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Report details airman’s Humvee death A 19-year-old female Air Force service member who was killed in a Humvee accident in 2023 was not wearing a seat belt and the driver was driving too fast. A recently released investigation report shed details on the incident that came during a convoy back to F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. Airman Trinity Reinhart was riding as a passenger in the second vehicle of a two-vehicle convoy on Sept. 16, 2023, after working security at a missile facility near Grover, Colorado, the Ground Accident Investigation Board report released earlier this month detailed. According to a military.com account, the vehicle was traveling 45 mph hour down an unpaved road when the driver of the Humvee lost control and the vehicle began sliding off the…

The aftermath of World War I brought the Treaty of Versailles, a largely vindictive instrument imposed by France, Great Britain and the United States on Germany, meant to disarm, devastate and humiliate the former Kaiser’s Empire. The once great Imperial military, a time-honored tradition among the German people, was reduced to a mere shadow of its former self. As well as the land army being whittled down to a national “police force”, the German navy, renamed the “Reichsmarine”, was likewise decimated, reduced to a mere fifteen thousand sailors (one thousand five hundred of which were officers and NCO’s), manning only six old battleships, six light cruisers, twelve destroyers, and a small line of defensive shoreline installations. Naval aircraft were forbidden, making the “eyes and spears of the sky” no longer…

The old saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” and researchers often use photographic evidence to confirm their findings. However, this is actually a relatively new way to seek information. We really don’t know precisely what Founding Father George Washington looked like, even as many might think we do. After all, we have his likeness on the $1 bill! Yet, the version of Washington is based on Gilbert Stuart’s famed portrait, which shows features of Washington’s face that differ from other contemporary portraits. We at least have a sense of Washington’s appearance. However, the same can’t be said of Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Kiev, who infamously defeated the Swedish invaders in 1240 at the Battle of Neva and the German crusaders at the 1242 Battle on the…

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More on the photogenic M-1910 Meat Can In his article on “Meat Can M-1910” “mess kit” (www.militarytrader.com/militaria-collectibles/more-than-a-plate), Mr. Barnes asserted “they apparently liked to have photographs taken with them”. I think it’s more likely the occasion of the line of soldiers for mess call was a photo opportunity to capture a group of soldiers in one place, and that soldiers liked to be photographed, rather than soldiers liked to be photographed with their mess equipment. Occasionally, soldiers used the reflecting properties of the Meat Can to flash sunlight into the lens of the camera. —Dick Ellis Gun jeep memories from Vietnam You can’t see much of this jeep, but, except for the gun, it looks like any army jeep of Vietnam days. The gun is a 106millimeter recoilless rifle. It…

Over the years that I have been working with re-enactors, especially those groups depicting British units in both world wars, I have noticed a common, indeed recurring, theme which has become more obvious since thinking about it. That is the presence of the hot beverage tea as a revitalizing drink and as a morale lifter. I’m reminded of the scene in the 1977 movie “A Bridge too Fa”’ when the character of Major-General Robert “Roy” Urquhart, played by Sean Connery, is offered a mug of tea by his orderly, who also serves as his driver. He recaps all the disasters that have befallen him since landing in Holland and asks if a mug of tea could help. In response, the orderly replies it couldn’t do any harm. It seems the…