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ACG WebOps (14 October 2007)Jim H. Moreno | October 14, 2007 | 0 comments | Print | E-mail
Welcome to WebOps, Armchair General’s weekly recon of links to military history news, articles, websites, and more. This month’s Military History Carnival has arrived, along with new revelations about Hitler and the Knights Templar, and still more military history news this week. Clicks away! NewsAt a Patriotic Freedom Day celebration Monday, the 170 students of Broadview School not only honored veterans, but they also did them the honor of listening closely to their stories.
The secrets of Hitler’s postbag revealed - Telegraph.co.uk The letters plot the rise of the ambitious young politician from town hall provocateur to the helm of the German state, and include messages from supporters as well as from Angela Raubal, his elder half-sister.
Fort Hunt’s Quiet Men Break Silence on WWII - washingtonpost.com The group of World War II veterans kept a military code and the decorum of their generation, telling virtually no one of their top-secret work interrogating Nazi prisoners of war at Fort Hunt.
Knights Templar win heresy reprieve after 700 years - Yahoo! News The Knights Templar, the medieval Christian military order accused of heresy and sexual misconduct, will soon be partly rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it had closely guarded for 700 years.
Spain to remove all symbols of Franco - Telegraph.co.uk Spain is to ban all public references to the Franco regime under a controversial Bill that seeks to make amends to the victims of the Spanish Civil War and ensuing 36-year dictatorship.
ArticlesThompson Files: Best military aircraft - Space War The most successful aircraft in the history of military aviation isn’t a supersonic fighter or a stealthy bomber: It is a propeller-driven cargo plane called the C-130 Hercules that has evolved into more variants than any other fixed-wing plane ever built.
Artist keeps Airmen’s legacy alive - Hattiesburg American The history of the Tuskegee Airmen will forever have a place in the halls of some the nation’s most prestigious military museums, thanks to a McComb native who now calls Hattiesburg home.
AnnouncementsHiatus for military museum - Kentucky.com The Kentucky Military History Museum, in the Old State Arsenal in Frankfort, will close temporarily for upgrades beginning Tuesday.
Opinion - EditorialGordon Brown’s Wrong Move on Iraq - The Heritage Foundation Retreat is not a word that features prominently in the lexicon of British military history. Over the last 200 years, Great Britain has waged more wars and won more conflicts than any other nation in the world. Help Armchair General by bookmarking to
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