40 years after the bombing of Marine Barracks in Beirut, this veteran remembers
Marine veteran Paul “Doc” Doolittle is walking 273 miles to remember the Marines lost during the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut.
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This devastating bombing was courtesy of Confederate Secret Service
A Confederate saboteur conducted a bombing at City Point, Virginia that completely destroyed two barges and a warehouse.
1,000 bombers took part in largest World War II bombing raid
The largest bombing raid of World War II was the British attack on Cologne, Germany, on May 30, 1942, involving over 1,000 bombers.
Why the Dresden firebombing campaign was a PR nightmare during WWII
Amidst the last months of World War II from February 13-15, 1945, Allied armies bombed the historic city of Dresden in eastern Germany. The Dresden Firebombing is viewed as a PR nightmare or, better yet, controversial since it was neither crucial to German wartime manufacturing nor was it a leading industrial center. Before the big […]
What happened to the officer who ignored the radar warning at Pearl Harbor
In the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, there was plenty of blame to go around in the U.S. Navy. At first, Adm. Husband J. Kimmel caught a lot of the heat for the surprise attack’s success, but he was eventually exonerated by a Naval board of inquiry. Chief of Naval Operations Harold […]
Today in military history: US raids Hanoi
On Aug. 27, 1972, U.S. aircraft hit North Vietnamese barracks near Hanoi and Haiphong in the heaviest bombing in four years.
That time Germany bombed New York but it was blamed on insects
German spies bombed Black Tom Island, a large, man-made island off the coast of Jersey City, New Jersey, and claimed it was an accident.