I’m not sure why I never wrote about our jaunt to Arromanches before. I wrote about our jaunt to Pointe du Hoc and the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. But I never wrote anything about Arromanches. Hmm… Well, what better day to fix that than on June 6th in memoryContinue Reading

In honor of Memorial Day I decided to write about a fantastic program I watched on PBS last week called The Ghost Army. Wow. I was absolutely engrossed. I don’t know if everyone has a favorite war or era of military history, but both WWI and WWII have always fascinatedContinue Reading

Out of the stories of the World War Two and the evils and atrocities of the Third Reich were born a few ghost stories. Stories of military apparitions dot the European countryside, phantom fliers cruise the skies of the North Sea and spectral paratroopers wander aimlessly on forgotten airfields. WarContinue Reading