Historian Stephen Ambrose says with a little bit of luck, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer could have been elected president of the United States, IF…
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 The 33-star flag (outdated already because Kansas had been admitted as…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…
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 the iconic Saving Private Ryan 20 years ago. Although hailed by some as the “greatest war movie ever made,” I…
Then as now, when Confederate General-in-Chief Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union Commanding General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9,…
For most of history, warriors killed in action were subjected to inglorious, anonymous burials in mass graves … if they were buried at all. Someone…