From the Sea to the Moon Twenty-three-year-old Lieutenant Thomas O. Paine boarded the giant Japanese submarine with some trepidation. It was September 1945, and Japan had surrendered just days earlier. “I recall my mixed emotions as we pulled alongside her towering hull and scrambled…onto her foredeck,” he wrote in an unpublished memoir. “I was excited …
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Kiffin Yates Rockwell set out to settle multiple scores with the ‘Boche’ over France. In early August 1914, the French consulate’s office in New Orleans received an unusual letter. Just days after France entered World War I, two American brothers had written to volunteer for the French army. Although the United States would not officially …
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David Hammond’s painting Uncommon Chivalry highlights a rare compassionate act in the midst of combat more than six decades ago. In it he depicts Republic P-47D pilot Major Bill Dunham circling over a Japanese flier he had just shot down over the Philippine Sea in December 1944. Dunham is shown tossing his own lifejacket to …
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The Maid of Harlech It’s unusual that somebody comes across the wreck of a World War II aircraft who has the forbearance to not only leave the wreckage undisturbed but to maintain secrecy about its location, and then to search out a like-minded aviation archaeologist who will treat the discovery in a professional manner. But …
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