The breakout of the war shatters the world of a young student, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, forcing her to enlist in the army in 1941. The maiden turns out to be a natural-born sniper, her impressive skill and prowess make her stand out among men and women alike. Seeing Pavlichenko as a tangible threat, the German High…
Eldridge Williams On Feb. 13, the Miami-Dade Aviation Department honored “not only members of the Greatest Generation” but “the Greatest Generation Plus.” Three South Florida Tuskegee Airmen of the 26 surviving members of the first all-black military flying unit that was formed in 1941 were honored that day at Miami International Airport, reports the Miami Herald….
Dan Hartigan proudly wearing his medals. The Calgary Police Service is seeking public assistance related to the theft of a number of war medals and other personal property from a home in northwest Calgary. The medals belonged to Sgt. Daniel Hartigan, who parachuted into Normandy ahead of the Allied D-Day invasion of 1944 while part of…
Soldiers from the 4th Maine Infantry Regiment inflate the balloon “Intrepid” before the Battle of Fair Oaks, Va. in late May 1862. (Library of Congress Photo) On July 12, 1849, the Austrian Navy ship Vulcano launched a manned hot air balloon in order to drop bombs on Venice, the attempt failing due to contrary winds….
President Barack Obama greets the nation’s oldest living veteran, Emma Didlake, in the Oval Office, July 17, 2015. (Credits: Pete Souza / White House) The nation’s oldest known living veteran, Emma Didlake, died Sunday August 16, 2015, at the age of 110. Just a few weeks earlier she had a meeting with the U.S. President…
Battleship Roma (‘Corazzata Roma’) was the fourth Vittorio Veneto-class battleship of Italy’s Regia Marina (Royal Navy). As Roma was laid down almost four years after the first two ships of the class (Impero and Vittorio Veneto), some improvements were made to the design, which included an additional freeboard being added to the bow. Roma was commissioned on 14 June…
The 931st Air Refueling Group mourns the loss of a true patriot and friend, Mr. Adrian Marlin, who passed away earlier this week. Marlin enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1943 and served as a tail gunner on a B-17 flying fortress during the Allied offensive over Germany in WWII. In all, Marlin completed…
Nestled in one man’s back garden, in Newbury/ Ohio, is this collection of more than 30 military jets – salvaged by Walter Soplata over a 50-year period. He bought the planes amid fears they would be dismantled and destroyed, and, upon his death in 2010, his relatives kept his prestigious collection a secret so that scrappers wouldn’t…
Oskar Gröning in uniform as an SS-Rottenführer. 94 year old Oskar Gröning, a former Auschwitz death camp guard, has been convicted by a German court for his role in the killing of 300,000 Jewish people and was sentenced to four years in jail. The German court concluded he was an accessory in the killings. Oskar Gröning,…
Sen. John McCain and Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Larry O. Spencer congratulate 2nd Lt. John Pedevillano, a WWII Army Air Corps B-17 bombardier, during a ceremony in his honor, in Washington, D.C., July 7, 2015. McCain and Spencer presented Pedevillano with the Presidential Unit Citation with one oak leaf cluster. He is…
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