http://feed.informer.com/digests/NOXJSIX80D/feeder Military History Feed - Military.com Originals Respective post owners and feed distributors Wed, 19 Jul 2023 23:55:34 +0000 Feed Informer http://feed.informer.com/ https://www.military.com/off-duty/autos/willys-jeep-how-us-army-created-greatest-military-vehicle-of-all-time.html Military-history urn:uuid:cd309f12-2a66-d585-81c0-4eae1eae746d Tue, 14 May 2024 16:56:41 +0000 I give you the stormer of beaches, the climber of mountains, the 60-horsepower smoke wagon, the World War 4x4 -- the undefeated Willys Jeep. https://www.military.com/history/starliner-crew-join-storied-lineup-of-military-astronauts-test-fly-us-spacecraft.html Military-history urn:uuid:b4157e4e-c732-d959-4279-9f2943bda75b Mon, 06 May 2024 20:42:12 +0000 Like the inaugural Boeing Starliner crew are set to do, here are the U.S. military astronauts who have flown to space as members of the first crew of a U.S. spacecraft. Amanda Miller https://www.military.com/history/lying-state-lying-honor-and-lying-repose-what-they-mean-and-how-they-work.html Military-history urn:uuid:d5fc49c7-df9d-7912-0f53-b272c1920342 Mon, 06 May 2024 18:49:12 +0000 The difference between lying in state and lying in honor is really just dependent on who is being honored, and there are no hard, fast rules or regulations governing who gets the distinction. https://www.military.com/off-duty/autos/what-was-rolling-thunder.html Military-history urn:uuid:29778f7f-31c0-f359-0e68-01cede65b1d5 Mon, 06 May 2024 16:56:44 +0000 No burnouts, no booze – but still one of the most important motorcycle rallies of all time. https://www.military.com/history/wild-and-controversial-life-of-american-sculptor-behind-mount-rushmore.html Military-history urn:uuid:7466cffb-b0ac-3535-6da1-2bb1874cd73d Mon, 06 May 2024 15:15:42 +0000 In late 1924, a rare opportunity presented itself to Gutzon Borglum. https://www.military.com/history/why-allies-forced-nazi-germany-surrender-twice-end-world-war-ii.html Military-history urn:uuid:75a5cc40-df5d-d25c-6439-e9b3dd98fe5a Fri, 03 May 2024 16:05:25 +0000 The Allied forces of World War II were more than ready to accept a Nazi surrender, but when they realized they might have left a potential loophole for Germany to continue fighting the Soviet Union, however, they had no qualms about forcing their vanquished foe to sign another, more complete surrender. https://www.military.com/history/final-flight-of-lou-conter-last-survivor-of-uss-arizona-pearl-harbor.html Military-history urn:uuid:079be1f7-2424-7c5c-887c-1eae82833ff6 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:04:19 +0000 Long before he became the last survivor of the battleship USS Arizona, Lou Conter was a hunter. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/off-duty/movies/2024/04/26/world-war-ii-veteran-and-director-john-ford-next-subject-of-tcms-plot-thickens-podcast.html Military-history urn:uuid:eb30a7c6-f709-bd61-4674-b6a38f09919b Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:16:06 +0000 Ford's career, good and bad, in war and peace, is the subject of "Decoding John Ford," the next installment of TCM's "The Plot Thickens" podcast, premiering June 6, 2024. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/off-duty/books/2024/04/25/i-will-tell-no-war-stories-writer-uncovers-his-fathers-hidden-world-war-ii-history.html Military-history urn:uuid:72d9e8fb-de59-e6a0-14f2-7ebbe02b3fc9 Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:45:05 +0000 When Pincus Mansfield settled down after the war, got married and had children, he never talked about his experiences and his children learned not to ask. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/history/112-year-old-russian-navy-vessel-ukraine-just-hit-anti-ship-missiles.html Military-history urn:uuid:19dc7363-3a88-8472-35da-2827d0afcea2 Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:02:12 +0000 The Russian salvage ship Kommuna has been in service since 1915, when Tsar Nicholas II ruled the Russian Empire. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/off-duty/movies/2024/04/22/9-biggest-military-dirtbags-movies-and-television.html Military-history urn:uuid:bd947575-06e1-fa17-7ee4-5bba438d9efb Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:32:47 +0000 Most U.S. military veterans are uncomfortable with civilians calling them "heroes," but there are a few who should definitely be wary of the term. