WWII
Artillery Get Some
Happy Pi Day to all! Seems American artillery just keeps getting better and better. Most recently? Talk about an unusual kill… 3rd Battalion, 27th Field Artillery, 18th Field Artillery Brigade – sank a submarine. U.S. forces have struck with Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) short-range ballistic missiles. ATACMS cannot hit moving targets, so the […]
Valor Friday
Here’s one of the most Marine-looking Marines to ever Marine. Kenneth Walsh was the #4 top scoring Marine fighter ace of World War II. Here’s how he earned that shiny blue ribbon that outranks all the others. From Military Times; World War II in the Pacific produced a remarkable 10 fighter pilots of the United […]
Three MoHs awarded today
President Trump awarded three Medals of Honor this morning. This is in addition to the two at last week’s State of the Union. Today’s recipients include (all from the Army); Master Sergeant Roddie Edmunds – A posthumous award. This is the rare MoH that isn’t an upgrade from a previous award. Edmunds’ refusal to turn […]
Naval disaster
Maybe you Navy guys, or perhaps Commissioner Wretched, could tell us what the worst naval disaster in history was? I’m going to set a body count standard – if you try to classify by cargo worth, etc. you can rabbit-hole for hours (The “White Ship” which sank in 1120, taking with it the legitimate heir […]
Valor Friday
Some good news. Master Sergeant Rodrick “Roddie” Edmonds will be receiving a posthumous Medal of Honor for his heroism in the face of the Nazis. It’s been almost five years since I wrote up the story of Edmonds. Click through for the full story, but I’ll try to summarize. Edmonds quickly rose the ranks, and […]
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 […]
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