March 3, 2021 How Far? All the Way! Benjamin Franklin first envisioned airborne troops dropped by parachute from hot air balloons flying behind enemy lines in a 1784…
February 23, 2021 “Powder” in Pictures George Marshall called him “Powder.” Powder ordered a warm winter coat for Gen. Marshall before traveling to Russia and found…
February 4, 2021 I’m Sorry, Mr. President, But I Don’t Agree With That At All On Oct. 3, 1917, Gen. John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I, visited…
January 20, 2021 Oh, Fleet! George Marshall loved dogs. He had several as a boy, and usually had one around as an adult. This is…
January 5, 2021 Elizebeth Who? She wrote the book on code breaking for the U.S. Army, and taught the first cryptography classes to soldiers…
December 24, 2020 The First Wartime Christmas The third week of December, 1941, a British delegation including Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the British Chiefs of Staff…
December 17, 2020 “I Am Interested in the Soldier Having His Pants” While a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, George Marshall studied military history and tactics, and was doubtless familiar with…
December 7, 2020 Friends and Pranksters: Marshall and Brigadier General Adams It is difficult to imagine Marshall as inhabiting anything but the no-nonsense, resolute persona of his professional life. This image is so pervasive that we are commonly…
November 18, 2020 Not Retirement At All Gen. George Marshall served as Army Chief of Staff from September 1939 to November 1945, longer than the ordinary four-year…
