Claire Barrett
Claire Barrett is the Strategic Operations Editor for Sightline Media and a World War II researcher with an unparalleled affinity for Sir Winston Churchill and Michigan football.
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First Black Navy SEAL, William Goines, dies at 88
Goines served three tours in Vietnam before serving five years with the Chuting Stars, a Navy Parachute Demonstration Team.
‘May the 4th be with you’: How World War II influenced ‘Star Wars’
One does not have to stray far to glean that the galaxy of “Star Wars” is rife with WWII-based allegories.
The Marine officer who saved 8,000 lives at the ‘Frozen Chosin’
'To me, it didn’t matter whether those were Chinese, Korean, Mongolian, whatever — they were the enemy.'
The Coast Guard’s only Medal of Honor recipient died rescuing Marines
When asked if he could go back and extract the overwhelmed Marines from Guadalcanal, the 22-year-old Munro reportedly gave a confident, “Hell, yeah!”
The man who made Belleau Wood — and the Marine Corps — immortal
Floyd Gibbons made history when his dispatch got past the wartime censor.
Biden says uncle’s remains never found during WWII due to cannibals
While the claim contradicts the DPAA report about his uncle's fate, Biden's comments on cannibalism in the region during WWII are not far off.
A child thought he’d found a rock — it actually was a Marine’s jawbone
A human jawbone discovered in the Arizona desert was recently discovered to belong to a Marine Corps captain.
His father never spoke of WWII. His flight logs told the story for him
Historian and author Howard Mansfield had vowed to never write another word about World War II. Until another one fell into his lap.
Meet the 700-pound pig who raised $19 million for the Navy in WWII
By war’s end, King Neptune had brought in over $19 million for the Navy — roughly $320 million today.
Last survivor of USS Arizona dies at 102
Conter went on to survive two shoot downs as a pilot during World War II and was later a pioneer of the Navy's SERE program.
