USS Hershel “Woody” Williams Sets Sail for her Inaugural Deployment
On Monday 27th July 2020, the USS Hershel “Woody” Williams set sail from Naval Station Norfolk to Africa on her inaugural deployment. The USS Hershel…
France to Rename Streets After African WW2 Heroes
Operation Dragoon was launched in Provence, Southern France just two months after Operation Overlord in Normandy, in August 1944. The controversial invasion, argued against by…
Korean War Vet Graduates High School at age 87
In 1952 Ed Saunders dropped out of school to join the United States Air force and train as a pilot. Now, sixty-eight years later, he…
US Senate Passes Agent Orange bill to Extend VA Benefits
The US Senate has approved by 94 votes to 6 to amend the defense policy bill to include hypothyroidism, Parkinsonism, and bladder cancer to the…
SS Richard Montgomery Contains Enough Munitions to Create a Tsunami
In August 1944, the US Navy ship SS Richard Montgomery was delivering over 6,000 metric tons of explosive ordnance for use in the Allied press…
Fake SEAL Pleads Guilty to Stolen Valor
Stolen Valor: Richard Meleski, 58, of Chalfont, Pennsylvania, has plead guilty to defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs by pretending to be a Navy SEAL,…
Vietnam Vet Receives Silver Star Over 50 Years After Heroic Actions
Vietnam Vet: More than fifty years after the battle Bart “Doc” Fabian bravely saved the lives of ten of his fellow soldiers, he was awarded…
Part Time Viking Stabs Girlfriend While Practising Battle Moves!
Viking fun? Benover, near Yalding is a picturesque low-lying village South West of the town of Maidstone in Kent, South East England. Once a proud…
Attacked by the Luftwaffe, Still Leaking Oil, Concrete Poured Into the Hull to Plug the Leak
Icelandic authorities are confident that recent work done on the SS El Grillo wreck will stem the constant leakage of oil that is responsible for…
British Beefeaters Facing Layoffs for First Time in Half Century
The iconic British Beefeaters, the guards at the Tower of London are facing layoffs for the first time in 50 years. John Barnes is the…
Washington Redskins Team to Change Team Name
The Washington Redskins American football team from the National Football League (NFL) made headlines when they announced their intention to change the name of the…
$220 Million in Gold Bullion was Recovered From HMS Edinburgh
Toward the end of 1981, a team of divers working at incredible depths in the Barents Sea found and recovered a king’s ransom in gold…