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In May, USS Texas fired blanks from her forward 14-inch guns during the final stages of her restoration at Galveston. The last time those...
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In May, USS Texas fired blanks from her forward 14-inch guns during the final stages of her restoration at Galveston. The last time those...
A carrier commissioned eight days after Japan surrendered launched a German ballistic missile from her flight deck, then flew F/A-18s against Saddam Hussein 44...
Six FV4007 Centurion tank prototypes arrived on the European continent for testing weeks after the Second World War ended. The tank entered service in...
The record preserves the letter of reprimand, the apologies, the broadcast, and the speech, in that order — and nothing in the documents announces...
As the most widely produced fighter plane of all time, the Bf 109’s odds were good that a goodly number still survive today, whether...
The A1B reactors give the Ford class roughly three times the electrical generating capacity of a Nimitz, using a simpler plant architecture. That margin...
The room laughed at US Army General George Patton, and the laughter was reasonable — no army that size had ever reversed itself at...
The simplest reason why the US Air Force keeps the B-52H around is that there really isn’t anything wrong with it and it can...
The prayer was written eight days before the Bulge began — commissioned against the Saar rains, already in a quarter-million pockets when the Germans...
Washington wanted "we shall return." A Filipino journalist had already explained why it had to be "I" — after Bataan, only the man himself...