9 JULY 1647 FLOTSAM, JETSAM, ROYALTIES, AND BUCCANEERS The Eleutherian Adventurers included about a hundred English Puritan gentleman and their households who obtained in 1647 a land grant in the Bahamas from Oliver Cromwell’s Parliament. Each member contributed £100 and signed Read More
4 JULY 1986 HOLIDAY JOYRIDE LCPL Howard A. Foote, Jr., enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1984 with the hope of an enlisted commissioning and selection for flight training. He was already an accomplished pilot at the time, having established several Read More
9-28 JUNE 1776 250th ANNIVERSARY VICTORY AT CHARLES TOWN The British evacuation of Boston in 1775 turned their attentions to the southern American colonies. To Anglican eyes, the origin of revolution in the northern mercantile colonies left the southern agrarian colonies Read More
22 JUNE 1955 COLD WAR DOWNING As the Cold War deepened and the United States became aware that the Soviets had developed their own atom bomb, we scrambled to install the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line of radar posts across northern Read More
17 JUNE 1942 AGENTS-PROVOCATEUR The waters off Ponte Vedra, Florida, were not particularly rough this dark evening of June 17th, 1942, certainly not enough to prevent four men from shuffling onto the deck of a German submarine. They worked quietly inflating Read More
12 JUNE 1948 WOMEN’S ARMED SERVICES INTEGRATION ACT The roles open to women in our WWII Navy were limited. The Navy Nurse Corps had been accepting women exclusively since 1908, and women had also entered service through the Navy and Marine Read More
7 JUNE 1981 ATTACK ON OSIRAQ Amos Yadlin dropped the nose of his heavily loaded F-16 straight down the “chute” out of the setting sun at 480 knots. The 30-foot arching dome of Saddam Hussein’s nearly completed nuclear reactor Osiraq (a Read More
1 JUNE 1857 THE “PLUG-UGLIES” Few may remember today that the January 6th, 2021, Capitol riot was not the first violent threat against our election process. The tempestuous 1857 Presidential campaign pitted the Democratic ticket of James Buchanan and John Breckinridge Read More
23-25 MAY 1939 SS-192 (cont.) It had been 26 hours since SQUALUS (SS-192) slipped below the waves off New Hampshire’s coast, only to be partially flooded and sink 240 feet below. The McCann Rescue Chamber had arrived lashed to the fantail Read More