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USS Yorktown Part of Charleston’s Harbor

Yorktown (CV-10, CVS-10) The aircraft carrier Yorktown, now moored in Charleston harbor, is the fourth US Navy ship to bear that name and the second...

Charleston Lives in the Past and Present

CHARLESTON, S.C.--History and Charleston are inseparable.  Founded in 1670, immigrants first came here to escape religious oppression.  Later, many became wealthy through the rice,...

End Day with Refreshing Cider and Calvados

Vergers de Romilly After a full day of WW2 battlefields and cemeteries, we made a detour on a side road just behind La Cambe German...

OPERATION DYNAMO: The BEF evacuation from Dunkirk

OPERATION DYNAMO: The BEF evacuation from Dunkirk Dunkirk: The Movie and the Reality Dunkirk, along with Pearl Harbor, D-Day and Hiroshima, is one of those...

Sunken LSTs Found

SLAPTON SANDS DISCOVERY By Stephen T. Powers The Massachusetts company Hydroid announced on 28 April that one of its underwater robotic vehicles had located the wrecks...

The Price of Victory

  Although universally portrayed as essential and victorious, the D-Day assault on the Normandy coast was not with enormous material and human costs, and it...

World War I Guidebook Kickstarter Campaign

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