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Wired Magazine Highlights D-Day Tech

On the anniversary of D-Day, June 6 1944, Wired magazine published two articles highlighting the tech that helped win the war. Those links are here: The Gear, Gadgets and Weaponry of a D-Day Paratrooper June 6, 1944: Artificial Harbor Paves the Way for Normandy Invasion

SGT Rock (Issue #1 of 6)

I finally got the chance to read the new re-issue of SGT. Rock, a comic I used to read off and on WAY back in the day. The great Joe Kubert did the original and now Billy Tucci is serving up the sequel in six issues. My take? It was okay. I am interested to […]

“My Name is America” Series

I recently came across a book called The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins – A World War II Soldier – Normandy, France, 1944.  My daughter brought it home from her elementary school library for me to read.   “What the heck,” I thought.  I haven’t read a first person account of the Normandy landings in some […]

ww2db.com Featured Image, #7

The first time I saw this image, I wondered if it was posed. There are the kids on a hillside looking off into the distance, over the grayness of all the debris (all pushed back) to the future. The color, too, is interesting, with the splash of red in the middle, and the blue framing […]

Operation Cobra in The War

So in the Invasion episode of The War, I found the discussion of Operation Cobra a little short. I mean, how is it possible to discuss this event and not mention the fact that Allied bombers also killed and wounded American soldiers due to “short” drops? One web page… Over 100 U.S. soldiers were killed […]