Lost in Training: The Final Flight of RAF Sergeant Emrys Ivor Lewis
While it is the brave Fighter Command pilots who flew during the Battle of Britain that stir the imagination and conjure up Churchill’s proud remembrance of “The Few,” there were many RAF pilots who were lost in action during the Battle of France or who died unceremoniously during training missions whose memory has faded into history. During the Battle of France more than 1,000 British aircraft were destroyed and more than 1,500 RAF personnel lost. In the months of the so-c
"A.C. Wedemeyer Here!"
When I was in graduate school in 1984, I took a class that assigned Michael Walzer’s book, Just & Unjust Wars for class discussion. It was around the same time that I took note of an article in the American Legion magazine that General Albert C. Wedemeyer wrote discussing the ethics of warfare. Wedemeyer was one of the last surviving generals of World War II and a man who was regarded as one of the chief planners of the D-Day Invasion. Reading that article provided me with
