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Cold War, Rights & Culture (1945–1991)
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Drebbel's submarine: Radical 1620 invention the Royal Navy dismissed as a novelty
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (200+ words) Montevideo, October 12th 2026 - 07:20 UTC The British Navy did not see the military value in Drebbel's invention, instead dismissing it as more of a spectacle than a weapon. In 1620, Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel built the world's first operational, navigable submarine while working…...
On 12 July a Submarine the Royal Navy Sold to Canada for £1 Fired a Torpedo That Sank a Decommissioned US Navy Ticonderoga-class Cruiser and Made Military History
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1089+ words) This is the full account of how a boat Britain could not find a use for came to fire the shot that killed her. Mobile Bay was the seventh Ticonderoga-class cruiser, ordered in January 1982, laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding in…...
Even according to Adolf Galland, Spitfire Mk.XIV (not P-51D) was the best WWII piston-engined fighter in Europe. Here’s why.
15+ hour, 25+ min ago (569+ words) The Mk.XIV was the most important of the Griffon powered Spitfires, and the only one to see significant wartime service. Only 957 production Mk.XIVs were built. It was the first Spitfire in large-scale production with the V-12 Rolls Royce Griffon…...
25th Infantry Division marks 85th anniversary at Schofield
22+ hour, 34+ min ago (890+ words) PETER BANNISTER / U.S. ARMY Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Van Antwerp and Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Eilers, the command team for the 25th Infantry Division and U.S. Army Hawaii, led soldiers on Thursday during a division run at Schofield Barracks. The event commemorated the 85th anniversary…...
GU272 Descendant Joseph Stewart asks for inclusion of the Descendants in the Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation Initiative, September 1, 2016 | Georgetown University Library
22+ hour, 21+ min ago (57+ words) Join the Library as we celebrate our 230th anniversary! Offline Chat with Special Collections or email us at [email protected] For more information about any of these items, or to request a transcription of text in any of the images, please email…...
These massive concrete arrows once guided pilots across Kansas
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (289+ words) Before GPS-guided jets across the United States, pilots used a lo-fi navigation tool: massive concrete arrows dotting the countryside, pointing prop plane pilots between New York and San Francisco. Begun in the 1920s and known as the Transcontinental Airmail Route, the…...
Bat 21 Bravo: The Golf-Course Code That Saved Iceal Hambleton
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (680+ words) by Connor Kerr | Oct 10, 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 comments Lieutenant Colonel Iceal Hambleton was 53 years old, a navigator with a lifetime in the Air Force behind him and a love of golf. On Easter Sunday, 2 April 1972, he was also…...
Francis Gary Powers: The U-2 Shot Down Over the Soviet Union
1+ week, 2+ day ago (658+ words) by Joseph Duncan | Sep 28, 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 comments He never made it. Near Sverdlovsk, a Soviet S-75 surface-to-air missile, known to NATO as the SA-2 Guideline, exploded close enough to wreck his aircraft. Powers bailed out, was captured,…...
US Navy Vs B-36: how Naval Fighters proved they could Shoot Down the Peacemaker during the Fight for Funding between the USAF’s Long-Range Bombers and the US Navy’s Super Carrier
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (237+ words) Conceived during 1941 in case Germany occupied Britain, when US bombers would then have insufficient range to retaliate, the B-36 was to be primarily a ‘10,000-mile bomber’ with heavy defensive armament, six engines and a performance that would prevent interception by fighters....
80,000-Ton Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Kitty Hawk Hit a Russian Nuclear Attack Submarine Moving at 15 Knots: Parts of the Submarine Stuck to the Carrier’s Hull
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (1396+ words) At 10:07 p.m. on March 21, 1984, USS Kitty Hawk was steaming south through the Sea of Japan at about 15 knots when the 80,000-ton aircraft carrier collided with Soviet nuclear attack submarine K-314. The impact sent a hard shudder through the American ship. Captain David…...