Graphic Images
The unseen war is preserved in a series of shoebox-sized containers. It’s easy to imagine them in storage at the National Archives & Records Administration… Read More »Graphic Images
Phil Wood
Eyewitness To Saipan
The internet can be a wonderful place; you search for one thing, you find another. While researching for a man on the MissingMarines roster, I… Read More »Eyewitness To Saipan
The Letters.
In the previous post, I mentioned a lesson learned in my graduate program: history does not repeat, it echoes, and historians are responsible for those… Read More »The Letters.
The Legacy of July 5.
As a child, I loved the Fourth of July. It meant loading the blue Plymouth Voyager with beach balls, lawn chairs, sunblock and sand pails, and… Read More »The Legacy of July 5.
Memento
This little painting was saved in a metal box for seventy years. Tucked away with a few old photographs, a few dozen letters, and the… Read More »Memento
Gretchen Wood Williams (1923 – 2014)
Gretchen Wood Williams – known to her family as “Big Gretchen,” the younger sister of Lt. Philip Wood and one of the “Dear Girls” to… Read More »Gretchen Wood Williams (1923 – 2014)