07/04/2013: Marines serving with Alpha Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, team up with Assault Craft Unit 5, a Navy unit based out of Camp Pendleton, CA, to make an amphibious landing. The Marines learned how to tie down their light armored vehicles onto ACU-5's landing craft air cushion, a…
2013-07-04 by Robbin Laird When inside the beltway, one can often lose sense of reality. One of these realities is how perception matters in the big world out there, and showing up to honor allied memories and to be present in major events is crucial to shaping current and future…
07/03/2013: After visiting the memorials in St. Naizare, the families of the B-17 crew visited one of the targets of the raid 70 years ago -- the Nazi U-boat base. The base is a heavy reinforced facility with anti-aircraft protection. Obviously, this was a high value target but also one…
07/03/2013: The families of the crewmembers and participants in the celebration spent two days together touring the local area and preparing for the memorial celebration. On Saturday June 29, 2013, the group spent the day on the bus and began the day with a visit to the 1917 memorial to…
07/03/2013: After visiting one site which saw B-17 operations, namely the U-boat pens, we then visited the key target for the July 5, 1943 attack, namely the airfield and factory areas in support of German air operations against the United Kingdom. Nantes airport (formerly known as Aéroport Château Bougon)owes its…
07/03/2013: The next phase was the service in the local church accompanied by the presentation of the colors from several French veteran units. There was then a ceremony at the war monuments outside the church to those who fought in World War I and World War II. Next there was…
07/03/2013: The final phase of the ceremony was the unveiling of the monument to the B-17 crew. Following the ceremony, several planes flew over the beach but the queen of the event was clearly the B-17 come low over the beach where her brother was still to be found in…
2013-07-03 By Kenneth Maxwell Fifa apparently prohibits cursing at football games. Or so an avid fan of "Vasco," one of the Rio de Janeiro football teams, tells me. I don't know if this is true. But it seems probable. Though I don't see how such a rule can be enforced. But then I suppose…
