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On November 11, 1999 The Washington Post reported: “Two weeks ago Captain Earl R Fox learned that he is the last world war II veteran still on active duty in the US armed forces.” The Post wrote that Fox described himself as “the last direct physical link between today’s military and the warriors of Midway, Normandy and Iwo Jima.”
I am very excited to be on this revival of the classic History Channel show Modern Marvels. This is a special three epsiode series on engineering of WWII. Episode 1 premiers tonight, Monday, July 27 at 10/9c.
In one of the strangest trials of the 1980s, Giovanni Vigliotto was credited with breaking an unlikley world's record.
It might surprise you that OMG was not created by a millennial in the 2000s, but by a British admiral in 1917. And it wasn't the only OMG moment to occur on this day in history
Over 700 different aircraft models and designs reached active service and serial production worldwide during the Second World War. Some were quite famous, others much less so. Among the latter was a nearly forgotten US super Heavy Bomber design, overshadowed by a far more famous plane, that ended up perhaps most remembered for a dubious distinction.
