Tag Archives: U.S. Army

The B-25 Empire State Building Collision

Posted on July 28, 2013 by swabby429

The formal end of the second World War was less than two months away.  Saturday morning, July 28, 1945, Lieutenant Colonel William Smith, Jr. was on a routine transport mission. Smith was piloting an Army B-25 bomber over New York … Continue reading →

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Cheyenne Autumn

Posted on September 3, 2012 by swabby429

If you only read one book about the diaspora of the North American Plains Indians, I think it should be Mari Sandoz’s Cheyenne Autumn.  The telling of the 1,500 mile trek by a band of a few hundred Cheyenne people … Continue reading →

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