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At 1:30 a.m. on January 17, 1991, USS Missouri, laid down in 1941, fired the first battleship Tomahawk of the war. Over five weeks...
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At 1:30 a.m. on January 17, 1991, USS Missouri, laid down in 1941, fired the first battleship Tomahawk of the war. Over five weeks...
“Veni, vidi, vici” — I came, I saw, I conquered — is how Julius Caesar reported his war against Pharnaces II of Pontus in...
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why,” the line credited...
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals,” Winston Churchill said, and...
On July 28, 1976, SR-71 61-7958 set the absolute speed record that still stands, 2,193.2 mph, about Mach 3.3, while a second Blackbird set...
“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the...
On January 25, 1966, Lockheed test pilot Bill Weaver was cruising an SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3.18 and 79,000 feet with the center of...
“To be prepared for war is the most effectual means to preserve peace,” George Washington told Congress on January 8, 1790. In July 1897,...
“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of...
“You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided,” Gen. George S. Patton said, and he lived it: raised...