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Seaman First Class Calvin Graham Was 12 Years Old Aboard the 45,233-Ton Battleship USS South Dakota at the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 14-15 November 1942. Japanese Shellfire Killed 40 of Her Crew That Night.
19+ hour, 57+ min ago (267+ words) USS South Dakota lost electrical power, took repeated hits, and did not score. Twelve miles away, the USS Washington sank the Kirishima — the only one-on-one battleship kill of the American war....
45,000-Ton US Navy Battleship USS Alabama Was Towed Through the Panama Canal With 11 Inches of Clearance on Each Side. She Carried 9 16-Inch Guns Firing 2,700-Pound Shells, Earned 9 Battle Stars Across the Pacific, and Never Lost a Sailor to Enemy Fire.
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (717+ words) More than 3,000 workers in Norfolk built the battleship USS Alabama around the clock and finished in 30 months — nine months ahead of schedule. She was decommissioned after four and a half years....
The US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on this day in 1945. Haunting photos show what happened.
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1115+ words) On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb that weighed 9,788 pounds called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 5 square miles of the city, including 62,000 buildings. As many as 80,000 people are estimated to have been…...
Fiction Prize Winner Gerald Everett Jones Tells the Forgotten Story of WWI in the Middle East
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (171+ words) There were 2,281 press releases posted in the last 24 hours and 487,132 in the last 365 days. Jonathan's Journal: A Novel is available from booksellers now. The mysterious RFW. He joined the Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry and became an instructor in musketry. NYC Big…...
Six films that world leaders should watch, from ‘De Gaulle: Résistance’ to ‘Idiocracy’
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (167+ words) As a five-hour historical biopic fills French cinemas this summer, Monocle considers what other titles politicians could learn from. At a time of division and uncertainty for France, the title has chimed particularly well with younger generations who have found…...
Our World Changed on that Fateful Day -
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (280+ words) Twenty-five years ago, on September 11, 2001, the ground rocked, sounds of tremendous explosions reverberated down the endless city streets, and cries from the wounded and dying echoed down the dark alleys and byways. These are just minuscule descriptions of what occurred…...
The Pencil Problem
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (535+ words) On August 22, the Saturday after the talks fell apart, Mark Carney explained why Canada had left the table. One line in that speech has stuck with me. His government, he said, understood early on that America’s signature “was written in…...
JUST THE WAY IT IS: The day that changed everything...
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (597+ words) 1LT Jonathan Adams leads his military police company as it prepares to deploy. Judge-elect Jonathan Adams attended University of North Georgia. Upon graduation, he was commissioned a 2LT in the Georgia Guard. He was assigned to the 178th MP (military police) Company, Monroe,…...
A day we will never forget
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (179+ words) Pauls Valley Daily Democrat Heat Advisory from WED 12:00 PM CDT until WED 7:00 PM CDT U.S. Rep. Tom Cole This Friday will mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks â a day that changed our nation forever. It was a sunny September…...
U.S. pilot killed by A-bomb draws relative to Hiroshima | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (82+ words) August 22, 2026 at 07:00 JST Joseph Dubinsky (Provided by Robert Tatalovich) HIROSHIMA—An American man whose uncle died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima visited for the first time this year, retracing his uncle’s final days and imagining how his life ended…...