did a driving trip, hitting up the Buffalo Soldier’s monuments at Ft. Riley and Ft. Leavenworth, stopping at the Negro Leagues Museum and American Jazz museum and hitting the Harry Truman Library in Independence, MO. This may take a little longer…it’s Texas, y’all. Things are further apart. Here’s a few ideas: It’s official – […]
Valor Friday
As we reported the other day, Fort Benning is once more Fort Benning. The large Army facility is no longer named after Confederate Brigadier General Henry Benning, who was a staunch anti-abolitionist and vocal and active participant in the secession cause. It is now named for Sergeant Fred Benning of Nebraska. Fred Benning was born […]
WWII pilot to be laid to rest
1LT Herbert G. Tennyson, a pilot from Wichita, KS will finally be repatriated and laid to rest. In 2017, off the coast of present-day Papua New Guinea, crews were running out of time to find those killed in action in World War II. “We were getting nervous, we didn’t know where this specific plane was,” […]
Valor Friday
BBC (by way of AOL), has a story about a museum appealing for donations to purchase medals related to a grizzly WWII battle I’m ashamed to say I was unfamiliar with. It is the Battle of Geilenkirchen, which was a British-led endeavor, but was the first combat action of the war for the American 84th […]
Army vet, SS agent in ’63, Clint Hill dies
Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who famously leapt onto the trunk of John F. Kennedy’s Lincoln limo in Dallas in 1963, died Friday February 21 at the age of 93. Hill’s heroic scramble to protect Jackie Kennedy in the moments after the president was shot became an indelible image of the 1963 assassination – […]
Valor Friday
I came across this Military.com article about the oldest ever Buffalo Soldier and thought I’d share it. From Military.com; Retired 1st Sgt. Mark Matthews was a soldier who saw the U.S. Army evolve from horse-mounted cavalry to diesel-driven, heavily armored tanks. His life connected three centuries, along with every conflict from the American Frontier Wars […]
Shot Heard Round the World Redux
We all should know what the “Shot Heard Round the World refers to, right? April 19, 1775, just a bit under 250 years ago, colonists unhappy with the redcoats engaged in some lead-slinging that, while not a clear-cut victory for the colonists, started in motion a revolution that, for better or worse, put them on […]
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