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A Bridge Way Too Far
The 101st Airborne descends on Eindhoven Operation Market Garden September 17 – 25, 1944 In warfare, as in life, there is a fine line between risky and reckless. With the 20-20 vision afforded by history, I think we can say that Operation Market Garden fell toward the...
Battle of Britain Day
Heinkel He 111 bombers cross the Straight of Dover September 15th 1940 September 15th is remembered as Battle of Britain Day, commemorating the great aerial battle fought over southern England in 1940. The Objective On May 10th, 1940, Hitler unleased his armies...
The Few
On August 20th 1940, as the Battle of Britain raged in the skies above southern England, Churchill gave his speech praising the RAF’s fight against Hitler’s Luftwaffe, which included the now famous expression, ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by...
The War That Shouldn’t Have Started: How a Murder Turned Into a World War
The flame that lit World War I The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of AustriaWorld War I began over a hundred years ago this month. It is one of history’s great tragedies, because it had no clear and definitive reason, no clear justification for killing 20...
Eighty Years Ago — August 1945
Atomic clouds above Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right) August 1945On August 6th, 1945, eighty years ago this week, a Boeing B29 Silverplate Super Fortress named Enola Gay, callsign Dimples 82, flown by Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped a uranium-based atomic bomb...
Reflections on July 4th
This year July 4th occurs during troubled and unsettled times. Temperatures are running high, metaphorically and meteorologically. I am writing this a few days before the 4th, so perhaps there will be news that changes what I write today. With that caveat, here goes:...
