6-16 OCTOBER 1859 SECOND FIJIAN EXPEDITION American traders plying the Pacific in the 19th century occasionally ran afoul of angry natives. Such was the case in the summer of 1859 with two sailors from a US merchant freighter. They were captured Read More
6 MAY-22 JUNE 1966 DODSON/ECKES ESCAPE On the 6th of May 1966, USMC SGT James Dodson was surveying for a road construction team in friendly territory just south of Da Nang, South Vietnam. While investigating a peasant hut about 200 yards Read More
6 JUNE 1918 LTJG WEEDON OSBORNE The US entry into World War I prompted Chicago dentist Weedon Osborne to seek a commission in the Navy Dental Corps, which he received 8 May 1917. He reported for duty 26 March 1918 with Read More
11 APRIL 2005 “INDIA” 3/2’S STAND AT HUSAYBAH The Marines of Company India, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 2, had been posted to Camp Gannon, near secluded Husaybah, on Iraq’s border with Syria. There they became accustomed to Read More
8 MARCH 1805 “…TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI” The Bey of Tripoli in 1795, Hamet Karamanli, was overthrown by his younger brother Yusuf. Hamet sought exile in Egypt where he remained for the next ten years. During this time the Barbary States, including Read More
4 JANUARY 1966 “LIVE” PATIENT Dr. James H. Chandler completed his residency at Columbia University, then under one of a series of Vietnam-era physician recruitment plans, reported for duty with the US Navy. He received orders to the Marine Corps’ Field Read More
TODAY IN NAVAL HISTORY TWO WEEKS LATER THE “APACHE” (cont.) Two weeks had gone by since a captured Marine had suffered a grizzly death at the hands of the notorious female Viet Cong sniper and interrogator “the Apache” (see story Read More
NOVEMBER 1966 THE “APACHE” The cruelty experienced by American servicemen at the hands of the North Vietnamese confounds verbal description. Such was the case in “Indian Territory” in the northwest corner of South Vietnam in 1966, nicknamed for its rampant Viet Read More
29 OCTOBER-9 NOVEMBER 1998 GLENN’S SHUTTLE MISSION At 19 minutes after 1400 this afternoon, Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center roared to life with the lift-off of the space shuttle Discovery (OV-103). COL Curtis L. Brown, Jr., commanded Mission Read More
21 JULY 1861 DARK DAY AT BULL RUN (cont.) Exploding Union shrapnel ripped through the Henry house striking udith Henry in the neck and flank and nearly amputating her foot. Her daughter, Ellen, had taken refuge within the fireplace and was Read More