K Rations Included Chewing Gum for Several Reasons
As most military rations are barely discernible as food, the addition of the gum provided a highly desirable element of flavor. An army marches on…
Filtering War: Kleenex Fights the Horrors of Gas Warfare
Early British Hypo helmets offered limited but vital protection once the mask was dipped in chemicals to filter the gas. Kleenex is one of those…
Saluting a Surrender: How Guam Fell in Just 13 Shots
Orders in hand, Glass steamed on for Guam and whatever resistance the Spanish offered. In 1898, the United States went to war against the ailing…
Counting Arrows: How the Persian Empire Counted Its Dead
In an era before dog tags or modern military bureaucracy, ancient and medieval powers needed to get creative in how they kept track of their…
A New Pattern For War: French Camouflage During WW1
It did not take long for other armies to adopt camouflage, and each nation did theirs differently. The Great War changed the world forever. A…
A Strange Story From The Civil War: There in McLean’s parlor, Grant & Lee Hashed Out The Surrender
The American Civil War threatened to rip the nation apart and created rifts that in some ways have not healed. For four years the nation…
Sunk & Forgotten -The Fate of the SS Oria’s 4000 POW’s
Throughout human history men have gone to war. Naval transport has created and broken empires, but the harshness of nature means sometimes those traveling by…
To Do My Duty. The Scout Master & Hitler’s Nuclear Program
In the early twentieth century, a British man named Baden Powell founded the Boy Scout Movement. From this humble organization, Scouting spread across the globe.…
From The Atlantic to Pacific: The American Civil War on the West Coast
The American Civil War threatened to split the United States asunder. From California to Virginia the nation divided itself over whether or not it supported…
After WW2 The 10th Mountain Division Veterans Started America’s Ski Industry
America’s entry into the Second World War required the mass mobilization of infantry on a scale not witnessed since the Civil War. To prepare properly…
Slim Pickens Stated His Profession Was “rodeo”, the Recruiter Heard “radio”, Slim Spent WW2 as a Radio Operator
There are three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the army way. During World War II, millions of men donned…
Teddy Roosevelt’s Son Quentin: Lost in Action, Honored by his Foe
The Roosevelt family is a regional and national fixture. On both sides of the political spectrum they have worked for reform in politics and liberty…