ACG WebOps (28 October 2007)

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Welcome to WebOps, Armchair General’s weekly recon of links to military history news, articles, websites, and more. Before delving into that huge bag of Halloween candy this week, read about the Conn sisters and soldiers of Somerset, Indiana; Erna Wallisch, grandmother and Nazi war criminal; and The Military Geography Project. Clicks away!

News

Medal of Honor ceremony at White House – Yahoo! News (video)

President Bush publicly honored a fallen Navy SEAL Monday by presenting his grieving parents with the Medal of Honor — and privately honored their sacrifice by wearing a dog tag they’d given him moments before.

Reserve tanker wing makes history – Eyewitness News 9 Greenville, NC (video)

The Air Force Reserve wing located at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in eastern North Carolina will be the first tanker wing in Air Force history with an active associate partnership.

Local Sisters Are Making Military History – kdka.com

Five feet tall, blond, blue-eyed and as sweet as they come… that’s not how you would describe your average military commander but there are two ladies in our area that fit that description and now they are making military history.

Civic illiteracy – The Winchester Star

Universities falling down on job

Historian tracks down evil Erna the Nazi killer – a ‘harmless’ granny in Vienna – the Daily Mail

Erna Wallisch, an 85-year-old grandmother, rarely ventures out, spending her days drinking coffee and being cared for by her family.

But the image she presents belies a dark past which has put her seventh on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals still at large.

Army Marks 50 Years Since First Vietnam Casualty – Army.mil/News

A wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of the first U.S. service member to die in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam Conflict was conducted Sunday at West Point Cemetery.

Replica Of First Sub Passes ‘Sea Trial’ – TheDay.com

The Turtle, so named because the 7-foot-tall, slightly egg-shaped ship resembles a turtle that’s standing on end, was built over the last four years by Frese, the technology education teacher at Old Saybrook High School, with the help of two retired engineers and at least 50 of his students.

Articles

Mass beatification revives memories of Spain’s War – Reuters

The Catholic Church is preparing to beatify 498 of its members killed during the Spanish Civil War, putting them on the path to possible sainthood but reviving memories of a conflict that still divides Spain.