Blogs
Blog No. 40 – February 21, 2026 – The Life of a young Kamikaze Pilot
Feb. 21, 1945: USS Bismarck Sea CVE-95 as it was seen burning after being hit by Kamikaze aircraft off Iwo Jima – it was the final mass...
Blog No. 40 – December 31, 2025
The 1944-1945 Celebration was the 41st New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, New York and took place on Sunday, December 31st, 19...
Blog No. 39 – December 7, 2025
While the “Christmas Truce” of 1914 has achieved legendary status in the history of World War I, there has been little coverage of similar events involving American troops.
Blog No. 38 – November 5, 2025
Drum, Drummers, DrumbeatsIt was just the other day – well, a couple months and 81 years ago, on August 29, 1944, when 15,000 American t...
Blog No. 37 – October 8, 2025
Turns out, this humble bed has been doing double duty for centuries -- and not just in homes.
Blog No. 36 – September 1, 2025
The sound of the Drummer’s beatThe Castiles – Brucebase Wiki
July 1 – August 4, 1965
As their oath will tell you, the Official Co...
Blog No. 35 – August 9, 2025
BalloonsDo you think it can carry us?
Three of the military men in my book, The World War II Chain Letter Gang, worked on the home f...
Blog No. 34 – July 10, 2025
Naro to Neptune
by Thomas Yaccarino
A note from Lynne: Yes, there is a connection amongst the members of the Wolverines inThe WWI...
Blog No. 33 – June 25, 2025
Stained glass window memorial, commemorating the 3rd Air Division, inside the church of St Andrew and St Patrick, Elveden, Suffolk. Sou...
Blog No. 32 – June 12, 2025
160,000 Allied troops landed
in Normandy
June 6th, 1944 (Public Domain)On June 12, 1944, and at the bewitching hour of midnight...
Blog No. 31 – May 27, 2025
Hedy Lamarr is often called “the most beautiful woman in the world.” At 26 years old, she was a big star in Hollywood. But in September...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Blog No. 22 – February 1, 2025
Operation FLINTLOCK: Invasion of the Marshall Islands, January-February 1944Operation Flintlock, January-February 1944. Fourth Marine D...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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