by Kevin Burns | Mar 7, 2022
I recently received a message from the Department Historian, Fred Shacklett, as he had been contacted by a family member of Dr. Charles Curtis “CC” Wallingsford who had found a certificate identical to the one in the picture. The Department Historian found the...
by Kevin Burns | Feb 28, 2022
In 1927, the race for the Orteig prize became one of the greatest sporting events in all history. People around the world followed every tidbit of news that was reported on it. Often if there was no news, reporters simply made it up to sell newspapers. It was...
by caLegion Contributor | Feb 22, 2022
Beginning as of June 2021, I have been reappointed as the Amateur Radio Commissioner for Area 6 to the American Legion, and chair of the Amateur Radio Commission of the Department of California. You may be aware that the American Legion National Office maintains The...
by Kevin Burns | Feb 21, 2022
Development of modern stealth technologies in the United States began in 1958, when earlier attempts to prevent radar tracking of its U-2 spy planes during the Cold War by the Soviet Union had been unsuccessful. “Radar” which is short for RAdio Detection And...
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...
