This Is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied PhilippinesShepherd, William JohnMilitary History
In 1910, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Maurice Francis Egan proposed a trade of two Philippine islands and the Danish West Indies for Greenland. At the time, the Philippines were under U.S. control. The U.S. secured the purchase of the Caribbean islands in 1917. They are now known as ...
The South China Sea is in the middle of the maritime stretch running from the Eastern Indian Ocean to the Western Pacific.Footnote7With the Indo-Pacific concept gaining a lot of traction in the recent past, the importance of the SCS cannot be relegated. Given that the Indian Navy also opera...
To complete the tri-motor availability, there were Fokker Tri-motors and Ford Tri-motors. Navy pilot Malcolm Barker, who flew in FAW-4 out of NAS Whidbey Island, Washington, just before I did in 1946, provides a beautiful photo of the Ford Tri-motor below: Ford Tri-motor Rare photo ...
Another accident at sea involving a Navy ship was at the heart of a Supreme Court case decided Monday, ending the longest ever wait for the term's first decision. In July 1980, the USS Midway, an aircraft carrier, collided with a freighter off the coast of the Philippines, ki...
In 1949, having lost in the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Kai-shek and his followers fled to Taiwan, and the United States positioned its Navy -- the Seventh Fleet -- in the Taiwan Strait to prevent the mainland from reuniting the country. But even then, Taiwan never claimed to be a separa...
The presence of a US Navy submarine in the South China Sea represents aggression towards Beijing. Following the incident, the US Pacific Fleet informed that the USS Connecticut remained in a “safe and stable condition”, while it only provided a few details of the incident. It concluded that...
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that probably added a nice touch to your big day. Perhaps it is comforting to know that sailors aboard the Navy aircraft carriers out there are also afforded a similar treat. With over 5,000 people come over 5,000 birthdays, and the kitchen aims to cater to them all in a small but sp...