Operation Valkyrie was a Hitler approved emergency scenario that set up the continuity of government and plan for the military if a general breakdown of civil order should occur, such as the Führer’s death. On July 20, 1944, in an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg detonated a briefcase bomb at Hitler’s…
Errol Morris has posted the fourth of five installments of “Whose Father Was He?” — a riveting investigation into a photograph of three children found in the hands of the dead body of Amos Humiston, a fallen Union soldier, at Gettysburg in 1863. You can see him and his family in the 1860 US Census…
Today, in conjunction with the National Archives and Records Administration, we announced the launch of the internet’s largest interactive World War II collection. Some of the information in the collection has been on the site for a while, but this week we released two important additions, an interactive USS Arizona Memorial Wall and over 8…
It’s amazing what a plane can go through and still keep flying. This morning I was looking through some photos on the site and came into a section of photos taken in England of planes that had been damaged on missions, but still returned to base. Here are a couple of examples: Then I came…
The Footnote scanning team has been working in the vaults of The National Archives diligently scanning the complete WWII US Air Force photo collection (officially known as “Black and White and Color Photographs of U.S. Air Force and Predecessor Agencies Activities, Facilities, and Personnel – World War II”). There are more than 80,000 photographs of…
Over the past few weeks, response to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial project has been amazing. So many people have come to add their remembrances and pay tribute to family members and friends.Here are just a few examples of what has been added: George Henry Jourdenais William Thomas Perkins Jr Roger Edward Jozwiak Norman Walter Heck…
We got things stabilized after the wave of traffic that followed last week’s press release about the Vietnam Wall project and things went well over the weekend. We even ordered some additional hardware to help us handle the amazing response, but before we could get it and set it up, a feature story on the…
