Posts tagged “World War II”
“They’re espadrilles but they’re flat,” my wife said to me in Rome with the same mistaken confidence it would be understood as if I’d remarked to her that Chamberlain should never have been fooled by the Stresa Conference and appeasement was always destined to fail.
Eternal, The Honor It Bore
Reunited ‘Marauders’ Recall War’s Hell in Burma’s Jungles
Command and Control
Stories from the Cold War
Never Forget
Kristallnacht
Vincent Albanese (1918 – 1986)
Papa would have been 100 today.
#FridayFive: War Movies
My favorite movies about war
Ernest Hemingway: American Sniper?
The first casualty of war is the truth.
The 1973 National Personnel Records Center Fire
An unparalleled disaster
Vincent Albanese (1918 – 1986)
Today would have been the 95th birthday of my Papa, Vincent Albanese. He was born on October 14th, 1918. He was incredibly handsome and my grandmother often compared him to Clark Gable. He fought in World War II as a member of Merrill’s Marauders and married Anna Sofia DiFolco when he returned. He became a