WWII
Valor Friday
With the recent passing of the 81st anniversary of the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, word came out about an award upgrade for one of the valiant men who dropped behind enemy lines on that fateful morning. William D Owens, who left the service as a staff sergeant, is seeing a Bronze Star Medal be upgraded […]
Valor Friday
Recently, the keel for a guided missile destroyer was laid down. This future US Navy ship is being named USS Quentin Walsh. DDG-132 is named not for a US Navy hero, but rather a Coastie. Though admittedly, the US Coast Guard was under the Navy Department at the time of his particular noteworthy heroics, as […]
Valor Friday
Castle Itter in Austria was the site of what’s been described as the strangest battle in all of World War II. The setting for today’s story is a small castle in Tyrol, Austria. The site dates back to the 13th Century as a fortress of some sort. As castles were, it was the administrative center […]
Valor Friday
Today’s article will feature two men. Nicholas Minue and Rodger Young both earned the Medal of Honor for their actions during World War II. Both men received that award posthumously, having died in their final act of gallantry. They also both gave up NCO rank so that they could go to war and fight. Minue […]
Valor Friday
This week’s subject comes to us by way of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas; Clarence Byrle Craft, a native of California, received the Medal of Honor for his actions on Hen Hill during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. He moved to Arkansas after World War II and died in Fayetteville (Washington County). Clarence B. Craft […]
Thursday tidbits
The White House says President Trump has backed off renaming Veteran’s Day to “Victory Day for World War I” . While technically, at least historically speaking, he was correct – the holiday started out as Armistice Day for the cease-fire ending at the 11th minute of the 11th hour on November 11, 1918 – the […]
Valor Friday
I’ve several times talked about men and women of valor who have received decorations from allied governments. Sometimes, as in the case of recipients of the top valor awards (such as a Medal of Honor or the Victoria Cross), these foreign decorations are nearly automatic. For example, virtually every Medal of Honor recipient in the […]
Three more ID’ed
Three more airmen from WWII have been identified, after they were lost on a low-level bombing raid over Burma. (Myanmar for you kids.) U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Charles W. McCook, 23, U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Henry J. Carlin, 27, and U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. Sidney Burke, 22, were carrying […]
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