posted by Military Records on May 20
- (The Daily Tribune) - The counsel for former Capt. Candelaria Rivas, who was dismissed from the military service by a court martial for harboring then fugitive Marine Capt. Nicanor Faeldon, has asked the Armed Forces leadership to immediately release the woman lawyer on grounds that there is no basis for her detention.
posted by Military Records on May 18
- (New Times San Luis Obispo) - There are fights, and then there are fights. During World War II, Filipino soldiers fought alongside their U.S. counterparts against Japanese invaders, sharing the same fears, fights, and fates as part of a guerrilla resistance.
posted by Military Records on May 16
- (KOAA-TV Colorado Springs - Pueblo) - The military is racing to inspect more than 90,000 U.S.-run facilities across Iraq to reduce a deadly threat troops face far off the battlefield: electrocution or shock while showering or using appliances.
posted by Military Records on May 15
- (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.
posted by Military Records on May 13
- 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
posted by Military Records on May 12
- (Washington Post) - A federal judge today ordered the release of detainee who has provided incriminating information against scores of other men confined at the U.S. military prison at U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
posted by Military Records on May 11
- (Salem News) - LISBON - Only veterans and special groups will be allowed to completely view military discharge records on file at the Columbiana County Recorder’s Office because of a change in the law.
posted by Military Records on May 8
- - 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
posted by Military Records on May 6
- (Baltimore Sun) - Defense Dept. holds session on finding MIAs Calvin and Kenneth Bayne, 81-year-old twins, can easily recall boxing lessons and camping trips with their big brother Robert. Also etched into their boyhood memories is the day in 1945 that a telegram arrived, telling them that Pfc. Robert Bayne, then 26, was missing in action near Mannheim, Germany. His remains were never recovered.
posted by Military Records on May 4
- (Englewood Sun) - Family returns dog tag, found in Peace River decades after it was issued, to the son of the man who lost it. ARCADIA — Clayton Finora, now 9, of San Antonio, Fla., had no idea what he’d found when, two years ago, he shook a sieve of mud from the bottom of the Peace River.