Investigating World War 2 history live from Europe
LISBON, PORTUGAL — I sat in a lounge overlooking the runway at Humberto Delgado International Airport in Lisbon going over in my head the last 12 days that I had spent in Europe. It was the morning of April 14th, and I had spent almost the past 2 weeks on a mission searching for personal […]
Letters from World War 2: The Father-in-Law I Never Met
Haig Derderian sat in his M-4 Medium Tank in Herrlisheim, France, just across the border from Germany. It was a foggy winter morning January 9th, 1945, and Haig was fighting for his life in Company B of the 714th Tank Battalion. They were fighting the Nazis and this was World War 2. Crammed inside 34 […]