PRIVATE SNAFU: Episode 6 - Fighting Tools Private Snafu was the title character of a series of American instructional cartoon shorts, ironic and humorous in tone, produced by Warner Bros., between…

Satellite photographs from the Chuuk Islands. (Credits: NASA) My dream history lesson includes a tropical Pacific island where I step off a beautiful boat soaked in sunshine the warm Micronesian…

The Fujikawa Maru is one of the lagoon’s most famous wrecks. Covered in lush coral this ship was built in 1938 as a passenger cargo ship that carried raw silk and…

Kiyosumi Maru in 1934 (Credits: Wikimedia Commons) Stepping off the Odyessy and descending upon our first wreck, the Kiyosumi Maru, feels like entering another world. The intact ship body, sitting 12m…

Another Lagoon favorite is the Hoki Maru due to her cargo. Construction equipment and vehicles are found in hold #5 including intact trucks, tractors, a steamroller and two bulldozers. The trucks have…

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92-year-old retired Air National Guard Chief Warrant Officer 2 Robert Hertel was reunited with the P-47 Thunderbolt during the Heritage Flight Training and Certification Course at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base,…

Looking over the history of the Second World War, we're drawn to certain high polish marks, like Normandy, that dominate our attention. Outshone in the chronicles is the less lustrously…

We're nearing the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Many of the men and women who fought that war, and the machines they used to win it,…

A bomber pilot held as a prisoner of war during World War II visited the Air Reserve Personnel Center to receive his POW Medal among various other medals, then took…