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Shes part of the greatest generation and a legend to those who know her. Author: Bill Churchwell Updated: 11:39 PM EST February 1, 2021 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — On Monday, a local World War II veteran had some help to celebrate an important milestone. Audrey Beyer Jones turned 100 years old today. She lives at the Viera Senior Living facility on Airline Road and was surprised with a parade put on by her friends with the American Association of University Women, ...

The great American novelist Ernest Hemingway spent time with the 4th Infantry Division in Europe. Heres What You Need to Know: Hemingway had arrived at the front to join what he would later call his favorite division, and he had come with a chip on his shoulder. During the second week of July 1944 a young, sharp Lieutenant Goldstein of the 4th Infantry Division’s 22nd Infantry Regiment was told by his boss, Colonel Buck Lanhan, “Expect a special civilian, a big war correspondent is coming ...

2021-02-01 14:36:09 GMT2021-02-01 22:36:09(Beijing Time) Xinhua English   BANGKOK, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Thai senior officials said Monday that Thailand is closely monitoring the situation in Myanmar after the neighboring countrys State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint had been detained by the military while a one-year state of emergency was declared. Thailands authorities in charge of security affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are closely monitoring Myanmars...

By CARSON GERBER | Kokomo Tribune, Ind. | Published: January 30, 2021 BUNKER HILL, Ind. (Tribune News Service) — When the 434th Special Operations Wing came to Grissom Air Force Base in 1971, there wasnt a big to-do welcoming members to the military installation. In fact, the reserve unit was looked down upon by the active-duty units there, according to John Ensign, who came to Grissom with the wing when it transferred from what was then Bakalar Air Force Base in Columbus, Ind. "It was kin...

At last, after decades grappling with global terrorism, the United States has a new strategy. The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) announced, “inter-state strategic competition . . . is now the primary concern in U.S. national security.” Renewed great power competition has arrived.     Orienting toward great power competition has helped the Department of Defense focus on the challenge posed by peer competitors. It also has created a strategic blind spot. Too often, great power compet...

Guest Commentary My father, Capt. George Weber, commanded a field company of what was known as the Red Ball Express in World War II. Formed to sustain continuous supply lines for Gen. Patton’s Third Army and other American forces as they raced across Europe toward Germany, the Red Ball Express took men like Dad with strong organizational skills, removed them from their original Army outfits and gave them top-priority access to essential fuel and equipment at coastal loading depots. Those sup...

Troops thought the snow was colder than usual. The turkey dinner served at noon tasted good, but otherwise there was still watch to be stood, weapons to be cleaned and gloves to be thawed out. – Official Report, 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, Malmedy, Belgium - New Years Eve, 1944 By then, the main Battle of the Bulge had thwarted the German attacks which began Dec. 16, 1944. From defensive foxholes, the 120th, which included Wilmington-area National Guard soldiers fighting since Nor...

American railroad workers in specially formed units labored to keep men and matériel rolling forward after D-Day. Heres What You Need to Know: Combat engineers and railway workers recorded a monumental achievement in the summer of 1944. Historian Christian Wolmar concludes that the two world wars could not have been fought to such devastation without military railways, in his book Engines of War. In wars, from the Crimean to the arrival of the jet engine, railways were a dominant technology. ...

What Were Romanian Soldiers Doing at Stalingrad? The destruction of two Romanian armies at Stalingrad increased the unpopularity of the war in Romania and exacerbated the already strained relations between the Romanian and German militaries. Heres What You Need to Know: German and Romanian forces at Stalingrad failed to stem the tide of the resurgent Soviet Red Army. World War II involved some of the most complex alliance systems in the history of warfare. During the course of the conflict, fo...

Imagine such a crisis now. Heres What You Need to Remember: After having just extricated itself from Vietnam, America was in no mood for another war. Yet, the White House felt it could not risk the loss of prestige and influence—especially in the oil-rich Middle East. On the night of October 24, 1973, came the dreaded words:  Assume Defcon 3. On bases and ships around the world, U.S. forces went to Defense Condition 3. As paratroopers prepared to deploy, B-52 nuclear bombers on Guam returne...