18-20 MAY 1863 THE YAZOO CITY SHIPYARD After the failure of the Yazoo Pass expedition before Confederate Fort Pemberton in March 1863, MGEN Ulysses Grant adopted a new strategy against Vicksburg, the last and most menacing Rebel city preventing Union control Read More
DECEMBER 1967-MAY 1985 JOHN WALKER SPY RING (cont.) The Soviets were indeed interested in what RMC John Walker had brought! After waiting in a Soviet embassy anteroom while the authenticity of his KL-47 keylist was verified, an official returned to Walker Read More
DECEMBER 1967-MAY 1985 JOHN WALKER SPY RING By the late 1960s, US Navy top-secret operations were routinely shadowed by Russian “trawlers” bristling with antennae. B-52 airstrikes against North Vietnam seemed to be anticipated by the enemy, even when diverted to secondary Read More