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