Articles
Remember the Alamo!
A pivotal event in the Texas Revolution was the Battle of the Alamo fought in 1836. Having driven out all Mexican troops in earlier months from Mexican Texas about a hundred Texians were garrisoned at [Read more]
Articles by Lars McKie
Crestwood Oral History Project
Wilbur S. Bryans
Wilbur Showell Bryans was born April 3, 1922 in Sullivan Township, Ontario. Assigned to the Royal Canadian Medical Corps and stationed in Basingstoke, UK, he witnessed many horrific injuries sustained through combat. Growing up on [Read more]
Cyril Devaux
The journey started 29 May 1943
Cyril Devaux‘s journey to join the war effort started in 1943, like many others, eager to do his part, and surely impacted by the war going on in the Caribbean. There is a common misconception [Read more]
Tribute Forum
Rev Robert Alexander Simmons
Ordained in 1932 Irish born Rev. Robert Alexander Simmons deployed to the Mediterranean with the 64th Medium Regiment in 1941. On the island of Crete his regiment faced the huge German airborne invasion, Operation Mercury, [Read more]
Articles
A greeting from AirmenDK
The website Airmen.dk has been online since 2007 providing information on allied airmen and aircraft shot down over Denmark during WWII. It currently holds data on 463 aircraft and 3089 airmen shot down over occupied [Read more]
In the media
Asahi Shimbun article by Mayuri Ito
The project is most honoured by the recent article published in The Asahi Shimbun (Asahi News) by journalist Mrs Mayuri Ito. The paper is not only one of the oldest but also among the four [Read more]
Veterans Breakfast Club
Admiral Bull Halsey’s Steward, Conrad Castillo on VBC Happy Hour
Project webmaster and researcher Lars McKie joined up with Jeff Mossinghof to speak about his grandfather on a VBC session. “Conrad Castillo was a Filipino Steward in the US Navy during World War II assigned [Read more]
Cyril Devaux
Cuban convergence
As Nick embarked on his journey towards Japan, escorting The Log Book to its next appointment, it was via a detour to Jamaica. The itinerary took them from St Lucia to Montego Bay via Fort [Read more]
Articles
“Memoirs of a Kamikaze”
On 21 January 2022 Japanese veteran fighter pilot Kazuo Odachi added his name to a page from the log book. Odachi was only a teenager when he deployed to the Philippines and Taiwan as a [Read more]
Articles
“Per ardua ad astra” and Tiger Moth N9151
“Per ardua ad astra” is a Latin phrase meaning “through adversity to the stars”. Wikipedia says it was the Royal Canadian Air Force’s motto until 1968, when it was changed to “sic itur ad astra”, [Read more]