The Sultana.
The Sultana, overloaded, poorly repaired, burns in the night At the end of the Civil War, millions of POWs on either side were …
Month: September 2014
Random Images I Come Across
I come across a lot of pictures and sometimes I just share the photos. . Inside a C-17 on a TV shoot . …
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The Night Goldsboro, North Carolina Was Almost Vaporized.
. January 1961. The Cold War is on fire, effulgent, clandestine, and deadly. The nuclear Triad, the three ways we intended to deliver …
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More French World War I Postcards
Translation: Forget the Prussians. We Must Live Well In Our Own Home . . . . Our Dear Father, As You Conquer, We Love …
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La Binz.
They called her La Binz. Dorothea Binz (March 16, 1920 – May 2, 1947) was the SS supervisor for the women’s encampment at …
Knuckle. A Review.
Documentarian Ian Palmer directed one of the strangest, most fascinating films I have ever seen: Knuckles. Not unlike today’s much celebrated Rodriguez …
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The Deltaviex
. . SNASCO, the “Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales” built the Deltaviex as a supersonic testbed in the 1950s. They were looking …
The Fleetwing F4 Sea Bird.
The Fleetwings F4 Sea Bird was an amphibious utility aircraft designed in 1934-5 by James C. Reddig for the design company Fleetwings …
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Time To Revisit More Political Posters
From time to time we remember that Political Posters have not disappeared. They have in fact multiplied in social media. . . …
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The Aricebo Message.
Aricebo Whomever or whatever receives the message will live at the edge of the Milky Way, some 21,000 light years from our tiny …
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Humphrey Bogart In The Navy.
.Screen Star and romantic lead Humphrey Bogart joined the United States Navy in 1918 after the Armistice and sailed across the Atlantic …
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Empires rubbed up against each other in the aftermath of Salamis. Thus rapidly advancing military technology.
Alexander’s Empire Many consider the Battle of Salamis as the most important battle in the western hemisphere. Of course if Persia had prevailed, …
The Nashorn.
. In February 1942, Alkett arms of Berlin designed a tank destroyer the Nashorn. Nashorn means Rhinoceros. The 494 Nashorn anti tank destroyers …
Yekaterina Budanova. Soviet Fighter Ace.
Yekaterina Budonova, Soviet Fighter Pilot Posing In Front Of Her Yak-1 . Yekaterina Budanova was born in Smolensk. Prior to World War II, the …
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The Changing Face Of Warfare. Isis Fires Off Tweets And Instagrams In Their Jihad.
ISIS is an example of the changing face of warfare that I have written about here at Civilianmiliyaryintelligencegroup. Future war will not manifest as …
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