In 1967, with coal-fired steam tugs being replaced by diesel-engined ships, she was laid up to be scrapped. But it wasn’t the end for the Portwey, which was bought by Richard Dobson, the assistant harbour master at Dartmouth. Along with a group of friends, he returned her to working...
Casualties of War Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey 84 votes Based on a true story, this harrowing film highlights the brutality and moral complexity of the Vietnam War, as it focuses on a squad of American soldiers who abduct, rape, and murder a Vietnamese woman. The film explores...
南北战争,又称美国内战(American Civil War),是美国历史上一场大规模的内战,参战双方为美利坚合众国(简称联邦)和美利坚联盟国(简称邦联)。这场战争的起因为美国南部十一州以亚伯拉罕·林肯于1861年就任总统为由而陆续退出联邦,另成立以杰斐逊·戴维斯为“总统”的政府,并驱逐驻扎南方的联邦军,而林肯下令攻打“叛乱”州...
Director Brian De Palma based his film on the real-life “Incident on Hill 192,” in which American soldiers did all those things to a woman named Phan Thi Mao. Casualties of War is extremely difficult to watch in spots, especially the scene where the woman is brutalized. Instead of portr...
History What nation suffered the greatest number of casualties as a result of World War II?Question:What nation suffered the greatest number of casualties as a result of World War II?The Second World War:The Second World War, also known as World War II or the Great Patri...
When Studs Terkel titled his 1984 oral history of the American experience in World War Two The Good War, he meant it ironically. Terkel’s book is full of accounts of G. I.s and civilians who could still, decades afterward, think of themselves as casualties. Thanks, however, to Tom Brok...
American invasion forces were launched from ports thousands of miles away from the landing zones, the longest such amphibious assault ever attempted. Even so, and even with German U-boats active in the Atlantic, no damage from enemy action resulted in lost operational time for USN carriers....
"American leadership is what holds the world together. American alliances are what keep us, America, safe," the president said. "American values are what make us a partner that other nations want to work with. To put all that at risk if we walk away from Ukraine, if we turn our ba...
All ships trading with Britain were seen as targets, including those from neutral countries such as Norway, Denmark and the United States. The targeting of American ships ultimately brought the United States into the war in April 1917.
Instilled from birth with his father's hatred of Rome and raised to be a leader of men, Hannibal became the greatest threat to Rome in its history. With his assumption of command, he immediately set out to subdue rebellious tribes in his rear with his eventual goal to invade Italy. Over...