Barrett Tillman

Barrett Tillman


  • June 6, 2023

    D-Day, History, and Memory

    History is where you find it.        Certainly it’s found in books, and on television. But while we still enjoy the company of perhaps 150,000 Americans who served in World War II, they include veterans of June 6, 1944, a...

  • August 15, 2022

    August 1945: ‘An Eventful Month in World History’

    In a 1945 summary, a U.S. Army Air Forces unit on Okinawa described August as “an eventful month in world history.”  That understatement holds up 77 years later. Events had accelerated in the spring and summer of 1945.  Germa...

  • April 21, 2022

    Guadalcanal 2.0

    In Return to Paradise James Michener wrote, “In the South Pacific there is an island, dark and brooding.  It is not large as islands go, nor yet so small as to be forgotten when one has seen it.”      ...