The outbreak of the First World War saw the sudden and unexpected return of plate armour to the battlefield. With the exception of a few special units like the aforementioned FrenchCuirassiers,troops marched into battle in 1914 without any kind of protective equ...
Few Americans at the time even spent a lot of time thinking about theOkinawa Campaign, despite the fact that it left over 100,000 men dead on both sides. FDR died in the middle of it and the Germans surrendered, so the Okinawa Campaign, despite its carnage, got lost in the shuffle. T...
the story is never specified to take place in a certain time period, so the story could also some history of Okinawa being the invasion of the Ryukyu island (1609 AD). for the people that don't know what I am talking about, in 1609 the Ryukyu islands were invaded by the Shimazu clan...
His spirits were lower than ever late in the summer of 1944. His mother had died suddenly back in the States, and he was stuck in an administrative position where he could make no significant contribution to the war effort. He wrote a letter to the Midway naval base’s commander, Admiral...
In 1913, a sudden explosion of 340 tons of dynamite being transferred from a barge to a British steamship in Baltimore Harbor killed at least 50 people and wounded many more. In 1926, one of the biggest steam shovels in the world was destroyed, and its two operators killed, when it hit...
The Agreement was signed in 2014 and operates for 25 years, unless terminated by either side giving a year’s notice. Whilst the stationing of US troops in Darwin is the more visible expression of the FPA it also includes: Giving the United States airforce unimpeded access to Australia’s ...