Veterans Day is more than free food, although that’s nice. It’s a time to pause and remember the military veterans in your family who sacrificed…
These prewar Polish soldiers look tough, and they fought bravely but were over matched by tactics and modern weapons when the Germans invaded on Sept.…
Died – 54, 246 Wounded – 103,284 MIAs – 8,177 I haven’t written much about the Korean War so it’s time to correct that oversight.…
The excellent Utah Beach museum in Normandy depicts figures of American soldiers exiting a Higgins boat, or officially a LCVP for Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel.…
My son Glenn Peterson, his wife Amanda, and their two daughters Jane and Anne took me to the newly renovated St. Louis Soldiers Memorial. The…
Visitors to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor can help raise a giant American flag. The 33-star flag (outdated already because Kansas had been admitted as…
The Nazi’s love of concrete can still be seen today as in these remnants from the Atlantic Wall. The Atlantic Wall was history’s largest fortification…
The Japanese destroyed most of the photographs of their prized WW II mega-battleship. This one shows Yamato on its sea trials in 1941 where it…
China and the United States seem to be friendly rivals now (frenemies?), but Dr. Graham Allison’s book explores how the competition could escalate to a…
It was 5 a.m., Paris time, Nov. 11, 1918. Sunrise was still nearly three hours away. A group of war-weary or desperate British, French and…