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Army Maj. William Colby, with the Office of the Strategic Services, parachuted into Norway in March 1945 to lead the Norwegian Special Operations Group. Their job was to prevent 150,000 German troops from returning home to fight the Allies. “At about this time, the Battle of the Bulge had been liquidated, but there was fear […]
Get ready for off-roading. Infantry Marines are getting a four-seat all-terrain vehicle early next year to carry several days’ worth of supplies, evacuate the wounded and many more tough tasks. The Marine Corps plans to field 144 utility task vehicles to infantry regiments between February and April 2017, said Emanuel “Manny” Pacheco, a spokesman and […]
In the 1970’s a new form of warfare was emerging: international terrorism. Two counter-terrorist missions that America initially found itself unable to cope with were situations in which a terrorist barricaded himself inside a structure with hostages or when hostages were taken inside a tubular vehicle such as an airplane. While the Army’s premier counter-terrorist […]
(Continued from Part I) (Feature photo courtesy of the author (L) and Thomas Story (R)) (Dedicated to: Mr. Thomas Story) My parents did a swimming job of keeping racism out of our house. They had friends of all kinds, they listened to possibly every genre of music in existence. They made no comments, used no […]
It’s a confounding mystery of World War II: What happened to the 136 missing sailors from the explosion and sinking of the USS Turner? After all, the ship did not go down in battle or even in the open sea, but while anchored near New York Harbor in 1944, so close to the city that […]
We’ve all heard the story. Back in the 1960s, as the Americans and Soviets were competing for space (and global) supremacy, the United States supposedly spent millions to develop a pen that their astronauts could use in space. The Soviets, meanwhile, “just used a pencil.” It’s a classic tale used to criticize government spending and […]
A diver may have discovered a long lost atomic bomb similar to the one dropped on Hiroshima while searching for sea cucumbers off the coast of Canada. Sean Smyrichinsky was using a diver propulsion vehicle about 25 feet below the surface of the water near Pitt Island, a small land mass not far from Alaska. As […]
JULY 7, 2016 PACO CHIERICI 3 COMMENTS AIR FORCE, HISTORY, HISTORY, MILITARY AVIATION, WWII Fighter Sweep fans, This is an amazing story that came to us from a friend of FS. It was told following a visit to the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ. We were in Hanger #4 to view the […]
Now, it was long about time: we sat on the pool deck in neat rows and columns, shivering spiritedly, sucking in all available ambient sunlight like a Goddamned black hole (Brian Kimber sanctioned epithet). The skies became ashen and sober. Leaves, crisped and seared began to rustle as a whisper of vermouth wind swept them […]
Watch awesome chase plane footage of only the second flying B-29 Superfortress “Doc” over the skies of Kansas. “Doc” is a B-29 Superfortress that was brought back to life over a nearly 30 year period. In 1987, Tony Mazzolini, found Doc sitting in the Mojave Desert and launched a campaign to get the magnificent bomber flying again. […]
On July 9th, 1962 the United States launched a Thor rocket armed with a W49 thermonuclear warhead to an altitude of nearly two hundred and fifty miles and detonated it. It took thirteen minutes for the missile to reach its predesignated altitude before the 1.45 megaton explosion illuminated the night sky for hundreds of miles […]
The United States military is arguably the most formidable fighting force ever assembled in the history of the world. However, since the beginning of the war on terrorism and specifically over the past eight years of this Administration, it has increasingly drifted away from its core mission of defending our nation and more towards nation-building, […]
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