Yesterday (April 21) was the 188th Anniversary of San Jacinto Day, commemorating the Battle of San Jacinto on the shores of what is now the Houston Ship Channel, where a small army of Texians and Tejanos struck a larger force of Mexicans, then under the command of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, a notably incompetent commander and all around bad person. I am ashamed of myself for my delay ..read more

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I have a name (Robert Niederhauser) and a service number (8834196, or could be 8634196). Could someone help find his service record which I think would have been during the Korean war ..read more

I've always wondered there is the picture of Doolittle being presented with his Medal of Honor for his raid on Tokyo. I could't seem to upload the picture but it is well known. Anyway my question is why was his MOH getting pinned to his chest as opposed to being put around his neck with a ribbon? Never seen the MOH presented that way, this is the only picture I've seen were it is being pinned on a chest. Jim ..read more

50+ years ago I used to tag along with my Marine Dad when he would go through people’s old Barns and sheds looking for antiques and one time I found this picture stashed away under a pile of stuff in the back corner of an old man’s barn. The owner saw me wiping the dirt and dust off of its frame’s glass surface and asked me if I wanted it. I took it over to my dad who was rummaging through another part of the barn and I told him the old man said that I could have it. My dad looked at it and... World War I Record of Service Print ..read more

(From today's entry in the "80 Years Ago Today" thread.) Wiki: The "Great Escape": 76 Royal Air Force prisoners of war escape by tunnel "Harry" from Stalag Luft III in Lower Silesia over the night of 24th/5th. Only 3 men (2 Norwegians and a Dutchman) return to the UK; of those recaptured... The Great Escape happened 80 years ago on this date ..read more

I hadn’t heard about the WWII plan to build a North Atlantic, 3,000-ft aircraft carrier of ice and wood, from a material that was called pykerte. Here’s a Wiki article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk#Scale_model I like this clip from the article: “According to some accounts, at the Quebec Conference in 1943 Lord... Project Habakkuk ..read more

Been visiting some Battlefields in EU, anyone recommend some? So far done Ypres, Bastogne and Waterloo but where next ..read more

Today was the funeral of the last Knight of Mannerheim Cross, the highest Finnish military decoration, Tuomas Gerdt (1922-2020). He passed away in November 1, and was buried today in a private funerals with military elements.The funeral was attended by the President of Republic Sauli Niinistö, minister of defence Antti Kaikkonen and commander of Defence Forces Timo Kivinen. His biography, including his... The funeral of the last Knight of Mannerheim Cross ..read more

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