It’s opening Friday of March Madness, but still time for the Weekly History Wrap Up. This one’s hitting a little too close to home. Former employees of the old Joslyn Manufacturing plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, are being sought out regarding their exposure to radiation. Workers extruded uranium billets into rods for the Manhattan Project [...]
Returning to the “History of 741st Tank Battalion, for months of June and July 1944,” we pick up the action where we left off on Tuesday, with the surviving tanks of the 741st hitting bloody Omaha Beach on D-Day. “…The DD tanks which succeeded in reaching the shore immediately opened fire on the entrenched enemy [...]
Danny Weber served in the Vietnam War with the 13th Combat Aviation Battalion. In this Letters From War Wednesday, we feature a short note from Weber to his father, Jack, back home. In October 1967, Weber turned 20 and set foot in Vietnam. “I thought I would write and let you know we made it [...]
I recently came across an interesting “History of the 741st Tank Battalion, for the months of June and July 1944″–typed pages stapled together and stamped “SECRET.” The 741st was attached to the Big Red One for the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach – Normandy, France. Among other weaponry the 741st employed the truly unique Sherman [...]
In this edition of the 90th Infantry Division Pic of the Week, we return to Hof, Germany.
TGIF, and time for the Weekly History Wrap Up. A conservation group is in negotiations with a local land developer in York, Pennsylvania, attempting to save the site of Camp Security, a Revolutionary War prison camp. A Massachusetts-made Civil War cannon, first confiscated by Confederates, then later liberated by the Union army at the Battle [...]
This week, we received a comment from Theresa, daughter of retired Army sergeant, Cecil E. Toole. Her welcome question was in response to a 90th Infantry Division Pic of the Week posting on the Saar River crossing at Dillingen, Germany. She wrote, “I would like to know if there are any picture books of this [...]
Happy Hump Day! Time for Letters From War Wednesday! Today we feature a note home, dated September 1943, from 1st Sergeant Paul Prickett, stationed at Camp Sutton, North Carolina. “I have been letting my end of the rope sag in this correspondence business, so I thought it better to ‘take up some of the slack.’ [...]
From time to time we feature a reoccurring theme on our old friend, 90th Infantry Division soldier and BOOTPRINTS author, Hobert Winebrenner, dubbed “Uncommonly Hobert.” I just came across this unique photograph of Winebrenner boarding a train in Albion, departing for the Army. Makes you think of the innocent young man stepping onto that train [...]
This edition of the 90th Infantry Division Pic of the Week takes us to Longvilly, Belgium, on the outskirts of Bastogne, and to an all too familiar sight–the carnage and destruction left behind following the Battle of the Bulge.