Scirè, The Italian Royal Navy Submarine
The Scirè was a small Italian coastal submarine that entered service in April 1938. Its name commemorates an Italian victory in Ethiopia in March 1936.…
Engineering Hitler’s Downfall
You may have noticed that Christmas is coming and you might be wondering what to get for that difficult so-and-so who usually responds with “nothing”…
‘Erase the distinctions’ – Mid-Missouri soldier/physician inspired character in WWII-era comic strip
In decades past, the Enloe family of mid-Missouri produced a respected line of physicians and dentists. Several of them established a legacy while serving in…
Return to Sea – Missouri Veteran Returns to Naval Service in the Months After Pearl Harbor
Spending the latter years of the Great Depression serving in the U.S. Navy, Fred Hoechst Jr. returned to St. Louis following his discharge in March…
Battlefield Histories From Casemate are The Best of Their kind Around Today
Simon Forty is a prolific writer, to say the least. He has built a solid reputation for accuracy and passion for his subject matter and…
PART 1 – The search for Amelia – Missouri veteran served aboard ship that searched for famed 1930s aviator
Coming of age in a community of St. Louis referred to as the “Patch,” Fred Hoechst Jr. graduated from high school only to experience the…
How did Brits use allotments and ‘grow your own’ to survive two World Wars?
In September 2018, the world marked 79 years since the beginning of the Second World War — a conflict that lasted six years, divided the…
PBY Catalina Operations Over The SW Pacific During & After WWII
In this Dakota Hunter Blog, you can read about the spectacular Military career of the Consolidated PBY Catalina in the SE Pacific from 1942 until…
The Doolittle Raiders – Sets Out to Tell Us Something of The Lives of The Men
I’ve been sent this really useful book by George Nolta which gives us biographies of the aircrew who took part in the legendary Doolittle Raid…
SHAKY GROUND – Traces of the Great War at the Ypres Salient
This intriguing book begins with a tragedy, in 1979, when the author’s cousin dies from injuries caused from playing with an unexploded shell. Losing the…
Maggots in the Biscuits & Beef so Bad it was Given a Funeral: Military Rations Throughout Time
Hard Tack Although recorded uses of “Bisket” or “hard tack” (literally meaning hard food) date to the Roman Legions and Richard I’s Crusades, it…
The Dakota Hunter: “Spooky”AC-47 In A Combat Role, 80 Years After The DC-3’s Maiden Flight
See photos of World’s only Veteran Aircraft of 3 wars, built 75 years ago, and still in active military service. The AC-47 T Fantasma, using…