Jared Frederick stands at a memorial on top of Mt. Suribachi. He teaches history at Penn State Altoona and is the host of the new documentary “I Hiked Iwo Jima: A Virtual World War II Battlefield Tour ...
Jared Frederick stands at the base of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Frederick produced “I Hiked Iwo Jima: A Virtual WWII Battlefield Tour,” a documentary on YouTube during a visit to Iwo Jima alongside ...
The National WWII Museum in New Orleans is offering a fall excursion, “The River Seine to the Beaches of Normandy,” that features a lecture series by Alex Kershaw, author of “The Bedford Boys.” The ...
December 19, 2009: No one knows when the first battlefield tour occurred. Certainly in Classical antiquity veterans, tourists and professional soldiers are known to have sometimes visited places like ...
Last week, my wife and I were part of a crowd of more than 10,000 people assembled at the American Military Cemetery above Omaha Beach in Normandy to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day ...
Thursday 9th July marked the 30,000th Last Post at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium. Every evening since 1928, the iconic Last Post has been played by a bugler from the local fire brigade underneath ...
CASSINO, Italy – Members of various allies, staff and military branches of Joint Force Command Naples conducted a joint allied battlefield tour of five historic sites associated with the allied ...