When he retired from the military in 2006, the BBC said he was “one of the most widely known British generals since World War II.” The Telegraph, in its 2007 profile of General Jackson, noted that the prominent bags under his eyes, which contributed to a fearsome look — and to...
United States of America (1945-1946) Demolition Tank – 1 Built During World War II, US demolition crews faced the critical task of dismantling enemy fortifications and obstacles, sometimes under fire. They lacked a dedicated vehicle for this in the US arsenal. Various tools, like dozer blade ...
The war in Ukraine has touched almost every corner of the world — delivering death and suffering to Ukraine, an energy crisis in Europe, grain shortages in the Middle East and Africa, and compounding inflation across the globe. “One year later, Kyiv stands. And Ukraine stands. Democracy sta...
AIDS patient Deotis McMather, shown asleep in bed at San Francisco Generals AIDS ward, circa 1983. In 1981, doctors began reporting mysterious cases of rare types of pneumonia and cancers among predominately gay men in New York and California. The condition, which was later found in blood tr...
Hirohito retained his throne until his death in 1989 at the age of eighty-seven — forty-four years after the end of World War II. Since the publication on June 2, 2020, of The Oppenheimer Alternative, a few people have asked me, if the above is true, why they hadn't heard this ...
1943 US Army WWII 75-mm Gun M1897A4 Mounted in Combat Vehicles 116p 1943 US Army WWII ARMORED COMMAND field manual and gunnery 75-mm assault howitzer on motor carriage M8 149p 1943 US Army WWII Army Adjudant Generals Field Manual Army Postal Service 146p 1943 US Army WWII Bayonet 65p ...
BAMBER BRIDGE, England — The village of Bamber Bridge in northwestern England is proud of the blow it struck against racism in the U.S. military duringWorld War II. When an all-Black truck regiment was stationed there, residents refused to accept the segregation ingrained in ...
'A very remarkable people, the Zulu', the British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, said on hearing of a fresh disaster in the war of 1879, 'They defeat our generals; they convert our bishops; they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty'. Remarkable indeed, to have taken on...
Blacks in the Military Before Emancipation, generals were reluctant to put firearms in the hands of the enslaved and formerly enslaved, lest that spark reprisals and uprisings. From the nation's beginning, they expressed doubt that Black soldiers had the mental capacity, discipline or fortitude to...