Parachute Wedding Dress

Claude was a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot whose plane was hit over China in 1944. He bailed out and landed safely, using the parachute for warmth and shelter while waiting to be rescued. After the war, he proposed to Ruth and gave her the parachute, suggesting she use it to make her wedding gown.Continue reading “Parachute Wedding Dress”

Selection, Assessment & Training: the IJN Way

From the old Weaponsman site At the dawn of World War II, Americans had extremely solid feelings of racial and national superiority. Indeed, throughout the war national propaganda featured propaganda themes that careful analysis would have shown were mutually contradictory: the Japanese were cunning, stealthy, and powerful; yet they were dimwitted, nearsighted, bucktoothed buffoons. These feelings wereContinue reading “Selection, Assessment & Training: the IJN Way”

History: Rigby

As we know, the Irish rifle team that traveled to America in 1874, and later, used rifles made by John Rigby of Dublin (for more information on those matches see The Story of Creedmoor and in the Historic Shooting Books article, select Irish Riflemen in America by Leech).  Subsequent to that time, Mr. Rigby moved toContinue reading “History: Rigby”