First “take a trip with The History Guy” starts today! In the Uber on my way to Lambert St Louis International Airport.
Did you know that the precursor to Lambert Field hosted the first International Air Meet in 1910, attended by both the Wright Brothers and US President Theodore Roosevelt?
In August of 1918, as the armies of Europe neared exhaustion, American troops of the 28th “Keystone” division were thrown into a nearly forgotten battle that fully represented the horrors of the War to End All Wars.
Of the vaunted ironclad warships of the US Civil War perhaps the mightiest and most terrifying was the confederate ram Tennessee. On August 5, 1864, she would be put to the test in the largest naval engagement of the war, an engagement that defined the divided loyalties of the War of the Rebellion.