A tug of war has broken out over a model of a Tyneside warship which will be auctioned in London today with an estimated price tag of up to £25,000. The model of HMS Marksman was built by the Hawthorn Leslie yard in Hebburn in South Tyneside, which launched the ship in 1915. The destroyer took part in the First [...]
The Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal [EOD] team safely removed a small World War II era ship-fired rocket from the Hagatna River Bridge construction site this morning. A back-hoe operator was digging a utility trench about 20 yards east side of the river when he found the old rocket about 10:30 am. The EOD team was called in, along with Guam [...]
An abandoned building severely rusted paired with broken windows and scattered scrap metal alone is eerie. The old airplane hangar at Bill Witt Park, which attracted visitors up to no good, was torn down a couple of years ago. But some guests might still be there. Corpus Christi Spook Central, and other Corpus Christi residents claim spirits called out their [...]
Heartless vandals have destroyed a Second World War memorial just days before Britain honours its heroes on Remembrance Sunday. The sick thieves stole a plaque bearing the names of those who died fighting in the Second World War from a war memorial in Brentwood, Essex. The shocking theft comes shortly before veterans and the public are set to parade through [...]
About 50 years ago today, Gordon Link was on a jet bomber flying slow orbits over the Aleutian Islands. He wasn’t really scared, though nobody would blame him if he’d been: if certain codes were given, his plane would cross the Soviet border, on its way to obliterate a Russian city. Did he know how serious the situation was? “Yes, [...]
It felt appropriate that my History Geek Column this month would revolve around Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. This story takes us before his days as an important officer and right into the heart of World War II, when he was working for British Naval Intelligence. During the war, it was difficult to crack enemy codes, particularly since the [...]
The U.S. Navy has had eight ships named the Enterprise. The first was commandeered from the British in the early stages of the Revolutionary War by Benedict Arnold, before the America even had a navy and before he became America’s most notorious traitor. The seventh Enterprise was an aircraft carrier and a mainstay of the Navy’s war in the Pacific [...]
This foundation of this book is tragedy. Two glider loads of Royal Engineers of the British 1st Airborne.. OPERATION FRESHMAN – The hunt for Hitler’s Heavy Water By Jostein Bergyld In the old days when the BBC could afford to show cricket test matches, if it rained they would have to show a movie to fill the gap while the [...]
Nearly a century after he was killed in action during World War I, Pvt. 1st Class Frank Durkee of Onsted was awarded a posthumous Purple Heart and World War I Victory Medal. While researching his family’s history, Durkee’s great-grandnephew, Ann Arbor resident Elijah Shalis, started the process of receiving the award by contacting U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg’s office. Shalis, 32, [...]
A huge World War II bomb uncovered near a busy runway at Sendai airport in Miyagi Prefecture was underneath a shield of concrete and sandbags on Wednesday as flights resumed, a government official said. A worker rebuilding drainage systems at the Airport—which was swamped by last year’s tsunami—on Monday uncovered the 225-kilogram bomb, believed to have been dropped by U.S. [...]
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