When you’re fighting a global conflict alongside two other countries, one of them get knocked out of the war, and the third suddenly has an existential threat introduced to it overnight, one might think you’d be a little bit worried about the future sustainability of your war effort. That was the situation Japan was in on June 6, 1944. Instead of showing concern about the future of the Axis Pact, its response was downright optimistic.
By June 1944, the war was not looking good for the Axis.
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Longtime readers of We Are The Mighty are probably familiar with “Mad” Jack Churchil, the British officer who went into World War II combat with a Scotsman’s broadsword, bagpipes and even a longbow. What they may not know is that Nazi Germany had a Scottish enthusiast of their own. Lt. Gen. Ernst-Günther Baade first joined the German Army in World War I, but his World War II service really made an impression.
With Russia’s Severodvinsk-class subs in the Atlantic and Pacific, “there’ll be a dual-flank challenge for the United States,” a U.S. Navy admiral said.
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In 1943, at the height of World War II in Europe and beyond, two men met at a building overlooking the River Thames in the Westminster area of London. One of the men was Air Ministry engineer William Godfray de Lisle and the other was an officer of the British Combined Operations Department, Maj. Sir Malcolm Campbell. Campbell’s office oversaw raids on German positions throughout the European theater. De Lisle was there to show the officer a new weapon he’d designed. It was a .22-caliber rifle designed with an internal suppressor, supposedly one of the quietest weapons ever made.
Nearly a decade ago, the world was introduced to an inside look at the White House — one that only a presidential employee could convey. This took place when a former butler came out with a book outlining his time serving eight different presidential families; a tenure that lasted from President Truman to President Reagan.
The Butler, A Witness to History was written by historian and Washington Post writer, Wil Haygood. Haygood initially wrote an article in the Post, “A Butler Well Served by This Election,” which was later expanded.
Marine Sgt. Jason Frink was shown in a video getting into a physical altercation with hotel staff in San Diego. (Screenshot).
Marine Corps officials said they are looking into an incident caught on video in which a Marine can be seen shoving a hotel clerk and getting into a fight with a security guard in San Diego.
“We can confirm the Marine in the video is Sergeant Jason Frink, stationed at Camp Pendleton, CA,” said 1st Lt. Arthur Deal, a spokesman for I Marine Expeditionary Force. “The Marine Corps is still actively investigating the incident.
The U.S. and Japan have formally committed to collaboratively advancing specific emerging technologies for military use and linking their defense industrial bases as global supply chains remain strapped.
During a meeting at the Pentagon last week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Japan’s Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada signed two bilateral arrangements aimed at driving that new cooperation between their nations in the near term.
Via a new legally-binding Memorandum of Understanding for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Projects (MOU for RDT&E), Japan and the U.S.
The heavy losses that both sides are suffering on the ground in Ukraine are forcing innovation.
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The United States Marine Corps’ (USMC) F-35B Joint Strike Fighter is getting out of its comfort zone, as leaders look to short stretches of roads and other potential improvised operating areas to prove the first stealthy Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) fighter’s ability to fight from austere, remote, and hastily established locales. Such capabilities could prove to be absolutely essential in a high-end conflict in the Indo-Pacific, namely against China.
Michael Vallely, left and Daniel Wondering, assigned to Fleet Readiness Center Southwest, shave titanium grommets on the engine bay door of an F/-18E Super Hornet aircraft attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 136, aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77), Dec. 16, 2022. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Sasha Ambrose/U.S. Navy).
The Navy completed repairs to a F/A-18E Super Hornet jet last week that the service described as the “first of its kind.