(Montgomery Advertiser) – Complaints from veterans and from a high-profile commission that the services routinely were “low-balling” disability ratings for military members found medically unfit spurred Congress last year to take action.
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- – Michael B. Barrett. Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands. Twentieth-Century Battles Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. x + 298 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-34969-9; $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-34969-9. Reviewed by Jesse Kauffman (Stanford University) Published on H-German (March, 2009) Commissioned by Susan R. Boettcher A Forgotten Eastern Storm On October 12, 1917, an amphibious German invasion force of some 25,000 troops, 350 ships and bo
- Every now and then genealogists need to order documents from the National Archives . To make your order or to download necessary forms, just go to the Ready to Order? Have a Comment? page at the National Archives and Records Administration website and make your request. The following forms can currently be downloaded in pdf format from the site. You can also make your order online on the same line (faster than using an actual form – and trackable): Ship Passenger Arrival Records (NATF F
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- (Asia Times) – Although it concluded more than 60 years ago, the Tokyo War Crimes Trial is still a live issue today – in Japan as in the world at large.
- Footnote.com – – I’ve had a lot of trouble narrowing my searches in www.Footnote.com in past months, so I decided to try some alternate methods. I knew that Isaac Johnson of Chatham, Connecticut had a Revolutionary War Pension File, and I knew that his wife’s maiden name was Rebecca Cole. Here is the Footnote.com new home page – it has a search box at the top just waiting for a name to be put in: I resisted the urge to put the name in the box, since I knew that doing that would give me too many match
(The Gadsden Times) – A Purple Heart medal was placed on the pillow next to Thomas Steakley as he lay wounded in a hospital 40 years ago. Of all of the awards and recognitions for his service in Vietnam, it was the Purple Heart medal that made him most proud.
Article by Luke Scott
Many people are unaware of an inheritance tax exemption that could be saving families a fortune.
The tax exemption is for military personnel who die as a result of injuries or diseases sustained while on military service. Even if they die years later and indirectly, the exemption still stands.
This important, but little known, piece of wills and probate legislation applies to all servicemen and women including doctors, nurses, drivers and war correspondents. In order to qualify for the exemption it must be proved that they have died on active service, or that their death was related to, or hastened by, a wound, illness or injury contracted while on active service.
- (The News & Observer) – On March 15, 1781, at Guilford Courthouse near present-day Greensboro, Lord Charles Cornwallis’s army of British regulars and German mercenaries defeated an American force of Continentals and militia commanded by General Nathanael Greene. “Long, Obstinate, and Bloody” is the first book-length account of battle.
- Reinstatement of the AFGCM (The Base) – The AFGCM is awarded to personnel in an enlisted status for “exemplary conduct” while in the active military service of the United States.
- (Dothan Eagle) – Hoyt Alexander Canady answered his country’s call more than nine decades ago and took a bullet in the leg fighting the Germans in France during World War I.
