December 24, 2020 The First Wartime Christmas The third week of December, 1941, a British delegation including Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the British Chiefs of Staff…
December 17, 2020 “I Am Interested in the Soldier Having His Pants” While a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, George Marshall studied military history and tactics, and was doubtless familiar with…
December 7, 2020 Friends and Pranksters: Marshall and Brigadier General Adams It is difficult to imagine Marshall as inhabiting anything but the no-nonsense, resolute persona of his professional life. This image is so pervasive that we are commonly…
November 18, 2020 Not Retirement At All Gen. George Marshall served as Army Chief of Staff from September 1939 to November 1945, longer than the ordinary four-year…
October 20, 2020 No more let us falter! From Malta to Yalta! "No more let us falter! From Malta to Yalta!" telegraphed Prime Minister Winston Churchill to President Roosevelt on New Year's…
September 23, 2020 Breaking “Purple” in William Friedman’s own words In late 1938, a decoded Japanese message indicated that in February 1939, the current “A” encryption would no longer be…
August 13, 2020 Three WACs from Virginia In the blog about the 6888th Central Postal Delivery Battalion, it was noted that the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps was…
July 22, 2020 The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion The 64th anniversary of the dedication of the Colleville-sur-Mer Normandy American Cemetery was commemorated July 18. Among the thousands of…
July 16, 2020 A Searing Light It was first called the “Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials,” then the “Manhattan Engineer District,” after the location…
