STORIES FROM THE GREAT WAR

Monday, February 28, 2011

SOLDIER TELLS OF LIFE IN THE TRENCHES

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Soldier tells Of life in the trenches. London Dec. 30. 1914 Correspondent of AP. The following account of life at the front is from a corres...

Fighting in the Air

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A fantastic article about air fighting in WW1, from the Air Service Journal July 1917 Lieut. Col. L.W.B. Rees, RFC and RA Fighting in the Ai...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

FOREIGN DECORATIONS GIVEN TO AMBULANCE SERVICE SOLDIERS FROM PENNSYLVANIA

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I have been negligent on keeping up with this blog. Reason! I jist recently RETIRED and I am just getting into the feel of retirement. I wil...
Monday, September 27, 2010

A GERMAN ARMY CHARGE 1914..OR .HOW ONE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT

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HOW ONE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT “With you fellows I’d fetch the devil out of hell.” I found this great article in the Pottsville Republican Newspa...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

QUARTER-MASTER TERLINE'S HEROIC SACRIFICE

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QUARTER-MASTER TERLINE'S HEROIC SACRIFICE Flight August 10, 1916 The Daily Telegraph Paris correspondent, writing on Sunday, says :— ...

SOPWITH CAMEL PILOT ON A LOW LEVEL STRAFE

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Sopwith Camel BEING AN ORDINARY INCIDENT IN THE ORDINARY LIFE OF AN ORDINARY PILOT. A Low Strafe THE clouds were hanging about six hundred f...

THE ZEPPELIN CAPTAIN LT. COMMANDER MATHAY'S STORY

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The Famous Zepplin Captain. Lt. Commander Henrich Mathy This is a fasinating story told to the New York World MAgazine By Captain Mathy THE ...
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My interests are Aviation, military history, Early Baseball and anthracite coal mining. My interest in military history deals with what the common soldier, sailor, marine and airman experienced during peace time or war.I enjoy old aircraft their systems, equipment and operations. I have published four books two on military history. "Pennsylvanian Voices of the Great War".McFarland Press and "The History of Company C 50th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry, from the camp, battlefield and the prison pen, " The History Press. My coal mining books include, "Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region," Arcadia Press and "Death in the Mines", The History Press. I served for four years in the USAF as an aircraft mechanic working on many different types of aircraft. I served for 13 months in Vietnam while working and flying on the C7A Caribou. I also worked as an Air Traffic Controller in the PANG. I started my work career after the military as an aircraft mechanic for the US Gov't working on Ch-47, OH-6, OH-58 U-8 and U8-F aircraft. .
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