Tales, Anecdotes and Trivia

The word "martinet" is nowadays used to denote a strict disciplinarian and a person who adheres to the details of forms and metho...

While planning the D-Day landings in Normandy, the U.S. Coast Guard was tasked with providing search and rescue craft for the operation...

Helicopters were carefully introduced to the U.S. Armed Forces during the latter half of the Second World War, and Brooklyn played an import...

Thinking of the redeployment of NJG 2 to Sicily, it would be interesting to find out how nightfighting worked over the Mediterranean, so...

Bomber Command and German Night Fighters are for obvious reasons tied together. The Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Bomber Command HQ...

The largest battle of the American War of Independence was fought on Long Island, no more than a brisk walk east of our neighborhoods. It ...