Category: US Navy

• Bill Johnston – The Thousand Islands Pirate

  

  October 5, 2024

  1800s, Bandit, Battle of Crysler’s Farm, Battle of the Windmill, Bill Johnston, History Daily, HMS St. Lawrence, Kingston, Ontario, Lake Ontario, Pirate, Royal Navy, Sacketts Harbor, Sacketts Harbor. New York, Sacketts HarborNew York, Smuggler, The ship Sir Robert Peel, Upper Canada Rebellion 1837, US Navy, War of 1812

  1800s, Bandit, Battle of Crysler’s Farm, Battle of the Windmill, Bill Johnston, History Daily, HMS St. Lawrence, kingston, Lake Ontario, NY, Ontario, Pirate, Royal Navy, Sacketts Harbor, Smuggler, The ship Sir Robert Peel, Upper Canada Rebellion 1837, US Navy, War of 1812

• The Divine Wind: Japanese Kamikazes of World War II

  

  Image: Japanese high school girls wave farewell to departing Kamikaze pilots. “There was a hypnotic fascination to the sight so alien to our Western philosophy. We watched each plunging kamikaze with the detached horror of one witnessing a terrible spectacle rather than as the intended victim. We forgot self for the moment as we groped…

  October 1, 2024

  1940s, History Daily, Japanese Air Force, Japanese Navy, Kamikazes, Pilots, The Divine Wind, US Navy, World War II

  1940s, American History, History Daily, Japanese Air Force, Japanese Navy, Kamikazes, Pilots, The Divine Wind, US Navy

• USS Forrestal Fire in the Gulf of Tonkin During the Vietnam War. July 29, 1967.

  July 29, 2024

  1960s, Fatalities, Fire, Gulf of Tonkin, History Daily, John McCain, US Navy, USS Forrestal, Vietnam War

  1960s, Fatalities, Fire, Gulf of Tonkin, History Daily, John McCain, US Navy, USS Forrestal, Vietnam War

• July 26, 1943: ‘Battle of the Pips’.

  Image: The battleship USS Mississippi pictured in 1945. A veteran of the First World War, she had been extensively modernized and served throughout the Pacific, primarily as a shore bombardment vessel.

  July 26, 2024

  1940s, Aleutian Campaign 1943, Battle of the Pips, History Daily, Kiska, Operation Cottage, US Navy, World War II

  1940s, Aleutian Campaign 1943, Battle of the Pips, History Daily, Kiska, Operation Cottage, US Navy, World War II