The French relied on America for logistical support after the Normandy invasion. From pork free rations for Muslim soldiers to French-English dictionaries. Americans were bringing …
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WASHINGTON (NNS) — The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic brought an invisible enemy to our shores and changed the way we operate as a Navy. …
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Its nomenclature notwithstanding, the DUKW was one of the most successful collaborations between the US government weapons procurement mission and competent scientific and engineering experts. …
From Rick Atkinson’s Day of Battle. “Ships wallowed like treasure laden galleons on the Spanish Main. The American convoys alone carried more than …
The Amazing Cluster That Invading Sicily Became Read More »
On the way to Normandy, the British were more than generous, adding to the US food allotment 240,000,000 pounds of potatoes, 2.4 million …
The saying in England was that the problem with Americans is that they are “over sexed, overfed and over here.” My father served …
This book is brilliant as it paints pictures we rarely imagine. He talks about immensely altered landscape of Europe in the last year of …
In 1955 it was engineers at Bell Aircraft that received a US government contract to develop at short take-off and landing four engine Mach 2 …
A-5 Vigilante XF-108 Concept To the Cold War aviation engineers, speed was everything. So it is not surprising that as early as 1949 the USAF …
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Nothing paints a struggle quite like taking a moment to look at casualty and lost lists. There was never a more brutal fight between …
The Slug Fest That Began At Pearl Harbor. Read More »
5,200 in Iraq 2,000 in Syria 28,000 in South Korea 60,000 U.S. Central Command area of operations and aboard ships. 710 in Kosovo. 3,100 …
Deployed During Christmas Read More »
Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, said at the Washington Monument on October 5, 1945: “The Japanese had, in …
Chester Nimitz Also Thought The Atom Bomb Was Not Why Japan Surrendered. Read More »
Admiral William D. Leahy, the President’s Chief of Staff of both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Combined U.S.-U.K. Chiefs of Staff said: …
Admiral William D. Leahy Thought The Atomic Bomb Was Unnecessary. Read More »
The Surrender Deck Where Japan Submitted To The Authority Of The Allies Officer’s Mess Captain’s Quarters 16 Inch Guns Facing Aft …
CNET Shares Magnificent Photos Of The World War II Battleship Missouri Read More »
From the very beginning of my interest in aviation and military history, I have always been delighted with the notion of cross Atlantic travel …
Blimps saw Quite A Bit Of Activity In World War II Read More »
