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On the evening of Saturday, December 20, 1919, cold winds swept New York Harbor as 249 leftist radicals waited on Ellis Island to board USS Burford. The Army transport was to carry the deportees, most of whom were not American citizens, to Soviet Russia. The Soviet state formed after the overthrow of the czar in … Lire la suite
Major General Benedict Arnold’s 1780 plot to surrender the American fortifications and garrison at West Point to the British, one of the Revolution’s most dramatic episodes, nearly succeeded. Arnold’s treasonous undertaking failed thanks to a remarkable convergence of events—events that many, including General George Washington, could explain only as divine intervention. “In no instance since … Lire la suite
The Army has awarded a posthumous honorary promotion to the service’s first Black colonel, elevating him to brigadier general more than 100 years after his death, Army Times has learned. Col. Charles Young’s career, which stretched from his West Point graduation in 1889 to his forced medical retirement in 1917 that kept him from fighting in World … Lire la suite
On February 2, 1855, Alexis Soyer, Britain’s most famous chef, left a London theater to join friends at a nearby restaurant. A waiter showed him to the wrong room, and while waiting in vain for his fellow diners, he picked up a copy of the London Times newspaper and read the latest distressing report from … Lire la suite
Gail Halvorsen, a child of the Depression, recalled watching planes soar over his family farm in Utah and how he longed someday to be at the controls. As America geared up for the looming world war, Halvorsen was accepted into a pilot-training program. The attack on Pearl Harbor prompted him to join the Army Air … Lire la suite
Situated on Prince William Sound’s scenic Passage Canal, Whittier was designed and built as a U.S. Army base during World War II. IT’S RAINING the day my train rattles through the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel and comes to a halt in front of a rail yard in Whittier, Alaska. I disembark beside a small harbor … Lire la suite
En utilisant des Spitfires de haut vol et un Lockheed Electra, un Australien au franc-parler a aidé à développer des techniques de photoréconnaissance au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Des générations d’anges bleus et d’oiseaux-tonnerre doivent leur capacité à se promener sur les rampes de spectacle aérien dans des combinaisons de vol intelligentes et … Lire la suite
Par toutes les apparences extérieures, William Ewart Fairbairn était un policier britannique modeste. Pourtant, le natif du Hertfordshire était en fait un maître averti des arts martiaux. Battant des adversaires dans des centaines de combats de rue violents sur une période de 20 ans, il a gagné l’épithète de “Dan intrépide” et a ensuite formé … Lire la suite
Le Service de Renseignement Extérieur (SVR) de la Fédération de Russie a annoncé qu’elle déclassifierait les documents d’archives tout au long de 2022 pour coïncider avec les anniversaires historiques, selon Komsomolets Moskovski journal. “Les dates importantes de l’année à venir nous donnent une raison de déclassifier plusieurs noms et histoires”, a déclaré Sergey Naryshkin, directeur … Lire la suite
Bessie Coleman, the first African-American woman to become a licensed pilot and one of the most sensational stunt fliers during the Roaring ’20s, came close to never getting off the ground Coleman was born on January 26, 1893, in Atlanta, Texas. She was just learning to walk when the family moved to Waxahachie, about 30 … Lire la suite
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