En ce 70ème anniversaire de la fin de la Deuxième guerre mondiale, l’océan Pacifique évoque surtout la confrontation des forces aéronavales nippones et
Document Source: This archive covers the operations of a provisional OSS Platoon, in a series of night landings made on the Arakan Coast of Burma during the per
On August 23, 1914, Japan declared war on Germany when the latter failed to respond to an ultimatum Tokyo had issued on August 15.
The second installment of Pacific Theater images from the LIFE archive. Be sure to click on the images to see the details. The shots of the fighters over the ocean really blew me away. I came across a lot of images of "deck scenes," showing the solders en route to their next engagement. It looked ho
Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters warming up on the flight desk of USS Cowpens (CVL-25), circa January 1944. The carrier was operating with Task Group 58.3 during raids on the Marshall Islands.
Today in USMC History: 1930 - Lieutenant Lewis “Chesty” Puller earns first of five Navy Crosses chasing Sandino guerrillas in Nicaragua.
In the United States, generations were taught that Japan would never have surrendered so quickly without use of the atomic bomb and that victory would have required a bloody invasion of the Japanese mainland, costing hundreds of thousands of lives. Japanese students were generally taught a very different narrative.
Weapons of War - By Mark McConville Vivid colour images show a 6th Airborne Division sniper on patrol in the Ardennes, a soldier using a
The second installment of Pacific Theater images from the LIFE archive. Be sure to click on the images to see the details. The shots of the fighters over the ocean really blew me away. I came across a lot of images of "deck scenes," showing the solders en route to their next engagement. It looked ho
Description: USS Essex (CV-9) Scene on the flight deck, looking aft from the carrier's island during her shakedown cruise, 20 March 1943. Planes parked on deck are F6F-3 fighters (in foreground, with wings folded) and SBD-4 scout bombers. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Catalog #: 80-G-K-698
