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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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