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airminded.org
It's exactly 40 years since the Battle of Long Tan, a notable feat of Australian arms during the Vietnam War. But I have a more personal anniversary in mind -- yesterday was 90 years to the day since my great-grand uncle John Joseph Mulqueeney was killed by an artillery round during the Somme campaign, on [...] |
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oceanweatherservices.com
During Christmas Week, 1951, began an incredible sea story involving a WWII era cargo vessel named the Flying Enterprise and her captain, Kurt Carlsen. |
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nathangoldwag.wordpress.com
Captain Scott's Polar Party - All five died returning from the South Pole in 1913 On August 8th, 1914, the ship Endurance left England for Antarctica, carrying Sir Ernest Shackleton and his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which aimed to make the first transcontinental crossing of the Southern Continent. The First World War had erupted only days... |
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charitysplace.wordpress.com
When we hear the word "Titanic," normally our mind associates with the James Cameron film of 1997 in which the fictional romance between two different-class passengers was the foreground in the most devastating non-wartime disaster in history. Perhaps a few of us will associate names and backgrounds of the true passengers, such as Thomas Andrews,... |
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