World War II

Friday marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944. On that day, Allied forces began the push to end the European front of World War II by landing…

This Friday will mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day: the day 160,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, in a bid to invade…

At the close of World War II, Adolph Hitler committed suicide rather than face a world not shaped to his liking. So too did high-ranking Nazi officials…

When I saw that Tim Townsend had written a book centered on the Lutheran chaplain at the Nuremberg trials, I knew I would read it.The Rev. Henry Gerecke…

On January 29, 1944, the USS Missouri (BB-63) launched into the sea for the first time, the last battleship of her kind ever built. Harry S. Truman was a…

On day two of the government shutdown, it continues to cause headaches, including for a group of Missouri and Kansas veterans that flew to Washington. The…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 15, 2013: “They became what they beheld.” -- Edmund Snow CarpenterThe Atomic Age debuted in the…

In September 1944, just nine days before his 23rd birthday, 1st Lt. Don Nicholson boarded the B-17 bomber known as “Little Chum” for a run over Germany.…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 27, 2010 - There is an understated graciousness in the way Earl Szwabo, 89, describes the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 17, 2010 - "This sucker could go down." -- George W. Bush, explaining the banking crisis of…