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Anchored in Virginia’s York River on Oct. 17, 1922, a former Navy coal ship launched its first airplane. Lt. Virgil C. Griffin flew the aircraft, a Vought VE-7-SF, from USS Langley, the ship the Navy had rebuilt from the collier Jupiter…
Carroll County Mirror-Democrat HOUSTON, TX - October 17, 2026 - Daniel Whitford announces Decisive Moments: How Five Commanders Rewrote American Military Strategy, a focused study of how five American commanders turned pivotal operational choices into lessons about strategic adaptation, leadership, and lasting institutional practice.
David Dwight Eisenhower, one of Ida and David Eisenhowerâs seven sons, was born on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1890. Shortly after he was born, his mother reversed his first and middle names, to avoid confusion with his father. Dwight was born in…
Some naval careers end on a mudbank. Chester Nimitz’s very nearly did. On July 7, 1908, a 23-year-old ensign ran the destroyer USS Decatur aground while bringing her into Batangas Harbor in the Philippines. He reported the grounding himself, was relieved of…
The State of Pennsylvania is officially nicknamed “The Keystone State” due to its status as the middle colony of the original thirteen colonies, so it’s appropriate that the United States Navy would key in on this by naming a battlewagon…
“If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows not fear, I have never seen a brave man,” George Patton wrote in War As I Knew It, published in 1947, two years after his death. The…
On October 17, 1940, the Airspeed A.S.39 Fleet Shadower took to the skies for the first time. Developed to shadow enemy naval formations under the cover of darkness, the aircraft featured an unconventional four-engine design optimized for exceptionally slow flight and long endurance.
As young men, both Winston Churchill and Napoleon’s only son were certain that destiny had marked them out for greatness. Here, Bilal Junejo asks why one lived to save his country while the other died at 21, remembered today as little…
An unspent World War I artillery shell was found at a Paxton, Massachusetts, residence on Wednesday, prompting an emergency response. The Paxton Fire Department said the ordnance was found at a home and the shell had been passed down as…
The RPD was developed in the final years of the Second World War, when Soviet military planners sought a new automatic support weapon to complement the recently developed 7.62x39mm intermediate cartridge following the German 7.92x33 introduction during the war. Unlike traditional rifle-caliber…