Colonel of the Regiment

130th Engineer Brigade has a storied history from the time it was established in the U.S Army as the 1303rd Engineer General Service Regiment and activated on July 15, 1943 at Camp Ellis Illinois. The 130th played a pivotal role during WW II with campaigns in Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe and the Asian-Pacific theatre. The regiment was deactivated in 1955 and elements of the 130th were allocated to the regular Army. For a short time the 130th Engineer…

interesting future ahead of him. James McQueen McIntosh was to become a General in the confederate army, and fight not side by side with his brother John in the Union, but fight on the opposite side with his Arkansas troops for the confederate cause. Colonel James Simmons McIntosh, and Eliza McIntosh- Shumate were blessed with a son named James McQueen McIntosh who later became Brigadier General for the 1st and 2nd Arkansas mounted rifles of the confederate Army fighting in 2 battles Wilson’s…

Band of brothers is an accurate historical show that really shows what it was like to be in World War. The TV show is revolved all around the 506th regiment. The name of this young group of soldiers was called Easy Company. At the beginning of the movies you would have never thought what they would have become by the end of the movie. The TV shows first episode starts off at the soldiers. Training camp. The training is located at camp Toccoa. The leader of this young group during the first…

instructor in infantry tactics. Moore was sent to attend the year-long student course at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1956. After he graduated from the school, he was sent to the pentagon. In 1964, now a lieutenant colonel, he completed the course at the Naval War College. Moore was transferred to Fort Benning in Georgia and commanded 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry later to become a part of 11th Air Assault Division undergoing air assault and air mobility…

Scott’s article quotes First Lieutenant Oliver Willcox Norton of the camp 's 8th United States Colored Troop (USCT) Regiment as he described the enthusiasm of the black recruits to join the union "Our camp thronged with visitors...who wanted to enlist," he wrote. "There are hundreds of them, mostly slaves, here by now, anxiously waiting for the recruiting officer.” According…

the noses of the army and later moved to Norton Air Force Base with Jackson undergoing qualifications on Army Blackhawk helicopters for night operations with men who later became members of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. No one ever recognized Lt. Colonel Jackson MacKenzie, even though he did nothing to hide his appearance, using his real first name, actual unit designation on his shoulder patches and wore his army rank openly during aircraft…

island is not empty anymore, for now its population is three. Now resided by three of the worst people, Sarah from “Ah Love! Ah Me!”, Barett from “Take Over Bos’n” and Fear, the emotion that was just being felt in human form, from “The Rifles Of The Regiment”. These three characters possess qualities that will make surviving on a deserted island nearly impossible. Sarah, resident number one, may have not showed who she truly was…

Mary Edmonia Lewis Mary Edmonia Lewis known by Edmonia was the first professional African-American and Native-American sculptor, who earned praise for work that explored different themes from religious to classical. Her main focus was on all women who have struggled and suffered from her own personal experiences. She overcame many obstacles from a young child to an adult. She was born in1844 in New York and orphaned at a young age and was raised by her mother’s family. She attended Oberlin…

000 prisoners at the cost of 58 killed, 199 wounded, and 700 missing. But the situation was still perilous. Axis counterattacks had created a dangerous bulge in the center of the American line, the very point where the bulk of the 505th Parachute Regiment should have been if it’s drop had been accurate. July 11th, the second day of the invasion, was the Seventh Army's most hazardous day…

Rudolf Hoess (Höss) was a Nazi German Lieutenant Colonel and a commandant of Auschwitz. During this time period, the Axis powers were in war with the allied powers in World War Two. This essay will discuss Hoess’s early life and education, his life during WWII, his death, and his identifiers. On the 25th day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1901, in Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire, Germany, Rudolf Hoess was born his father Franz Xaver Hoess and his mother Lina Née Speck.…