20
May
Blog No. 30 – May 19, 2025
André Trocmé
Pastor André Trocmé c. 1941
“These people came here for help and for shelter. I am their shepherd, and a shepherd do...
01
May
Blog No. 29 – May 1, 2025
The First Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, London, 1 May 1944Mackenzie King, Jan Smuts, Winston Churchill, Peter Fraser, and Jo...
25
Apr
Blog No. 28 – April 25, 2025
WWII’s First Combat Air Rescue
The helicopter with which Harman
made the first combat rescue,
25 April 1944. (U.S. Air Force)
On th...
17
Apr
Blog No. 27 – April 16, 2025
A gold bar worth $27,700 sailed a mile through the air and landed on a bungalow veranda.The 1944 Bombay explosion/ Railway archivesThe ...
01
Apr
Blog No. 26 – April 1, 2025
Boeing B-29 SuperfortressThe Boeing B-29 Superfortress was an American four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing an...
08
Mar
Blog # 25 – March 7, 2025
During World War II, there were approximately 12,000 blue-eyed, blond children who were kidnapped by the Nazis. These children became p...
17
Feb
Blog No. 24 – February 17-18, 1944
Operation Catchpole and Operation HailstoneOperation Catchpole, February 1944. U.S. Marines and Coast Guardsmen proudly display a Japa...
10
Feb
Blog No. 23 – February 8, 2025
The Lima Maru was built in 1920 by the Mitsubishi Zosen Kaisha in Nagasaki for the Nippon Yusen shipping company.
IJA Transport LIMA...
30
Jan
Blog No. 22 – February 1, 2025
Operation FLINTLOCK: Invasion of the Marshall Islands, January-February 1944Operation Flintlock, January-February 1944. Fourth Marine D...
14
Jan
Blog No. 21 a – January 12, 2025
85 Years Ago—Jan. 12, 1940: US Interior Department motorship North Star reaches Bay of Whales, Antarctica, to establish West Base for e...
16
Jan
Blog No. 21 – January 12, 2025
TBM-1C Avengers of Torpedo Squadron 4 from carrier USS Essex crossing the Indochinese coast on their way to bomb shipping at Saigon, 12...
31
Dec
Blog No. 20 – December 31, 2024
Blog No. 20 – December 31, 2024
Featured Image: An illustration from the December 31, 1943 edition of the Harrisburg TelegraphAuthor...
24
Dec
Blog No. 19 – December 22, 2024
December 25, 1944,
Ardennes Forest, Battle of the Bulge
On December 25, 1944, our soldiers were in the midst of the Battle of the B...
13
Dec
Blog No. 18 – December 11 and 12, 2024
On December 11, 1941, American chargé d'affaires Leland B. Morris, the highest ranking American diplomat in Germany, was summoned to Fo...
29
Nov
Blog No. 17 – November 29, 2024
USS Archerfish (SS/AGSS-311) was a Balao-class submarine. She was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the archerfi...
18
Nov
Blog No. 16 – November 18, 2024
The Liege Hospital is Bombed
(Footsteps Research, Public Domain)
The Liege Hospital is the 15th General Hospital in Liege, Belgium. I...
15
Nov
Blog No. 15 – November 8, 2024
Torch Operation, North Africa 1942
On November 8, 1942, Allied forces were led by the United States and the United Kingdom in launchin...
31
Oct
Blog No.14 – November 1, 2024
Blog No.14 – November 1, 2024
Yankees or the Dodgers?
Air Force Sgt. Joe DiMaggio and Navy Chief Specialist Harold "Pee Wee" Reese po...
23
Oct
Blog #13 – October 20, 2024
The other morning there was no internet service, just when I wanted to write the next blog, so I decided to “wing it.” There was no sub...
11
Oct
Blog No. 12 – October 12, 2024
U.S. War Letters – What to do with Them!
WWII letters from an old auction on eBay
Never but really ever in my 75 years (a few yea...
27
Sep
Blog No. 11 September 27, 2024
Cindy’s Mother’s Story
as told by Paul (last name withheld)
to and then written by Lynne T. Attardi
Stanislawa Letkowski nee S...
24
Sep
Blog No. 10 September 22, 2024
Part of Operation Overlord, Battle of Normandy
A US M18 Hellcat of the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion in the streets of Brest in Sep...
12
Sep
Blog No. 9 September 12, 2024
Source: National Archives
Allied tanks in the German city of Koblenz.
(Still from Universal News)
Quoting from the National Archives...
03
Sep
Blog No. 8 September 2, 2024
The Phony War
That someone called a war by this name I found intriguing, so I researched it and thought it might be an interesting blo...
28
Aug
Blog No. 7 August 28, 2024
“ I don’t mind saying that I am sick of the whole mess....”
World War II area photograph of US Marine Corps (USMC) Major (MAJ), John...
26
Aug
Blog No. 1 a – August 22, 2024
UDT on D-Day (continued)
The Naval Combat Demolition Units participated in the amphibious landings in the south of France, Operation...
20
Aug
Blog # 6, August 20, 2024
…for six cents per volume
Sailor in his bunk
aboard USS Capelin
in WWII
I began to write about what the people on the Homefront...
13
Aug
Blog # 5, August 12, 2024
Laying the pipeline: A 'Conundrum' being moved into position into a specially constructed dock in preparation for the winding on of the...
08
Aug
Blog No. 4 – August 9, 2024
If you want to know what is the “longest-running public service announcement campaign” in our history, just look at this poster! And wh...
31
Jul
Blog No. 3 – July 31, 2024
80 years ago? July 31st, 1944
Hooray! At last. My webpage is finally complete – well, except for the ability to request addresses of t...
21
Jun
Blog No. 2, June 21, 2024
Wasn’t it fun as a child to make up codes when writing to your friends at school or even at home when you wanted to say something in se...
20
Jun
Blog No. 1 June 20 2024
My blog builder asked me for a sample blog. I had no idea what my first blog was going to entail; did I need to have him ask for a sample one