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Weekend Wanderings, mid-July 2011
One of today’s Freshly Pressed blogs also mentions the use of iPads in learning. I was especially interested at the mention of using them to help out in galleries. I found a few other WWII related blog...
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2LT Roy Gates turns 90
2LT Roy Gates must have gotten around a lot as a young man, even before he helped defeat the Germans in World War II. He was born in New York, enlisted in the Army in Texas and is now retired in...
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Weekend Wanderings, Thanksgiving 2011
I haven’t posted a set of Wanderings of late, but have been accumulating some interesting links. Hopefully, you didn’t over-eat on Thanksgiving or, if you are not a celebrant, on a lovely fall weekend....
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Dogtags Finding Their Way Home
Two stories of lost dogtags catching up with veterans popped into my email recently. Private Kent Potter lost his dogtag in France during World War I. Determined Frenchmen made sure that it reached his...
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Honor Flight Cheered at National Airport
Yesterday, at National Airport, an Honor Flight of World War II veterans landed and, as Chris Muller notes, they got a marvelous welcome to Washington. Headed into Memorial Day weekend, it’s good to be...
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Training Bulletin 180
Consistent with the thesis that high rates of fire waste ammunition, the Signal Corps produced a short film to reassure late war replacements that German weapons were inherently inaccurate. Since some...
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Dig WW2 - Behind The Scenes Photos
Reblogged from Out of Battle: Dig WW2 Photos, a set on Flickr. Last year I worked as the Historical Consultant for Dig WW2, made for BBC NI by 360Production. The series in some ways grew out of...
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Normandy in June
This year, for the first time, I ache not to be in Normandy on the Anniversary of D-Day. Facebook and a collection of friends and acquaintances who share my obsession with the history have allowed me...
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Dash and Elan
Reblogged from Bring the heat, Bring the Stupid: There was a time, before socialism became the culture of Great Britain, when troops loyal to the Crown were among the most intrepid in the world, and...
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Veterans of Iwo Jima reunited
I’ve had the privilege of joining the veterans of Iwo Jima at the reunion at the Sheraton Pentagon City where we hold our Dragoon and Colmar events. It’s been a wonderful event and I expect to attend...
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GI Film Festival Returns to Town
Last year, my wife, my mother-in-law and I all attended parts of the GI Film Festival here in DC. The 2013 version runs 6-12 May. Looking over the films, there are several I’ll be interested in seeing...
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Operation Dragoon 2013
I just received my August copy of America in WWII and our event is listed this time! I had been able to get in contact with them via Facebook and was able to email them the critical info before press...
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2014 Iwo Jima Association of America Reunion
Just wanted to get the word out that the 2014 reunion of the Iwo Jima Association of America will be held 13-16 February at the Sheraton Pentagon City, where we hold the Operation Dragoon and Colmar...
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Program for 2013 Colmar Pocket Commemoration and Seminar
69 years after the vicious fighting in eastern France, Outpost Europe of the Society of the Third Infantry Division and the Embassy of France will again host a Battle of the Colmar Pocket Commemoration...
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Uncle in the 15th
A few years ago, I’d joined the Society of the 3rd Infantry Division after meeting and helping CPT Monika Stoy and LTC Tim Stoy with the Operation Dragoon and Colmar Pocket...
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Closure for grandpa, 70 years later
Since my wife and I have an abiding love for France, I read a number of blogs about France. Sometimes, it’s just an entry or two in a blog about something else entirely, but mostly, it’s blogs by...
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10 percent off D-Day Issue
One of my favorite magazines, America in WWII, has offered 10% off their special D-Day issue if you order before February 10th. It’s a hundred pages of articles, photos, maps and other goodies to pique...
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Military Classics Seminar Series
Last Tuesday, I attended a seminar session that’s part of the Military Classics Seminar series. The MCS is now in it’s 57th year and, shockingly, this is the first I’ve heard of it. They meet on the...
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Tora, Tora, Tora in Carlisle!
February shapes up to be an interesting month for those interested in WWII history. The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC) continues the Strategic Art Film Program with a viewing, dinner...
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Veterans Panel: Iwo Jima 70th Anniversary
Touring the National Museum of the Marine Corps with veterans of the Battle of Iwo Jima is an amazing privilege. While one can often find Iwo Jima veteran Frank Matthews in the museum working as a...
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