Frank Armiger
Soldiers in the Cold with the Sibley Stove
A Soldier’s Poem from the Maryland National Guard and Naval Militia Newsletter No. 21 April, 1940 As a result of thirty years...
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Frank Armiger
- May 13
- 3 min
“WHO WILL COMMAND THIS OPERATION?”
Ike Takes On Overlord By Joseph Balkoski The name of Dwight Eisenhower will forever be intertwined with the history of D-Day. But for...
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Frank Armiger
- Nov 1, 2022
- 3 min
"The Most Glorious Episode in Our History"
The D-Day Airborne Mission By Joseph Balkoski Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Nevertheless, in Operation Overlord the Allies...
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Frank Armiger
- Aug 22, 2022
- 5 min
WFBR: World's First Broadcasting Regiment
By Joshua Gamma, Museum Curator, Maryland Museum of Military History If you are a Marylander of a certain age, you probably listened to...
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Frank Armiger
- May 11, 2022
- 3 min
"He Who Defends Everything, Defends Nothing"
Rommel and the Atlantic Wall by Joseph Balkoski General Montgomery’s revised OVERLORD plan strove to ensure victory by relying on that...
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Frank Armiger
- Mar 2, 2022
- 2 min
Why the "Dandy Fifth"
Prior to the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776, General William Smallwood’s Regiment composed in a large part of the sons of the...
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Frank Armiger
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
“A BODYGUARD OF LIES”
Operation Fortitude Fools the Germans by Joseph Balkoski By the third day of the Tehran summit, code-named “Eureka,” that trinity of...
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Frank Armiger
- Aug 24, 2021
- 3 min
“LIKE A GOD FROM OLYMPUS”
Montgomery Tackles Overlord by Joseph Balkoski On New Year’s Day, 1944, the two most famous Englishmen of their day drove north toward...
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Frank Armiger
- Apr 16, 2021
- 3 min
“WE’RE GONNA DIE!”
Exercise Tiger by Joseph Balkoski In The Guns at Last Light, page 191, Rick Atkinson depicted the August 5, 1944, death of Rear Admiral...
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Frank Armiger
- Jan 12, 2021
- 5 min
The Maryland Line Saves Washington's Army
In the closing days of June 1776, British troops under General William Howe, having evacuated Boston, sailed into New York harbor. In...
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Frank Armiger
- Sep 12, 2020
- 8 min
Remembering the Maryland Military at the Battle of Antietam on its 158th Anniversary
On September 17, 1862, the bloodiest day of any American war occurred on the soil of the state of Maryland near the village of Sharpsburg...
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Frank Armiger
- Jul 5, 2020
- 3 min
“I COULD CHEERFULLY SHOOT THE OFFENDER”
Overlord Security Measures by Joseph Balkoski In April 1944 the restaurant in Claridge’s, the renowned Mayfair hotel just blocks away...
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