As we commemorate those soldiers who died in war since the U.S. Civil War on this upcoming Memorial Day of May 30, 2011, I want to share a p...

  “The ALLIED airborne operation in Sicily was decisive despite widely scattered drops which must be expected in a night landing. It is my...

Operation Husky: Axis Forces in Sicily In July 1943, the defenses of Sicily were as follows: there were between 200,000 and 300,000 Ita...

Bill’s firefight at the pill box on the night of July 9 through the morning of July 10 in my last blog post is a typical account of the type...

The date of today’s post is Veteran’s Day here in the United States – November 11, 2010 . I want to take this opportunity and thank all of o...

For Operation HUSKY everyone in the 505 th PIR jumped because the gliders which usually brought in Service Company personnel (besides the j...