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 The 33-star flag (outdated already because Kansas had been admitted as…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…
Film legend Steven Spielberg released Saving Private Ryan 20 years ago, and it has since been hailed by some as the “greatest war movie ever…
Film legend Steven Spielberg released the iconic Saving Private Ryan 20 years ago. Although hailed by some as the “greatest war movie ever made,” I…
Everyone who has ever seen a Star Trek or Star Wars movie knows future wars will be fought in space. President Trump apparently has seen…