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U.S. Submarine Successes, November/December 1944  Attack on carrier Junyo by USS Pintado(SS-387), 3 November 1944 Navy.mil Submarine Successes, November/December 1944  On 3 November 1944, Commander Submarines Pacific sent an Ultra intelligence message to Lieutenant Commander Bernard A. Clarey, skipper of USS Pintado (SS-387), informing him that a Japanese carrier, three destroyers, and a battleship or cruiser were transiting southbound through …

President Woodrow Wilson, U.S. Enters World War I On April 6, 1917, the United States formally declared war against Germany and entered the conflict in Europe. Fighting since the summer of 1914, Britain, France, and Russia welcomed news that American troops and supplies would be directed toward the Allied war effort. Under the command of Major General John J. …

A parachute rigger with the 1st Special Forces Group’s Group Support Battalion sews surgical masks for medical patients at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., March 31, 2020. Special Forces Soldiers Make Masks for Health Care Workers BY JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD Soldiers assigned to the 1st Special Forces Group’s Group Support Battalion at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, are …

By Henri Lepetit for SOF Four years after Rhodesia was handed over to that homicidal maniac Mugabe through notoriously farcical elections, I found myself whiling away the time in Durban Natal, South Africa. It ought to be remembered that a large portion of the hapless – and, contemptibly irrelevant to the UK govt. interests- Zimbabwe …

The 1918 H1N1 flu pandemic, sometimes referred to as the “Spanish flu,” killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, including an estimated 675,000 people in the United States.1,2,3,4An unusual characteristic of this virus was the high death rate it caused among healthy adults 15 to 34 years of age.3 The pandemic lowered the average life expectancy …

Attack on a Rhodesian Fireforce Base. by Henri Lepetit, photos and text copyright Well into the Cold War after the US had fired its final angry shot in Vietnam Rhodesia became the last western democracy engaged in a hot one fighting for its survival against a communist dictatorship takeover. In 1977 the counter-insurgency warfare waged …