On May 13, 1916, the Lafayette Escadrille, an American aviation unit under French command comprised of volunteers to fight for France, saw its first combat at the Battle of Verdun. — May 13th is also the birthday of firearms engineer Theodor Koch (born 1905, died 1976.) Koch, along with Edmund Heckler and Alex Seidel salvaged tooling from the bombed-out Mauser factory at Oberndorf, and with it founded Heckler und Koch. — We are pleased to welcome our newest text advertiser, the Stakeholder Prepping Podcast. Fascinating stuff with some expert advice. Listen in! – JWR — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we … The post Preparedness Notes for Tuesday — May 13, 2025 appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.