admin | December 6, 2011
Charles Dowd joined the U.S. Navy in January 1941, shortly after he turned 17. But he didn’t do it to fight in a war. “Never thought of it,” said Dowd when Missoulian photographer Michael Gallacher and I sat down with him Tuesday at his home in Anaconda. Dowd, a Pearl Harbor survivor, comes to Missoula [...]
admin | October 25, 2010
Oct. 25, 1923 Construction of the USS Montana at a shipyard north of San Francisco is halted by terms of a naval arms limitation treaty. The second American war vessel to be named after the Treasure State is more than one-quarter completed. Had she and the other South Dakota-class ships finished, the Montana would have [...]
admin | February 16, 2010
Great news! The 2011 Montana history conference will be held in Missoula, Sept. 22-24, 2011. This is the annual conference sponsored by the Montana Historical Society and this year, co-sponsored by the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula and the University of Montana. The tentative theme will focus on war and peace, acknowledging 2011 as the [...]
admin | November 7, 2009
If you get the chance, drop into the Veterans Day weekend program Sunday at the Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History at Fort Missoula. The program at Building T-316 starts at 2 p.m. and there’s no charge. This year’s program is a tribute to American POWs, and few have stories to rival that of WWII [...]
admin | June 11, 2009
According to Keren Wales’ blog, she returned yesterday to the prison camp her father was held in during World War II, this time with a new friend — 68-year-old Helga Radau — who has an amazing exhibit at the camp. Keren is bicycling and traveling by train through Europe, retracing the steps her father Ken [...]
admin | June 10, 2009
Keren, whose late father was shot down over Holland in WWII (“Recycling History …”), yesterday visited the German prison camp where Ken Wales was held from late 1943 until the Russians liberated him in the spring of 1945. She rode her bicycle to the town of Barth in northern Germany, getting lost along the way [...]
admin | June 8, 2009
Keren Wales of Alberton is tracing the footsteps and bike paths of her father, who was shot down over Holland in World War II and spent a year and a half in a German prison camp (see “Recycling History …” which appeared in the May 25 Missoulian). On Saturday, Keren blogged some exciting news from [...]
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