Veterans From All-Black Aviation Unit On How They Overcame Racial Bias During WW2
Charles McGee was an accomplished World War II fighter pilot and Army Captain. Ten years later, he was unable to get a job as a…
American WWII Veteran’s Family Receives His Medals 70 After His Heroic Deeds
Claude Walker joined the US Army in 1941 with the world embroiled in World War II. He started with the basic training at Camp Upton…
12th Armored Division Memorial Museum Celebrates 15th Anniversary
The path to the 15th anniversary of the 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum is what William Lenches calls “a long, strange trip.” Lenches is the…
Reconditioned American B-29 Bomber ‘Doc’ Makes A Full One-Hour Test Flight
Besides the small problem with a landing gear motor the second flight of ‘Doc,’ a Second World War B-29 bomber, finished its second flight recently…
Veteran Served As Medic in Post-WWII Germany
John Fulenwider was an Army medic after World War II. Although he had little actual training in medicine, it was his task to care for…
One Of The Last Survivors of the Pearl Harbor Attack on USS Arizona Has Died
One of the last survivors of the USS Arizona attack has died at age 94. Raymond Haerry died Sept. 27 in West Warwick, R.I. Haerry…
“A Little Man, Like Charlie Chaplin” – British Girl Guides Visiting Adolf Hitler In The Eagle’s Nest
An unknown girl wrote that Hitler had a toothbrush mustache, he was wonderful with children and had a charming smile. The description comes from a Girl…
Hitler Considered Occupying The Small English Isle of Wight in WWII – It Could Have Changed History
Dr. Robert Forczyk, a military historian, analyzed German military records and found that Adolf Hitler had suggested the Nazis invade the Isle of Wight. The…
Making First World War Aviator Kiffin Yates Rockwell An American Hero
Historian Marc McClure intends to make an American First World War aviator, Kiffin Yates Rockwell, as well known in the U.S. as he is in…
Civil War Cannons Retrieved From The Great Pee Dee River, South Carolina
William Lockridge is part of a team that raised three Civil War cannons from the Great Pee Dee River. “I had three children, and it’s…
In 3-D: The Horror of Auschwitz in Virtual Reality Helps In Trials of WW2 War Criminals
Little did the developers of 3-D virtual reality think their technology would be instrumental in seeing justice meted out to Nazi war criminals, specifically those…
The Lucky American WWII Seaman Who Survived Two Ship Sinkings
Walter “Irby” West, Jr., didn’t expect to be abandoning his ship in the Pacific during World War II just 10 months after surviving a sinking…