by Jack Woodville London | Jul 10, 2011 | Articles
On July 11, you could have been present when Dwight Eisenhower was nominated to be President, 1952 You could have waded ashore in Saipan with marines, 1944 You could have advanced south from Carentan behind a howitzer barrage, in Normandy, 1944 Or, if you were... by Jack Woodville London | Jul 9, 2011 | Articles
On July 9, 1943, American and allied forces began the invasion of Europe in World War II at Gela, Sicily. It was near there that the 93d Evacuation Hospital medical unit went to the front line of the assault to provide emergency treatment for the casualties and convey... 
by Jack Woodville London | Jul 8, 2011 | Articles
In 1959, Dale Ruis, an Army major, and Chester Ovnand, a master sergeant, volunteered for a little-known unit called the South Vietnam Military Assistance Group, a collection of advisers who had been sent to Vietnam to assist the Republic after the French had been... 
by Jack Woodville London | Jul 7, 2011 | Articles
Sherlock Holmes is more real than his creator, Sir Author Conan Doyle. Holmes books and stories continue to sell over one hundred years after first published. Legions of fans troop by 221-B Baker Street in London, an address that does not exist, for a glimpse of the... 
by Jack Woodville London | Jul 6, 2011 | Articles
July 6, 1944: One month to the day after the Allied landings in Normandy, D-Day, Second Lieutenant Jackie Robinson traveled from a hospital in Temple, Texas, to Fort Hood, Texas, a distance of approximately twenty miles. He had been sent to the civilian hospital by...
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