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/off-duty/television/2024/04/19/band-of-brothers-cast-needs-your-help-recreate-easy-companys-drop-normandy-80-years-later.html Military-history urn:uuid:6a60062a-fece-76ce-108d-e6b3890e9fb7 Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:49:15 +0000 Donations to the nonprofit event will cover the cost of the "Placid Lassie" C-47 Skytrain, equipment for the jump and capturing the moment to help preserve the memories of the real-life soldiers who made the famous jump into history. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/off-duty/television/2024/04/18/veterans-ronnie-adkins-and-rudy-reyes-bring-combat-experience-history-channels-proof-out-there.html Military-history urn:uuid:f2ac1f66-9686-bca8-4bf7-f5b6d583415c Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:17:13 +0000 Adkins and Reyes are looking at stories that deal with real people and events that occurred during World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, the Gulf War and today's ongoing conflicts. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/history/incredible-wartime-career-of-lee-miller-model-turned-world-war-ii-combat-photographer.html Military-history urn:uuid:d45622f1-f42b-1868-32b7-3a5b4b92a56b Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:40:02 +0000 Miller wasn’t the first female combat correspondent, but her legacy is currently having a moment. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/history/taps-how-medal-of-honor-recipient-gave-america-its-most-famous-military-bugle-call-ever.html Military-history urn:uuid:ff95c658-96ee-035c-cffa-37d927509a19 Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:20:18 +0000 The central role that Daniel Butterfield played in taps was largely unknown until the late 19th century, only coming to light after a magazine article in 1898. Stephen Ruiz https://www.military.com/history/angel-of-gettysburg-buried-union-soldiers-while-6-months-pregnant.html Military-history urn:uuid:2db981dc-7965-0709-cbbe-6fc3e8d66d8c Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:26:31 +0000 The stench of decomposing bodies was overpowering, the terrible smell made all the more repugnant by the stifling July heat. It was no job for a woman who was six months' pregnant, and yet, Elizabeth Thorn somehow met the moment. Stephen Ruiz https://www.military.com/history/forgotten-victims-of-first-atomic-blast-oppenheimer-left-out-may-finally-get-their-due.html Military-history urn:uuid:73cd2331-7d43-4dac-aa36-0eb7ebeae726 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:12:46 +0000 Robert Oppenheimer and the scientists he recruited to develop the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos were well aware of the potential for harm to civilians, but the award-winning movie “Oppenheimer” made no mention of the widespread fallout. Richard Sisk https://www.military.com/history/2024/04/08/army-ranger-legend-and-last-living-korean-war-medal-of-honor-recipient-ralph-puckett-dies-97.html Military-history urn:uuid:6cd24c52-7231-4510-c172-60386d2118da Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:28:31 +0000 When Ralph Puckett was chosen to lead a new Ranger company in 1950, he said a prayer: "Dear God, don't let me get a bunch of guys -- good guys -- killed." Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/off-duty/television/2024/04/08/band-of-brothers-pacific-or-masters-of-air-ranked.html Military-history urn:uuid:9fa72226-a69b-b879-1cfe-ca38cf4824c4 Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:40:18 +0000 Ranking Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's groundbreaking World War II series. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/history/new-yorks-famous-katzs-deli-will-still-send-salami-your-boy-army.html Military-history urn:uuid:9470c755-a06d-fac1-8e80-76a19523ee01 Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:39:47 +0000 Though Katz's helped ease hunger pangs and homesickness during World War II with their salamis, the tradition didn't stop there. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/history/lou-conter-last-survivor-of-uss-arizona-pearl-harbor-attack-dies-102.html Military-history urn:uuid:5171c1e0-286e-5e55-793f-4091437f6c01 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 22:16:15 +0000 Lou Conter was one of 335 sailors and Marines to survive the attack, and was the last living survivor. Some 2,341 service members died on Dec. 7, 1941. