ACG WebOps (22 July 2007)

Jim H. Moreno | July 22, 2007  | 0 comments  | Print  | E-mail

The Fort Campbell Don F. Pratt museum has collected a couple of sought-after pieces of history that will put the 101st Airborne Division on the "go to" list of places to visit military relics.

Museum gets rare vehicle for display - Jacksonville Patriot

The M422-Mighty Mite Jeep, known as “The Mouse,” was the military’s smallest Jeep. Made of lightweight aluminum, it was produced from 1959 to 1963 at the end of the Korean War and developed for helicopter airlifts.

Articles

Archaeologists dig for buried history at Bragg - Army Times

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — The longleaf pine forests on Fort Bragg where soldiers prepare for battle conceal more than the Army’s training secrets.

Kids charge into history - StarTribune.com

A Civil War Camp at Historic Murphy’s Landing taught kids that battle is scary, the military is hard work and the most frightening enemies are the ones you can’t see.

California Weekend Getaway: History Lessons Learned at Military Museums - La Canada Valley Sun

As a boy growing up in a small Central Washington farming community, one of my first recollections was that soldier in the framed picture that hung above my father’s roll-top desk. The helmet had four stars and the stern look on the soldier’s face was anything but friendly. Yet, there it was, my father’s prize possession, a photo he viewed so reverently that it maintained its prime location for several decades until my dad sold his newspaper and moved out of his office.

Hankering for history? These guys re-create it - mainetoday.com

School is out for the season, and Steven Eames of North Berwick is psyched about going in summer camp.

More accurately, Eames, a Mount Ida College U.S. history professor, will spend his summer break participating in a number of historical encampments that serve as living history examples detailing military life in the late 17th century and later.

Books - Movies - TV

Why Did Rome Fall? It’s Time for New Answers - History News Network

The epic scale of the Empire’s existence has always sharpened interest in its collapse, particularly that of the west, which ceased to exist on the deposition of Romulus Augustulus in 476. Since Gibbon — while some role has always been allocated to outside invaders — explanation has tended to focus on a range of internal transformations and problems as the prime movers in the processes of Roman imperial collapse. By the mid-twentieth century, causation commonly concentrated upon preceding economic collapse.

Blogs - Netcasts

The British Empire (Part 2) - Military History Podcast

The British Empire is the largest (14.1 million square miles) and most populous (532 million people) empire in history. It is the reason why English is one of the world’s most important languages, why 1/3 of the world drives on the left, and why much of the world uses the parliamentary system. Another testament to its power is the fact that one of its former colonies, the United States of America, is the current hyperpower.

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