This Is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied PhilippinesShepherd, William JohnMilitary History
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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 ...
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...
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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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Third, surf mobility seems to have been rejiggered a bit–previously the objective was to swim at speed in a sea with wave heights of three feet. Now the objective has been dumbed down to two feet, while there seems to be somewhat more interest in the MPC being able to handle a plungi...