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/history/why-us-navy-operated-fleet-of-ice-cream-ships-during-world-war-ii.html Military-history urn:uuid:3c873a0a-b9ec-71b8-b028-0aa775a1b818 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:06:13 +0000 If an army marches on its stomach, as Napoleon Bonaparte once purportedly said, then a fighting force as large and powerful as the one the United States fielded in World War II is also going to need dessert. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/off-duty/television/2024/03/27/michael-douglas-benjamin-franklin-brings-france-american-revolution-new-apple-tv-series.html Military-history urn:uuid:7a6ef500-30e0-1f2f-0d23-aff6fc02cd39 Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:51:09 +0000 This new dramatization of Franklin's most important diplomatic magnum opus is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff's 2005 book about his eight years in France. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/history/fracture-jaw-armys-plan-use-tactical-nuclear-weapons-during-vietnam-war.html Military-history urn:uuid:df233506-c412-7b5b-ab51-1a117676ad1c Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:11:02 +0000 On Jan. 24, 1968, Westmoreland asked Sharp to move tactical nuclear weapons into northern Quang Tri province as a last-ditch effort to prevent North Vietnamese forces from capturing Khe Sanh. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/03/25/army-cancels-planned-public-visits-trinity-bomb-site-april-you-can-blame-oppenheimer.html Military-history urn:uuid:f99ad07c-8473-d8be-f0bb-bfa48be25a23 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 21:21:27 +0000 The Army has canceled the April 6 open house for the public to visit the New Mexico site of the Trinity atomic bomb blast for lack of funds following a crowd surge last October brought on by the blockbuster movie "Oppenheimer." Richard Sisk https://www.military.com/off-duty/television/2024/03/25/band-of-brothers-actors-are-training-parachute-normandy-80th-anniversary-of-d-day.html Military-history urn:uuid:54c81ff4-f519-7c94-3864-5bfa6f73c015 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:57:32 +0000 With the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy approaching in June, some of the actors decided they would commemorate the D-Day landings by training at Camp Toccoa and then jumping into the Cotentin Peninsula. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/off-duty/movies/2024/03/18/hurt-locker-and-americas-fading-memory-of-iraq-war.html Military-history urn:uuid:2e07952b-cc5f-0947-ddac-dfbaa4e1058c Mon, 18 Mar 2024 21:22:24 +0000 On the 21st anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, it's time to reassess how "The Hurt Locker" and other movies and TV shows shaped our memory of the Iraq War. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/history/how-female-service-members-paved-way-modern-womens-rights-movement.html Military-history urn:uuid:21b582a4-6f3e-b008-2697-ca779b7d2de3 Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:56:58 +0000 The contributions that servicewomen have made to the broader fight for women’s equality in the workplace has largely been erased from the narrative of women’s progress in the United States. Lena Andrews https://www.military.com/off-duty/books/2024/03/15/11-finalists-first-ever-american-battlefield-trust-book-prize-history.html Military-history urn:uuid:3a3ad58e-358c-5502-de9e-2c126c334c93 Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:41:35 +0000 The American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History is like March Madness for the best books on military history. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/history/jfks-funeral-was-only-state-burial-us-history-feature-foreign-military-unit.html Military-history urn:uuid:5189f609-e2fb-ed6f-0655-bf04e7afef3c Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:24:21 +0000 The funeral procession was also greeted by a unit of the Irish Defence Forces, which was conducting a silent drill, standing closer to the grave than any other military personnel, except the honor guard. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/history/first-parachute-jump-fixed-wing-aircraft-was-terrifying-risk-everyone-involved.html Military-history urn:uuid:7a49c7a5-49b3-0612-8a24-29d194dfe0fe Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:28:35 +0000 U.S. troops have been jumping out of perfectly good airplanes for more than 80 years, but a significant amount of training and preparation has gone into making paratroopers actually combat effective. