In 1992, I sat down with two Bataan Death March survivors in a VFW hall in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. What I remember more than anything else was how...
Remi DeLouche, a B-25 co-pilot, was shot down over Italy in 1943 and managed to be captured by the Italians, freed and then captured by the...
In 2002, I sat down with Charles Hair, who commanded the 3rd Army's 88th Engineer Heavy Ponton Battalion. He had some interesting stories,...
You're welcome. It's a very new site (less than two weeks old) that features individual veterans' narratives about their experiences in the war....
I couldn't agree more. The series was true to the book, and the book was true to the men.
In 1992, Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment was known to few outside its members immediate families. But historian Stephen...
I believe you are correct on all counts.
I don't pretend to speak from experience about either extreme. The tropics appear to breed a larger variety of diseases and fungi than cold...
John Ferguson would go on to regional fame as the play-by-play broadcaster for LSU football in parts of the '50s through early '80s, but before...
There were a lot of really awful places to be in the war, and this mission had to be one of the worst.
I posted this link in General Discussion before I discovered the CBI section. (I'm new here.) He had some interesting recollections....
Dr. Melvin Schudmak was an Army doctor stationed stateside when he was called in to the Adjutant General’s Office in Washington, D.C., in the fall...