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
11 JULY 1944 NAZI POWs IN AMERICA On this day, German POWs Wolfgang Kurzer and Karl Tomola quietly slipped away from the camp at Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, and headed north. They crossed the Canadian border where they found employment washing dishes Read More
6 DECEMBER 1922 THE “UNITED STATES FLEET” Since the Revolution, our national security interests had concentrated on the Atlantic Ocean, and our Navy operated the majority of her warships in those waters. Only a handful of frigates or cruisers patrolled such Read More
5 MAY 1942 NAVAJO CODE TALKERS On the night of 26 October 1918 two WWI companies of the Army’s 142nd Infantry became trapped near Chufilly, France. To affect their withdrawal in the face of German radio code breaking prowess, the Army Read More
12 JANUARY 1910 “JOHNNY” MOORE John Anderson “Johnny” Moore was born on 12 January 1910 in central Texas. By age 18 he was living near Memphis, from whence he was appointed to the US Naval Academy. Here, his thundering right hook Read More
6 JANUARY 1945 CDR GEORGE F. DAVIS Since October 1944, the Allied assault on the 7000 islands of the Philippines had been steadily progressing. Leyte, Samar, and several more of the Visayans had fallen, though the main island of Luzon remained Read More