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Welcome to WebOps, Armchair General’s first website column! Each week WebOps links you to the best military history news and websites making the headlines throughout the Internet. Just how does Heddy Lamar tie into military history? What event in military history celebrated its 225th anniversary? What two British Army elements are still making history today? These answers, and much more, can be found in this week’s links. Clicks away!

Sunday

Patricia Poist is both a reporter and military history buff who recently took a flight in the B-25 Bomber “Tondelayo”. I think she does a great job in bringing many aspects of military history surrounding the B-25 into her story.

Under heroes’ wings (Lancaster Newspapers – Lancaster,PA,USA)

Rabbi Francis Nataf ponders what he calls a World War II ‘error’, wondering why the Allies didn’t extend the Maginot Line in France "on its border with Germany to also include France’s border with Belgium."

Jewish Maginot Lines (Arutz Sheva – Israel National News)

American author-adventurer James Campbell recently walked the length of the Kokoda Trail as research for a book and film set to be released next year.

On the trail of the Ghost Mountain Battalion (The National – Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)

Monday

American Revolutionary War reenactors end the three-day event "The March to Victory: The Crossing at King’s Ferry" on its 225th anniversary.

A wet but spirited march in Suffern (The Journal News.com – Westchester, NY, USA)

This article, Quicktime video report and photo gallery document the 102nd Military History Detachment (Kansas Army National Guard) during their work in the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina a year ago.

Kansas Guardsmen remember Hurricane Katrina, one year later (49abcnews.com – Topeka, KS, USA)

Tuesday

Military historians and the public of New Mexico are $100,000 closer to completing the New Mexico Museum of Military History, to be located in Rio Rancho.

State will help fund city military museum (Rio Rancho Observer – Rio Rancho, NM, USA)

Medal of Honor recepient Sergeant First Class Paul R. Smith had another grand honor bestowed upon him with the recent dedication of the new Paul R. Smith Middle School in Holiday, Florida.

Middle school dons name of Medal of Honor recepient (Army News Service)

Wednesday

Residents in and around Prince Edward Island, Canada, will be treated to seeing the Canadian Forces Snowbirds at this years’ four-day Airshow on the Bay and Salute to the Military, scheduled for September 14-17.

Summerside airshow salutes troops overseas (The Guardian – Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada)

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