by Kevin Burns | Feb 9, 2022
In 2020 the Netherlands will complete a year-long commemoration to 75 years of liberation from five years of Nazi repression. The Netherlands was occupied in May 1940 after five days of sometimes heavy fighting. At that time, the city center of Rotterdam was...
by Kevin Burns | Jan 15, 2022
Few community posts have as close of a connection to their namesake as Albert J. Hickman Post 460. A native of Sioux City, Iowa, he was only 21 years old and one of the youngest pilots assigned to VF-121 where he flew a McDonnell F3H-2N Demon. Fighter Squadron 121...
by Kevin Burns | Aug 10, 2021
Radiotelegraphy was the first means of radio communication. The first practical radio transmitters and receivers invented in the late 1800s used radiotelegraphy. It continued to be the only type of radio transmission during the first few decades of radio, called the...
by Kevin Burns | Oct 22, 2020
The Aeronautics Commission is one of the oldest in the American Legion. Aerospace, is made up of two components “Aeronautics” (aviation) and “Astronautics” (space). With the commercialization of space, this is becoming an important sector of the economy as more of...
by Kevin Burns | Jul 22, 2020
In the fall of 1918, U.S. Army and Navy medical officers in camps across the country presided over the worst epidemic in American history. During this time, The War Department operated approximately 40 airfields for aviator training, most were located near large...
by Kevin Burns | Feb 13, 2020
Aeronautics is one of the oldest commissions in The American Legion. After having celebrated our centennial, most of us know the story about how The American Legion was formed in Paris by service members waiting to return to the United States. Those service members...
