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MacArthur still endures as a larger-than-life figure — for good or ill
Few subjects in military history are more loaded than public perception of Douglas MacArthur.
By Jon Guttman
Babe Ruth in a kimono, a deadly Navy sub mishap and the art of baseball diplomacy
The role of baseball in Japanese-U.S. relations has a long and rich history.
By Steven Wisensale, University of Connecticut
That time American planes fought American planes
The strange story of Task Force 34.
By John W. Lambert, Aviation History Magazine
Coast Guard CWO killed in Alaska crane accident
Local emergency medical services personnel performed CPR on CWO2 Michael Kozloski and rushed him to South Peninsula Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on Thursday, Coast Guard officials say.
By Carl Prine
Investigators probing mysterious death of Coast Guard seaman in Alaska
Authorities are awaiting an autopsy report from the State Medical Examiner Office.
By Carl Prine
This is what happened when an Air Force pilot got assigned to a Navy carrier
Ron Williams remembers his temporary duty assignment flying Douglas A-3B “Whales” from a carrier as the most challenging two years of his career
By Chester Peterson Jr., Aviation History Magazine
At this time in 1941, a Clipper plane was trying to get home the hard way — flying around the world!
The attack on Pearl Harbor forced one Pan Am crew to attempt a round-the-world flight to escape Japanese warplanes. Others weren't so lucky.
By C.V. Glines, Aviation History Magazine
When Seabees weren’t building bases in Vietnam, they were fighting the enemy
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., includes 85 Seabees among its list of war dead—a tribute to their motto, “We build, we fight,” which is symbolized in their logo of a bee holding a wrench, hammer and machine gun.
By Tom Edwards, Vietnam Magazine
Baltimore’s WWII-era Liberty ship could be homeless soon
The 440-foot-long gray vessel is one of only two fully operational Liberty ships, which transported vast numbers of military personnel and countless tons of cargo during the war — and the only one sailing regularly out of the port city where it was built.
By Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun via the AP
Veteran pilot reunited with vintage World War II bomber
Former U.S. Army Air Force Capt. Ralph Miller received a birthday gift about a month early this year.
By Greg Bischof, (Texarkana, Ark.) Gazette via AP
Coast Guard searching for man missing in the Bering Sea
The Coast Guard cutter Douglas Munro has been ordered to join the search.
By Carl Prine