I read a story in a memoir that mentions an unnamed African American general during World War II. I don't imagine there were many of those and...
I just finished reading a book that made several references to the Bismark and Tirpitz firing their main battery of 15" guns at aircraft. I...
Excellent. Completely coincidentally I was recently researching radio beacons. Always nice when things tie together like that.
I don't know the change is actually enough to win the war for Germany, but I think it's still a better strategy. I also don't think the British...
A Coast Guard service record I found the individual was assigned for a time to "Unit 70" which seems to have been based out of Boston, but...
Better idea: instead of building any battleships OR aircraft carriers, all those resources should have instead been spent on more and better...
In January 1942, after finishing his business in the Arcadia Conference, Winston Churchill took a short vacation at a beachfront home of Edward...
Can anyone recommend a researcher in the St. Louis area who will make copies of personnel files for less than the NARA MPRC charges? Many...
Eureka! U-109, 5th patrol - http://uboatarchive.net/KTB109-5.htm Mentions passing the lighthouse on 5 May 1942 while trailing a tanker. Also...
I'll check with them - thanks! UPDATE: They have it: http://uboatarchive.net/KTB504-2.htm No mention of the Jupiter Lighthouse (they do mention...
"...U-504 commander Fritz Poske noted in German in his war diary, later translated by historians." -Eliot Kleinberg, "War in Paradise: Stories of...
Thank you for those links. Regarding the PBC page: I work in the last building pictured at the bottom of that page, which is the last building...
This photo comes from my now deceased great uncle who served in Europe, I believe as a Chaplain's Assistant: [ATTACH] The note on the back only...
It's a lovely state that I want to go back and see more of, although the mountain roads sometimes make me uneasy when driving. My earliest years...
1. Your Name: Josh. My name is a reference to the USS West Virginia (BB-48). While I did not have any known relatives serving on that ship, the...
