Guns Ashore: The 8-Inch Turrets of USS Lexington (CV-2) on Oahu, 1942 In the tumultuous aftermath of Pearl Harbor, as Oahu braced itself for further Japanese attacks, an unusual piece of naval firepower found new life ashore: the 8-inch gun turrets of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2). Dismounted from the famous “Lady Lex” during […]
“I’m Glad He’s Gone—He Was Never Funny!”: Karoline Leavitt SLAMS Stephen Colbert, But His Brutal Comeback Leaves Everyone Asking—Is This the End of Late Night as We Know It? LONDON — In a dramatic turn of events that has set the entertainment world ablaze, political commentator Karoline Leavitt took a flamethrower to late-night TV royalty […]
USS Missouri Comes Home: A Battleship’s Triumphant Return to Norfolk, April 1951 April 27, 1951, was a day awash in anticipation and pride on the waterfront in Norfolk, Virginia. A thunderous welcome reverberated along the piers as the mighty battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) steamed home, her steel hull burnished by salt and smoke from war’s […]
Panzer IV Ausf. D No. 711 at Stonne: Fallen Steel and Sacred Ground In the spring of 1940, as war thundered across France, the small village of Stonne became a crucible of fire and steel—one of the fiercest armored clashes of the campaign. Among the charred wrecks still remembered in grainy photographs and haunted by […]
Thunder on the Pacific: USS Missouri’s Mark 7 Guns Unleash Fury at RimPac ’90 Smoke roiling skyward, a volcanic blast at the heart of steel and sea—the awesome power of battleship artillery, captured forever in a split second, is rarely so viscerally displayed as in a photograph of USS Missouri (BB-63) during exercise RimPac ‘90. […]
“I NEVER THOUGHT SOMETHING SO PERSONAL COULD BECOME SO PUBLIC… BUT NOW THAT IT’S OUT THERE, ALL I CAN DO IS FACE IT HEAD-ON…” – STEPHEN MILLER MELTS DOWN AFTER WIFE’S SCANDAL IS EXPOSED ON THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW When it comes to political controversies, few moments have been as raw, real, and explosive as […]
Saunders-Roe Princess: The Greatest Flying Boat That Never Ruled the Skies If you stood on the banks of England’s Solent in the early 1950s, you might have witnessed an impossible vision: a colossal silver seaplane dwarfing tugs and neighboring ships, looming out of the mists like something from a science fiction daydream. This was the […]
USS Nevada (BB-36): The Unsinkable Battleship’s Modernized Might from Above Among the armada of steel warships that once scoured the world’s oceans, few captured the enduring spirit and resilience of the United States Navy quite like the USS Nevada (BB-36). If you could gaze at Nevada from above—her decks bristling with guns, her hull newly […]
The Legendary B-26 “Flak Bait”: The Marauder That Refused to Fall In the skies above war-torn Europe in 1944, few sounds inspired as much trepidation among Allied bomber crews as the staccato thump-thump-thump of German anti-aircraft artillery—flak, as it was ominously dubbed. For the bomber crews of the USAAF, every daylight mission meant braving flak […]
BOMBSHELL STORY: Bry Burrows and Jalen Hurt Leave the World Speechless by Flying to Texas to Adopt a 6-Year-Old Girl Orphaned in the Recent Texas Hill Country Floods — Their Heartfelt Act of Compassion Stuns and Inspires Millions! BOMBSHELL STORY: Jalen Hurts and Bry Burrows Leave the World Speechless — Adopt 6-Year-Old Orphan from Texas […]
