While there can be a legitimate question over whether the fastest time that a person has ever run the hundred meter hurdles while wearing swimming fins (14.82 seconds) really deserves to be remembered, certainly a few record attempts at least fall into the category of history stranger than fiction.
In August of 1918, as the armies of Europe neared exhaustion, American troops of the 28th “Keystone” division were thrown into a nearly forgotten battle that fully represented the horrors of the War to End All Wars.
Of the vaunted ironclad warships of the US Civil War perhaps the mightiest and most terrifying was the confederate ram Tennessee. On August 5, 1864, she would be put to the test in the largest naval engagement of the war, an engagement that defined the divided loyalties of the War of the Rebellion.