Nearly 6,000 came off the assembly line during WWII and most went to serve in American hands across the Navy and Marines (SBD) and Army (as the A-24 Banshee). However, the Royal New Zealand Air Force fielded a whole squadron (No. 25) of SBDs and post-war Chile, Mexico, and Morroc...
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Northerners had invested heavily in an expansive and varied transportation system that included canals, roads, steamboats, and railroads; in financial industries such as banking and insurance; and in a large communications network that featured inexpensive, widely available newspapers, magazines, and book...
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PT-305. Other PT boats were equipped with Oldsmobile 37mm cannons. The AC Spark Plug and Frigidaire Divisions of GM built .50 caliber machine guns. This Higgins Industries-built 78 foot PT boat is the only World War Two combat veteran still in existence. The author's photo was taken in ...
In March 1942, MacArthur, his family and his staff left nearby Corregidor Island in PT boats and escaped to Australia, where MacArthur became Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area. Upon his arrival, MacArthur gave a speech in which he famously promised "I shall return" to the Philippines. ...
Author: Robert K. Harmuth
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USS Fletcher (DD-445) was the lead ship of her namesake class of destroyers, of which 175 were built during WWII, and she went on to a long and distinguished service career. Her balanced form as well as details such as her 5-inch DP gun turrets, quintuple torpedo launchers, twin...
Fast-forwarding As I said, today's methods of communication seem surreal to a WWII vet. They're a far cry from the handwritten letter. In my research for this article, however, I expected the opposite to be true; that the military would have some kind of specially engineered machines with...