Month: May 2013
The Jets of WW2 – The War Ended Before These Experimental Warplanes Could See Action
“During the conflict’s final months, American, German, British and other air forces were already preparing to unleash whole fleets of cutting-edge jet propelled fighters and bombers against their enemies.” HAD THE Second World War continued…
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Pirates – America’s 200-Year War Against Sea-Going Cutthroats
“U.S. warships have been mixing it up with rogues, freebooters, privateers for more than 200 years. Consider these famous (and not-so-famous) encounters.” ON APRIL 12, 2009, the American destroyer USS Bainbridge made headlines when it…
Living History — Twilight Artillery Duel in Niagara
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO tomorrow, American forces invaded Canada at Niagara. The defenders, some militia and a small detachment of British redcoats, were quickly overwhelmed by the the onslaught and quickly abandoned their garrison at…
Death From Above – Inside Japan’s Secret Balloon Bomber Campaign Against North America
“For months the War Department knew that the continent’s airspace was being invaded regularly by strange automated bomb-dropping balloons – they just weren’t reporting it.” TO THOSE ENJOYING lunch in an idyllic picnic ground in…
The Tornado That Saved America
As the residents of Moore, Oklahoma recover from the deadly mile-wide twister that tore through the small community Monday afternoon, one is reminded of how at least one tornado might have actually saved the United…
The Cold War Heats Up – New Documents Reveal the “Able Archer” War Scare of 1983
Two years before the rise to power of Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and six years prior the fall of the Berlin Wall, relations between Washington and Moscow were as brittle as ever. Following an era…