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/history/how-first-female-pilot-die-active-duty-us-military-cultivated-her-love-of-flying.html Military-history urn:uuid:12837ccf-3867-07f4-c289-3cf22a513ebe Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:09:17 +0000 Women Airforce Service Pilots, created in August 1943 after WAFS and WFTD merged, flew at 126 military bases, handling 80% of all ferrying missions during the war while freeing men for combat. Stephen Ruiz https://www.military.com/history/thieves-are-stripping-sunken-world-war-ii-shipwrecks-of-their-valuable-steel.html Military-history urn:uuid:62bb08e5-f23c-6f54-09cd-29cc1be86e4a Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:48:23 +0000 In 2017, a civilian search team discovered the wreck of the USS Indianapolis in a 600-mile swathe of the Pacific Ocean. The 10,000-ton heavy cruiser was sunk by two torpedoes in the Philippine Sea in July 1945. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/03/05/va-order-remove-iconic-world-war-ii-kiss-photo-facilities-reversed-secretary-mcdonough.html Military-history urn:uuid:d4945549-9869-eaee-3288-742cd88d7575 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:39:38 +0000 The VA's head health operations officer sent a memo to regional health directors in February saying the photo depicted non-consensual activity and wasn't in line with VA principles. Patricia Kime https://www.military.com/off-duty/2024/03/01/if-you-working-out-weights-while-deployed-overseas-you-can-thank-arnold-schwarzenegger.html Military-history urn:uuid:27c4d8c2-3aa3-2029-eddc-bfa8dee58795 Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:24:29 +0000 In 1990, President George H.W. Bush named actor, bodybuilder and seven-time Mr. Olympia Arnold Schwarzenegger as chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Schwarzenegger also became his sometime gym buddy in the White House. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/history/how-3-living-black-medal-of-honor-recipients-embody-militarys-top-award.html Military-history urn:uuid:f71a83cc-37ec-c042-56b4-dd5525b06bf3 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:04:41 +0000 On Jan. 10, 1968, Private 1st Class Clarence Sasser was part of a reconnaissance mission in southern Vietnam when his detachment’s helicopters were attacked upon landing. Stephen Ruiz https://www.military.com/history/6-events-military-history-happened-leap-day.html Military-history urn:uuid:28bb621a-d7c8-5458-c09a-758a96d5f549 Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:42:37 +0000 Leap Day has a long history -- it's not something we all just arbitrarily decided to do one day. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/02/22/soldiers-executed-army-after-1917-riot-receive-military-burial-honors-new-va-headstones.html Military-history urn:uuid:e5b5e953-5712-df08-bd54-bec8d59590e7 Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:47:40 +0000 More than 100 years after they were convicted of mutiny and murder and hanged for the 1917 Houston Riot, 17 Black soldiers have finally received military burial honors along with new headstone. Patricia Kime https://www.military.com/history/czech-knight-resisted-nazi-aggression-when-world-abandoned-his-country.html Military-history urn:uuid:d55e8d16-91dd-50c6-88ff-cb6b344c2df4 Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:46:07 +0000 Chivalry wasn't dead in 1938 when Nazi tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia. It lived on in at least one man: Josef Menčík, also known as the "Knight of Strakonice." Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/off-duty/how-creator-of-pop-tarts-gave-us-delicious-treat-and-sweet-foreign-policy-tool.html Military-history urn:uuid:2e1c0870-f609-e274-da14-546d45648ac2 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:44:33 +0000 Pop-Tart creator William "Bill" Post was also an Army Air Forces veteran who served in occupied Japan after World War II. And although his postwar service is commendable, his breakfast-table creation is probably the most everlasting contribution Post gave the United States. