by Steve Snyder | Mar 10, 2015 | Historical
The following is a Lunch Box Lecture given by Seth Pardon at the National WW II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana that I attended in the fall of 2013 commemorating the 70th anniversary of Black Week. Casualties in the 8th Air Force were never higher than during the...
by Steve Snyder | Mar 10, 2015 | Historical
YouTube user EmperorTigerstar has painstakingly mapped the changing front lines of World War II in Europe. Incredibly, the map accounts for every single day of the war — from the invasion of Poland through to the surrender of Nazi Germany. This timelapse offers a...
by Steve Snyder | Feb 10, 2015 | Historical
Below is a translation from an article that appeared in the Belgium newspaper, l’avenir Thanks to the crew of the B 17 Sunday, the civil authorities and made military respect to the crew of the B 17 fortress that crashed in Macquenoise. The day of February 8,...