Inside Steve Jobs’ daughter’s ‘£5m’ wedding with rock royalty booked to perform, political A-listers

Inside Steve Jobs’ daughter’s ‘£5m’ wedding with rock royalty booked to perform, political A-listers The wedding has been described as ‘a multi-million pound fairytale’ British rock legend, 63, reveals wife, 38, is pregnant with their first baby together in romantic bump snap SHE was the Apple of dad Steve Jobs’ eye,  so when the tech […]

A port bow view of the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) en-route to recommissioning in San Francisco, California, 1986.

Steel Giant Reawakens: USS Missouri’s Return to Duty in 1986 San Francisco’s morning fog danced around the rugged shapes of Alcatraz and the Golden Gate as a legendary profile steamed through the bay. It was spring, 1986, and the port bow of the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) sliced confidently through the Pacific swell, her iconic […]

After the battle with the German battleship Bismarck, only three of the 1,415 men survive. Group shot of the crew of the British battleship Hood. People have argued that an aged out dated ship went up against the newest and most powerful battleship in the world (at the time). Others may argue that the results were foreseeable and inevitable.

The Last Stand of HMS Hood: Valor, Loss, and the Debate Over Destiny On a gray morning in the North Atlantic, May 24, 1941, the fates of two of the world’s most illustrious warships collided in a cataclysm that would echo throughout naval history. When the guns at last fell silent, the British battleship HMS […]

“You could see the sharks circling. Then every now and then, like lightning, one would come straight up and take a sailor—and drag him down.” On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis had just completed a top-secret mission: delivering components of the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima. While crossing the Philippine Sea, it was struck by a Japanese submarine. The ship sank in just 12 minutes.

Into the Waters of Night: The Sinking of USS Indianapolis and the Ordeal That Shook the Navy “We could see the sharks circling. Then every now and then, like lightning, one would come straight up and take a sailor—and drag him down.” — Survivor of USS Indianapolis A Mission Cloaked in Secrecy As July 1945 […]

1970 photo of an F-4 Phantom from VF-151 during a catapult launch when her nose gear collapsed, forcing the pilot (CDR Winton) and his Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) (LCDR Keating) to eject. The canopy can be seen in the upper left hand corner of the photo. The pilot survived; the RIO lost his life.

Tragedy on the Flight Deck: The 1970 VF-151 F-4 Phantom Incident The roar of jet engines echoes across the deck of the USS Midway as an F-4 Phantom II from Fighter Squadron 151 (VF-151), the “Vigilantes,” lines up for launch. It’s 1970, a tense year in the Vietnam War, and the carrier’s deck is alive […]

An A-4C Skyhawk of Attack Squadron 66 (VA-66), known as the “Waldos”, approaches the USS Enterprise (CVN-65), accompanied by the USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25) and the USS Long Beach (CGN-9).

Flight of the Waldo: An A-4C Skyhawk’s Approach to USS Enterprise, Flanked by Naval Legends The deep blue expanse of the Atlantic is momentarily pierced by a silver dart—a U.S. Navy A-4C Skyhawk of Attack Squadron 66, famously nicknamed the “Waldos.” Its nose points confidently at a horizon dominated by the awe-inspiring USS Enterprise (CVN-65), […]