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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 […]
Valor Friday
Earlier this week, SecDef Hegseth re-renamed Fort Bragg. Instead of naming it after the legendarily bad Confederate General Braxton Bragg, the sprawling facility (one of the world’s largest by population with more than 52,000 military assigned) is now named for a WWII hero of the Battle of the Bulge. Private First Class Roland Bragg earned […]
Valor Friday
I’m once more letting Military Times do my week’s work for me. They posted up an article the other day about the five Americans who have received Britain’s highest honor, the Victoria Cross. For comparison’s sake, here’s the breakdown for foreign born recipients of the Medal of Honor; Out of 3,536 total awards, 568 were […]
Tuskegee Airman, 100, passes
Tuskegee airman Harry Stewart died at his home in Bloomfield Hills, MI on Sunday. Harry T. Stewart Jr. was born July 4, 1924, in Newport News, Virginia. His family moved to New York City two years later. Stewart told the National World War II Memorial he used to walk over to nearby North Beach […]
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