Cuban Missile Crisis Anniversary: Discovery
From the moment the first ships of the Anadyr deployment fleet left their moorings, they sailed straight into a network …
International Militaries
Convoy SL-125: Sacrificial Lamb For Operation Torch?
“This is the only time I have been congratulated for losing ships. . . .”
– Cdre. Cecil Reyne, commander …
Cuban Missile Crisis: Operation Anadyr
Operation Anadyr, named after a river in Far Eastern Russia, was the largest out-of-area deployment ever made by the Soviets, …
Finland’s Hamina-class Fast Attack Craft Combines Stealth With Firepower
Finland has a large coastline and hundreds of islands, and just a small Navy to protect the littoral waters in …
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, OPLAN 314/316, and Khrushchev’s Decision
As many problems as Nikita Khrushchev had in early 1962, another was beginning to fester in the one foothold he …
Sikorsky H-5 Combat Rescue in Korea
It was a hairy rescue that began ordinarily enough.
First Lieutenant Charles H. Field was the pilot of the 3rd …
The Air-launched Munitions Market
From the first combat aircraft of World War I to the early days of the Korean War, the most-used and …
Gandhi Tells Great Britain: Quit India! Now!
“The mantra is: ‘Do or Die.’ We shall either free India or die in the attempt.”
—Mahandas Gandhi
In the …
‘Very Long Range’ P-51 Mustang Missions to Japan Taxed Pilots
To support the B-29 Superfortress armada gathered on Guam, Saipan and Tinian – and to make their own, unique contribution …
The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Berlin Crisis, the Bay of Pigs, and the Soviet Bluff Called
As if the unequal East-West strategic nuclear forces balance was not enough of a problem, Nikita Khrushchev was also dealing …