Colonel Paul’s Corner – Strategic Air Command – Gone But Not Forgotten
The emblem was a shield showing a mailed fist holding lightning bolts and the motto was “Peace is our Profession”. The legendary Strategic Air Command was older... Read more.
Colonel Paul’s Corner – Concentration Camp
The “Concentration Camp” was not a Nazi invention. It was used by the British during the Boer War in South Africa. The British reasoned that if they took the... Read more.
Colonel Paul’s Corner – Our Nuclear Navy
The U. S. Navy was established on 13 October, 1775, making it now 250 years old. The Navy’s oldest warship still in commission today is the USS Constitution nicknamed,... Read more.
Colonel Paul’s Corner – A Higher Call
Second Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot, had flown in combat since 1939 both in North Africa and after Germany’s defeat there, in the skies over... Read more.
Colonel Paul’s Corner – The Manhattan Project
In August 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt received a letter signed by Albert Einstein. The letter was not written by Einstein, rather by three of the world’s... Read more.
Colonel Paul’s Corner – Some Never Came Home
I visited the Normandy American Cemetery in 2018. A fellow veteran and I stood a short distance away on Omaha Beach at sunrise, 6 June. One year before the big …... Read more.
Colonel Paul’s Corner – Titan II Our Biggest ICBM
In the 1970s the U.S. had 1054 land based Intercontinental Ballistic missiles. One thousand Minuteman and 54 Titan IIs. The Titan II was located in three... Read more.
Colonel Paul’s Corner – Serving with Honor
I once was assigned to a military office in Ohio where we were outnumbered two-to-one by civil servants. As required, we advertised a GS-12 vacancy to be filled... Read more.
Colonel Paul’s Corner – Elizebeth Smith Friedman – “The Code Smasher”
Her mother named her “Elizebeth” rather than the more common “Elizabeth” fearing people would refer to her as “Eliza”. Many of us have read the stories... Read more.
Colonel Paul’s Corner – World War II In Europe
The first American soldier killed in WWII was killed on 21 April, 1940, during the German bombing of Norway. The highest ranking U.S. soldier ever killed by friendly... Read more.