World Wars & Depression (1914–1945)

2+ hour, 43+ min ago   (231+ words) Jones answered the captain of HMS Serapis off Flamborough Head on 23 September 1779, with his own ship burning. The line reaches us through one officer who wrote it down years later....

6+ hour, 15+ min ago   (293+ words) Eisenhower had enormous formal authority and believed cooperation could not be ordered into existence. He described leadership instead as persuasion, conciliation, education and patience....

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (496+ words) Teddy Roosevelt gave the line at the Naval War College in July 1897, in a speech he titled "Washington's Forgotten Maxim." The maxim was George Washington's, delivered to Congress in January 1790....

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (36+ words) Battleship USS Wisconsin came out of mothballs in 1988, more than thirty years after her last active service in Korea. Seven of her eight boilers were down when the fuel line to the last one ruptured....

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (232+ words) By Jason Robertson, Public Affairs Officer In recognition of National POW/MIA Recognition Day, the Syracuse VA Medical Center had the privilege of honoring 104-year-old World War II Veteran and former Prisoner of War John Shott, recognizing his extraordinary service,…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (350+ words) The first untethered balloon flight took place on Nov. 21, 1783, with the first military use occurring during the French Revolutionary Wars. A century later during the Franco-Prussian War, the French again deployed observation balloons—and when Prussian troops besieged Paris, they…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (63+ words) South China Morning Post Sealed in diving suits with mines attached to poles, Japan’s ‘fukuryu’ frogmen waited beneath the waves for an invasion that never came Kanade Hamamoto was one of many Japanese people who had never heard of them,…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (297+ words) ...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (491+ words) 'We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds,' Chester W. Nimitz wrote in 1946. U.S. submarines lost 52 boats in World War II and sank 1,314 enemy warships, 5.3 million…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (390+ words) 'A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guarantee of peace,' Theodore Roosevelt told Congress on December 2, 1902, asking for gunnery money: 'In battle the only shots that count are the shots that hit.' He had…...