Meet the only B-26 Marauder crewman to receive the Medal of Honor
With fire streaming from his engine and the right wing half enveloped in flames, Lindsey led the formation to drop their 2,000-pound loads over France.
By Jon Guttman
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The AEF ‘lost’ his MOH paperwork. It took nearly 70 years to correct.
With half his troops down, Cpl. Freddie Stowers led the rest.
By Jon Guttman and Nicole Bauke
Marine Corps greenlights boat-based recon companies, narco-subs
The Marine Corps is dialing back its vision for shallow-water littoral regiments, but greenlighting a new unit with special high-speed boats.
By Hope Hodge Seck
Meet the WWII ace and Medal of Honor recipient who mastered the P-47
Neel Kearby became a hardcore “believer” in the P-47 and devoted himself to developing a doctrine for making the most of the Thunderbolt’s diving speed.
By Jon Guttman
After World War I, séances boomed – and dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home
In March 1915, Raymond Lodge was deployed to France. By September, he was dead. A few weeks later, however, he got in touch with his family.
By Alice Vernon, Aberystwyth University, The Conversation