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Jesse Brown, the U.S. Navy’s first black aviator, overcame hardship and prejudice in his quest for wings of gold. Jesse Leroy Brown set his sights on flying when he was just a youngster working in Mississippi’s corn and cotton fields. Growing up as the son of a sharecropper, whenever he spotted an airplane overhead, young …
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WWII Book Review: Japan’s Imperial ArmyJapan’s Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945 By Edward J. Drea. 332 pp. University Press of Kansas, 2009. $34.95. This is the perfect meeting of author and subject: Edward J… Read MoreClose Call Near BastogneIn villages leading into Bastogne, two American battalions stave off a massive panzer assault. In the villages around Bastogne on December 24, 1944, American and German commanders … Read MoreWWII Letters from Readers- February 2010More Than a Machine Ronald H. Bailey’s “The Incredible Jeep” was extremely interesting and obviously well researched (September 2009). He comments that GIs and generals alike consi… Read MoreTeddy Suhren’s Last PatrolLong-lost photographs document the final mission of a U-boat rebel. At 9:30 p.m. on July 9, 1942, the German submarine U-564 slipped out of the harbor at Brest, on the northwest co… Read MoreThe Speed-Up KingIn 1940, a Danish machinist helped jump-start America’s transformation from carmaker to weapons giant. Sunday, May 26, 1940, was a momentous day on both sides of the Atlantic. On t… Read More
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