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/02/20/combat-con-artists-of-world-war-ii-who-hoodwinked-nazis-get-long-overdue-top-honor-congress.html Military-history urn:uuid:b5c1544c-cfd4-50df-27f7-593387039aeb Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:57:32 +0000 From D-Day to the crossing of the Rhine, the Army's top-secret 23rd Headquarters Special Troops unit used inflatable tanks, trucks and artillery pieces; bogus radio traffic; 500-pound loudspeakers blasting recordings of divisions on the move; and other means of fakery to confuse the Nazis. In the process, it may have saved the lives of 15,000 to 30,000 American troops, according to Army historians. Richard Sisk https://www.military.com/history/us-military-almost-deployed-nuclear-missile-trains-american-railroads-during-cold-war.html Military-history urn:uuid:92c77c34-28ad-cec2-5ffe-203ad9192795 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:35:57 +0000 The Cuban Missile Crisis was two decades in the rearview, but in the early 1980s, Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union remained feverishly high. Stephen Ruiz https://www.military.com/history/skylabs-1979-crash-provides-glimpse-international-space-stations-future.html Military-history urn:uuid:2c7daf29-f4e4-c1f1-67e0-2611eed1b8e6 Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:33:06 +0000 As the U.S. and its partners involved in the International Space Station work through another possible down-to-the-wire, space station deorbiting scenario, a top takeaway from Skylab still applies: "You're only as good as your worst assumption." Amanda Miller https://www.military.com/history/2024/02/15/chuck-mawhinney-deadliest-sniper-marine-corps-history-dies-75.html Military-history urn:uuid:01afe698-d482-24c4-7fe6-76d18d7df8bf Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:13:19 +0000 Chuck Mawhinney's record was an incredible achievement given the fact that he nearly didn't join the Marine Corps in the first place. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/history/why-los-banos-raid-of-world-war-ii-considered-textbook-airborne-operation.html Military-history urn:uuid:33b329d7-b1e2-839a-e0c9-bad279b6fe3f Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:51:47 +0000 For this four-phase plan to work, all four steps would have to begin simultaneously -- no small feat for an operation that required the coordination of thousands of people. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/history/how-navy-destroyer-almost-killed-fdr-torpedo.html Military-history urn:uuid:a436188e-1222-d4c7-fc3b-93830255f52d Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:32:16 +0000 A year and a half before President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, his life was put in peril on Nov. 14, 1943, all because of a torpedo inadvertently launched from a U.S. Navy destroyer during World War II. Stephen Ruiz https://www.military.com/history/navys-short-lived-plan-dominate-skies-flying-aircraft-carriers.html Military-history urn:uuid:4b387910-e923-d2b4-d519-a58a48f5712b Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:22:00 +0000 Developed by the Navy's lighter-than-air program, the Akron and its sister ship, the USS Macon, were filled with helium and capable of becoming airborne without assistance from outside mechanical or technological systems. Stephen Ruiz https://www.military.com/history/one-of-most-popular-coast-guardsmen-history-was-beloved-dog.html Military-history urn:uuid:89a8833a-912a-7dfb-cca4-aca9e2802bef Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:58:17 +0000 Sinbad’s unlikely journey to becoming the Coast Guard cutter Campbell’s mascot for more than a decade made him the subject of a short movie, a popular book, and a national publicity tour. Stephen Ruiz https://www.military.com/history/navys-naming-of-its-newest-destroyer-latest-attempt-honor-forgotten-black-wwii-hero.html Military-history urn:uuid:07d7c889-8737-2dd1-b3b2-9d852485ea34 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 20:12:16 +0000 In a daring feat of strength and endurance following an enemy attack that sank the USS Gregory on Sept. 5, 1942, Charles Jackson French swam his shipmates out of danger by towing their life raft with a line tied around his waist. Blake Stilwell https://www.military.com/off-duty/television/2024/01/30/watch-henry-cavill-kill-nazis-guy-ritchies-new-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-trailer.html Military-history urn:uuid:af216160-77e3-e664-e85d-9db1237fa733 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:27:49 +0000 The movie is based on the true story of Britain's real-world Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, the forerunner of today's special operations that conducted many of the same kinds of missions. Blake Stilwell