HMM-165 The White Knights
A Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 165 maintenance crew rigs a hoist sling to a downed CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter. Captain James R. Pleva landed the plane in the swift mountain river northwest of Chu Lai after it had been hit by enemy fire. The chopper was on fire and by landing in the river, Captain Pleva extinguished the flames. It was later retrieved from its watery landing pad - March 12 1967.

 

Aerial view of Midway Atoll, looking west, November 1941.

 

V-2 rocket

 

 

 

A good depiction of the first opposed American amphibious assault of the war. Gavutu and Tanambogo, 7 August 1942. Defended primarily by Japanese naval air ground crew, Korean laborers and civilian contractors.

 

 

I had the privilege of meeting one of them years ago. We talked a bit. He viewed it as simply ding a job he was given. After all these years and stories told he still wasn't overly excited about how much he contributed

 

Another image from the patrol. Fairly graphic photo. The other photos from this grouping show fire and maneuver as well as WIA and KIA NVA. 4th ID Central Highlands 1967-68

 

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A 1959 technical diagram of a tank landing ship illustrates its design and layout. These vessels were built to carry tanks, vehicles, and troops directly onto beaches during amphibious assaults. Their bow doors and ramps made them vital .

 

SMS Emden was a German light cruiser of the Dresden class, famous for her daring raids in 1914. On 9 November that year, she attacked the Cocos Islands but was intercepted by the more modern HMAS Sydney. Although Emden fired first, Sydney’s heavier guns tore her apart. With fires raging and hundreds of men dead or wounded, Captain Karl von Müller ordered her beached on North Keeling Island to prevent her from sinking outright. Roughly 134 sailors were killed and about 65 injured, a heavy toll for a crew of just over 300.
Survivors were picked up by Sydney or taken prisoner after reaching shore. The wounded were cared for on the Australian cruiser, while most of the rest spent the war in POW camps. A landing party under Hellmuth von Mücke, which had gone ashore before the battle, made a remarkable escape using the schooner Ayesha, eventually returning to Germany in 1915. The wreck of Emden, battered by waves, broke apart over the decades and was salvaged in the 1950s. Today only scattered remains exist, with guns, fittings and relics preserved in Australian museums.

 

10:03 am: United Airlines Flight 93 crashes into a field in Pennsylvania when passengers attempted to regain control of the aircraft. This image shows the flight path of Flight 93.

 

 

 

Shipwrecks of WW2. Blue is Allies and red Axis and has to be a lot bullion in some of these wrecks....

 

 

 

A tidbit of forgotten naval history: An abandoned Japanese mini-sub in Alaska in WWII and how it looks today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The crew of B-17G “Bolo Babe” of the 546th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomber Group, poses on top of their plane after a crash landing in France