My dream history lesson includes a tropical Pacific island where I step off a beautiful boat soaked in sunshine the warm Micronesian waters and descend on a coral covered ship that was part of World War II. This dream and these ships came to life for me during a recent trip aboard the MV Odyssey …
Shinkoku Maru My favorite wreck in the Lagoon, the Shinkoku Maru, has become a fantastically beautiful artificial reef. Pink and purple anemones can be found all over the top deck and schools of fish, big and small, have populated the ship. Sitting between 9 and 40m (30-135ft) the 152m (500ft) Commercial tanker was built in 1940 and before …
The USS Saratoga (CV-3), commissioned in 1927, was an Lexington-class American Aircraft carrier measuring 268 meters (880 ft.) in length and weighting 39,000 tons. Originally she was designed as a battlecruiser, but was later converted into one of the Navy’s first aircraft carriers during construction to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. During her World …
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When Japanese aircraft swooped over Pearl Harbor, dive-bombers were among the primary planes that devastated the harbor. These were planes that could dive toward and take out land and naval targets at lower altitudes than more standard aircraft. At a time when the accuracy of aircraft bombs was somewhat short of the 100% mark, they …
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The World War II crash site of a military plane carrying Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who was the commander-in-chief during the decisive early years of the Pacific War and was responsible for major battles such as Pearl Harbor and Midway, has been opened to visitors in Bougainville for the first time in more than five …
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Incredible story of a metal detector who found the dog-tags of a fallen World War II soldier, Frank H. Norton, and returned it to the family. Peter van Pelt from Grobbendonk, Belgium is fascinated by World War 2. Once in a year he goes metal detecting in the Ardennes but in October 2013, the war become …
Dog Tags of KIA US Soldier, Frank H. Norton, returned to Family Read More »
Upheaval, chaos and turmoil are all part of military history. It has been a privilege for me to write about men, machines and the fog of war in books, magazine articles and newspaper columns for 60 years — ever since my first paid contribution appeared in the November 1955 issue of Air Force magazine. But …
A new concept approach from ARGunners present you with a teaser of one of our favorite books and author, Nick Jacobellis’s – A Special Kind of Hero BASED ON THE SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR- Nick Jacobellis ContentsIntroduction ViForeward XiSome Additional Historical BackgroundInformation Xv1 The War Comes Home ToEast Hampton N.y. 12 Like Shooting Fish …
A new concept approach from ARGunners present you with a 130 page teaser of one of our favorite books and author, Nick Jacobellis’s – Controlled Delivery This should give our readers an excellent idea of what this true story is about and possibly make them interested in purchasing Book One and Book Two ,available at …
The grassroots movement in 1952 to make Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower president of the United States had a winning slogan, “I like Ike,” that carried the World War II general to the White House, not only because he had proven his leadership ability during the planning of the Normandy invasion, but also because he genuinely …
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