Easter Eggs For Hitler Technical Sergeant William E. Thomas and Private First Class Joseph Jackson Technical Sergeant William E. Thomas and Private First Class Joseph Jackson prepared a gift of special “Easter Eggs” for Adolph Hitler and the German Army. Scrawling such messages on artillery shells in World War II was one way in which …
Operation Iceberg — Okinawa Invasion in 1945 Battle for Okinawa, 24 March -30 June 1945 Navy.mil Recollections of Commander Frederick Julian Becton, USN, Commanding Officer of the destroyer USS Laffey (DD-724) which, despite being struck by eight Japanese suicide (kamikaze) aircraft on 16 April 1945, did not sink. Adapted from Frederick Julian Becton interview in box 2 …
A CV-22 Osprey aircraft assigned to the 20th Special Operations Squadron at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., provides a fly over for the public before the Green Hornet Dedication ceremony at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Sept. 15, 2016. The aircraft and crew landed at the museum in tribute to the …
North Vietnamese mobile anti-aircraft gun destroyed by a 500-lb. aerial bomb during the siege of An Loc. (U.S. Air Force photo) South Vietnam: The Easter OffensiveWith the majority of U.S. troops out of South Vietnam, the North Vietnamese sensed an opportunity to end the war with a conventional invasion. On March 30, 1972, North Vietnam …