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On February 14, 1943 the New York Times reported one of the more extraordinary stories of the silent service. The previous Christmas Eve a twenty two year old Pharmacist mate, First Class, had performed life-saving internal surgery on a fellow crewman aboard the Submarine USS Silversides.
Yes, that is a Tardis on my shirt. And all three cats make it into the background.
There were 129 stage robberies in Arizona alone between 1875 and 1903. But one robbery in particular has left an enduring mystery. What exactly happened outside Wickenburg, Arizona on November 5, 1871?
A witness said, on August 8, 1975: it “sounded like the sky was collapsing and the earth was cracking.” What came next was the single most deadly infrastructure collapse in human history.
The unsung heroes of the naval war in the Western theater weren’t the city class casemate ironclads, but a much larger and more active fleet of more than seventy, much smaller, lightly armored vessels. The “Tinclads” of the US Civil War deserve to be remembered.
