More World War II Numbers
World War II ended with the Japanese surrender on September 2nd, 1945. That made it six years and a day long. It involved sixty nations …
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Yalta
The conference at Yalta was a chance for the inheritors of power after World War II to decide how to govern. It was obviously one …
US Supplied The French After Normandy
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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Chief of Naval Operations Posts to US Navy Regarding COVID-19
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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The DUKW
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. …
The Amazing Cluster That Invading Sicily Became
From Rick Atkinson’s Day of Battle. “Ships wallowed like treasure laden galleons on the Spanish Main. The American convoys alone carried more than …
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D-Day Details.
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 …
Reading from The Guns At last Light. The War in Western Europe 1944- 1945, by Rick Atkinson. Part II.
The saying in England was that the problem with Americans is that they are “over sexed, overfed and over here.” My father served …
Reading from The Guns At last Light. The War in Western Europe 1944- 1945, by Rick Atkinson.
This book is brilliant as it paints pictures we rarely imagine. He talks about immensely altered landscape of Europe in the last year of …
The Bell D-188
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 …
Developing The XF-108 Rapier
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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The Slug Fest That Began At Pearl Harbor.
Nothing paints a struggle quite like taking a moment to look at casualty and lost lists. There was never a more brutal fight between …
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Deployed During Christmas
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 …
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Chester Nimitz Also Thought The Atom Bomb Was Not Why Japan Surrendered.
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 …
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