They Were Expendable (1945) More like this >> Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews. Flying Leatherneck...
As William Jennings Bryan states “now can we complain, if in confusion one of our boats is sunk by mistake?” German U-boats had attacked American ships because the American ships had entered areas of war. Americans were warned by Germany though just chose to ignore their warning. Read ...
Like little boats Reply James Reply to Simon Crompton 2 years ago I agree that chunky shoes with formal tailoring doesn’t work but I’d encourage you to consider Tricker’s brogues in dark brown (not the garish tan) with heavy winter chinos, cords or denim, and a Shetland jumper ...
lagged in aerial torpedo capability in both the weapon as well as the attack aircraft coming into what would be WW II. Until later in WW II these weapons were bespoke and custom made so production numbers were low, in the hundreds for each country, not the thousands. This explains why Naz...
need to relearn how to do things that we could do 50 or 100 or 1000 years ago, because the systems that were in place then are no longer in place. This will make it difficult to do things that were at one time taken for granted–operating huge fleets of sailing boats, for example....
“The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is the most important American institution preserving the memory of the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and educating future generations about the importance of combating hate and bigotry,” the group’s national director, Jonathan Greenblatt, sa...
Erin Griffith nailed it in her Wired piece from a few weeks ago. Add to that context the fact that the big tech platforms, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, were used to hack the 2016 election, and you get the backlash. I think we are seeing the start of something that has a lot of...
and new technology would have enhanced the striking power of his U-boats. Possibly (though improbably) his scientists might have developed an atomic bomb. But, with certainty, Britain would have been hammered unmercifully by Hitler’s V-weapons, constantly increasing in numbers in the Pas de Ca...