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.
Upcoming WWII series from Steven Spielberg & Tom Hanks inks star director
The director is also at the helm of the upcoming James Bond Film, “No Time to Die.”
This is the dancing Soviet soldiers Twitter account we never knew we needed
The spectacular work has come courtesy of the Twitter account @communistbops.
‘Apocalypse ’45’: Triumph and terror in never-before-seen footage of the Pacific War
“Apocalypse ’45” can be viewed in select “virtual” theaters from August into September.
Miniseries offers deep dive into misconceptions and complexities of Ulysses S. Grant
The miniseries premieres this Memorial Day, May 25.
Theodore Roosevelt captain followed in footsteps of ship’s namesake by writing bombshell letter
The aircraft carrier’s namesake was once entangled in a similar conundrum.
Hoarding during coronavirus: Not much has changed since WWII
Global pandemic-induced hoarding has yielded an industrial shift not seen since the global war phenomenon of the 1940s.
75 years after his last mission, WWII bomber pilot recounts ‘sheer terror’ of bombing runs over Nazi Germany
The Eighth Air Force suffered more killed in action during World War II than the Marine Corps.
A ‘Warrior Tradition’: Why Native Americans continue fighting for the same government that tried to wipe them out
Since 9/11, nearly 19 percent of Native Americans have served in the armed forces, compared to an average of 14 percent of all other ethnicities.
Crews of the B-17 Flying Fortress take to the sky in ‘Memphis Belle in Color’ documentary
The documentary premiers at 6 p.m EST Nov. 11 on the Smithsonian Channel, and will air multiple times this week.
