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Bombardiers took an oath to guard the Norden bombsight with their lives to ensure it didn’t fall into enemy hands, but the secret was already out. A jeep carrying an ordnance technician, escorted by two armed guards, arrived at the B-17 to deliver a “secret weapon” to its bombardier in December 1942. The special delivery …
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The p… Read MoreHunley’s Harrowing MissionEight committed crewmen crowded into the Confederacy’s revolutionary submersible for its first operation, it would also be its last.
The post Hunley’s Harrowing Mission appeared fi… Read MoreValor: Down with His SubmarineCaptain John Cromwell U.S. Navy Medal of Honor Caroline Islands Nov. 19, 1943 In November 1943, U.S. Navy Captain John Philip Cromwell fought a deadly game with the Japanese and lo… Read More
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