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…
Lead archaeologist Kristen N. Baker of History Flight, Inc., carefully exposes the remains of Medal of Honor recipient, First Lt. Alexander Bonnyman Jr., in May. (Credits: Clay Bonnyman Evans/History Flight, Inc.) UPDATED 28.09.2015 WWII war hero and Medal of Honor recipient, 1st Lt. Alexander “Sandy” Bonnyman Jr., is one step closer to his final resting…
The new U.S. Navy light aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) in San Francisco Bay (USA) on 15 July 1943. Note that she still carries Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers. Before entering combat the air group would only consist of Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters and TBF Avenger torpedo bombers. NOAA, working with private industry partners and…
First Row: Tech. Sgt. Carlos Steele, Cpl. Jack Ely, Sgt Ferman H. Dixon, Staff Sgt. John F. Ercole, Cpl. E. Newcomb, and Sgt. Ernest J. Diet. Second Row: Pvt. Chris G. Demo, Sgt. Forrest Owens, Cpl. Jim R. Orton, and Cpl. Raymond Matjasic Back Row: Sgt. Roy Olund, Capt. Louis Hayward, Marine Gunner John F….
Col. James “Nick” Rowe without the beard that saved his life. (Credits: US Army) Col. James “Nick” Rowe played a large role in designing the modern training programs for Special Forces soldiers, especially the school that prepares troops to survive being taken captive. Rowe graduated West Point in 1960 and was eventually sent to South Vietnam as…
The headline of the Baltimore Afro-American took note, “Trenton Has Nothing on Salisbury.” And the newspaper boasted, “Trenton, New Jersey, may have her Needham Roberts, but it takes Salisbury, Maryland, to produce a William Butler. Roberts had his comrade, Henry Johnson, to help him in repulsing a raiding party of Germans, but Butler took care…
Our Terraine Prize winner Sanders Marble – Senior Historian at the US Army Office of Medical History – wowed our WW1 Prize Fund judging panel, having ‘identified a major gap in literature on the Western Front’ with Operation Mars 1918. Here, he explains what readers can look forward to in his newly-commissioned book, and how…
Late veteran of the Northumberland (Hussars) Yeomanry and Royal Field Artillery speaks of the unofficial truces, 100 Christmases ago The former soldier from Newcastle, Captain George B Jameson MC, reveals incredulity in the trenches as word spreads Recording to be shared for the first time on the National Army Museum website to commemorate the centenary…
Color footage of various Luftwaffe wrecks taken in 1945 Great color footage has arised from various Luftwaffe plane wrecks such as the He 219, Ju 87, several Fw 190 and Me 109. You can watch the footage on this site. The footage was shot in 1945. Below are several screens from the footage. For those interested, you can…
“The Minstrel Boy” is an Irish patriotic song written by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) who set it to the melody of The Moreen, an old Irish air. It is widely believed that Moore composed the song in remembrance of a number of his friends, whom he met while studying at Trinity College, Dublin and who had participated…
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