WWII
A New Name You Should know
Well, I got sandbagged twice while waiting for the wife to get home from church. I like to think I am fairly savvy on Holocaust stuff, and I despise Fakebook, yet I read a post there that made me go “whoa” and start looking to see if there was any historical truth – and there […]
Valor Friday
Time for a wee bit of good news for Minnesota. It’s been a rough couple of weeks months years for the state. I spoke about Captain Willibald Bianchi a few months back when it was announced that his remains had been identified and were coming back home. Bianchi you might recall received the Medal of […]
WWII vet identified
This one is a little different than the norm. Meet Luis Gilberto Robledo, originally hailing from El Paso. Robledo’s skeletal remains were discovered close to a SuperAmerica gas station in Albert Lea off Interstate 90 in April 2015. At the time, local detectives thought the cause of death was suspicious. According to the DNA […]
Operation Cowboy
Military.com did a pretty interesting article on the real story of Operation Cowboy. Doesn’t sound familiar? To many of a certain age, “The Miracle of the White Stallions” was an entertaining Disney movie – like anything they did then, a but sanitized, but for Disney, not far from the real story. Let’s open with […]
Valor Friday
During World War II, Ireland remained neutral. This has become a hallmark of Irish foreign policy since they split from Great Britain. Some Irishmen, both from Ireland proper and Northern Ireland (which remains part of the United Kingdom) joined the British military to fight in the war. Today’s story isn’t about any of those men. […]
Ira Schab, Pearl Harbor survivor, passes
Ira Schab, 105: originally a tuba player in the USS Dobbin’s band, died Saturday. The 21-year old (born July 4, 1920) Mr. Schab expected a quiet Sunday morning. One of his two younger brothers, assigned to a nearby Naval radio station, was coming to visit. Schab had just showered and donned a clean uniform when […]
Navy successfully completes Arizona Project
A bit late for December 7. The Navy has been working on a project to extend the lifespan of the USS Arizona Monument. The Navy, in coordination with the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, successfully completed the removal of significant portions of two World War II-era mooring platforms from the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, […]
Two Returned Home
Long Wait Finally Over: World War II Airman Returns Home Military.com | By Kevin Damask Bonnie McClure was just a young girl when her uncle, Clifford Keeney, an Army Airman fighting in World War II, was shot down in Germany while on a mission in 1944. Keeney was listed as killed in action, and he […]
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