Mystery has long surrounded the Stealth Fighter F-117 Nighthawk since its official retirement in 2008. Supposedly hidden away in a remote desert boneyard, F-117s have been spotted flying out West over the past few years. Now, the USAF announced, the F-117 is back. The F-117 Nighthawk was the first “stealth” warcraft, an
Marines of Co. C, 1st Bn., 2nd Marine Div., move out on a mission after disembarking from a Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 263 (HMM-263) CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter during Exercise Imminent Thunder, part of Operation Desert Shield. War shapes culture. World War II gave us slang like SNAFU, technical jargon
Popeye's father, Poop Deck Pappy (popeye.fandom.com) Like a pranking middle schooler, we asked our Navy veterans last Wednesday morning if they could tell us what a “Poop Deck” was. They could, kind of, with a little help from the internet. Poop decks, located in the rear superstructure of the ship, belong mainly
Thanks to Carl Rectenwald for passing along this great 2-min video of WWII B-17 and B-24 Ball Turret .50-cals firing at the Big Sandy Shoot in Stockton, California. Doesn’t the turret remind you of Star Wars? But the Millenium Falcon in Star Wars was inspired by another WWII bomber, the B-29.
Image from US Dept of Defense via history.army.mil A new film heralds the service of 855 Black women soldiers who comprised the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. Think they were mere mail clerks? The women of the ”Six Triple Eight” landed in England to hangars full of undelivered mail stacked
Image via National Interest You can call the 20th century the “Century of the Battleship.” Japan’s stunning defeat of Russia in 1905 relied on the world’s first use of these mighty warships, and Britain’s launch of the HMS Dreadnought the following year sparked an arms race that led to World
