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City of Anniston Awarded $750,000 Federal Grant for Anniston Freedom Center Restoration
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (540+ words) ANNISTON, AL — The City of Anniston has been awarded a $750,000 federal grant on behalf of the Anniston Freedom Center to support the restoration of three historic buildings located across from the former Greyhound Bus Depot on Gurnee Avenue. The funding,…...
Before Mothman, West Virginia’s mysterious TNT area was World War II explosives factory
3+ hour, 26+ min ago (1274+ words) POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Visitors searching for the legendary Mothman in the woods near Point Pleasant are finding the remains of a massive World War II explosives factory that employed thousands of workers and supplied explosives for American military munitions. Chris…...
Luxury liner with secret military past set to surpass ex-US Navy carrier as world’s largest artificial diving reef
6+ hour, 31+ min ago (1074+ words) Follow Stars and Stripes The former ocean liner SS United States docked in Mobile, Ala., where it is being prepared to sink off the coast of Florida in late November 2026. (Okaloosa County, Fla.) By GARY WARNER STARS AND STRIPES Published…...
1 North Korean Gun Hit 55,000-Ton Navy Iowa-Class Battleship USS Wisconsin in 1952. She Answered With All Nine 16-Inch Guns, and the Ships Beside Her Signaled 2 Words: ‘Temper, Temper’
23+ hour, 45+ min ago (1191+ words) During the Korean War, Wisconsin shelled North Korean and Chinese targets in support of United Nations and South Korean ground operations, after which she was decommissioned. It was there in 1952 that the North Koreans learned the folly of trying to…...
Spitfire XIV vs P-51D Mustang: Which Was the Better Fighter?
18+ hour, 53+ min ago (908+ words) by Max Grünwald | Oct 13, 2026 | Aviazione militare | 0 comments Ask a room of warbird enthusiasts which was the best piston-engined fighter of the Second World War in Europe and you will start an argument that has been running for 80 years. Two names…...
Richard Heyser’s U-2 Flight That Started the Cuban Missile Crisis
19+ hour, 24+ min ago (633+ words) by Connor Kerr | Oct 13, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 comments At dawn on Sunday, 14 October 1962, a single grey reconnaissance jet crossed the Yucatán Channel at 72,500 feet and turned north towards western Cuba. Its pilot was Major Richard S. Heyser of the…...
Soviet Nuclear Submarine K-278 Komsomolets Had an Escape Capsule That Separated as She Sank. Only 1 Man Inside Survived the Ascent, and 42 Sailors Died in the Norwegian Sea in 1989
23+ hour, 45+ min ago (817+ words) The Soviet Navy built an impressive lineup of submarines to counter those of its NATO rivals, notably the United States Navy. Soviet engineers weren’t just interested in countering the Americans, though. They often thought of — and even built — systems they…...
Carl Snowden: A memorial to Malcolm X and the importance of education | COMMENTARY
12+ hour, 20+ min ago (629+ words) On Wednesday at 11 a.m., history will be made. The first and only memorial in the state of Maryland honoring Malcolm X will be unveiled. This is the first time that a Muslim human-rights activist and an icon will be honored by…...
How a World War II Liberty ship became the MH-1A Sturgis, the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, generating electricity in the Panama Canal Zone from 1968 to 1976
16+ hour, 45+ min ago (1684+ words) Before it held a reactor, the hull that became the MH-1A Sturgis was a World War II Liberty ship, the SS Charles H. Cugle. In the 1960s it was converted into the world’s first floating nuclear power plant. From 1968 to 1976 its MH…...
John Browning designed over 100 guns, and his.50-caliber machine gun has been used in every U.S. conflict since World War II, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force says
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (1221+ words) Browning did not live to see most of that record. He died in 1926, and the heavy machine gun he left behind went on to serve for the rest of the century and beyond. Browning learned the trade at home. A…...