War has always been, fundamentally, a mans job; at least when it comes to fighting at the front, where women only used to be various auxiliaries (bartenders, sanitary...), wielding weapons only in extreme cases. However, in the 20th century, female participation experienced a remarkable effervescenc
The American destroyer USS OBannon (DD 450) was one of the lucky ships of the US Navy. The vessel was named after a legendary marine officer Lieutenant Presley Neville OBannon, who distinguished himself in the First Barbary War (1801-05). The Fletcher class destroyer was launched in 1942. She dev
The Battle of Kosovo Polje, in Serbian Cyrillic Бој на Косову или Косовска битка, took place on June 28 in the Gregorian calendar or June 15 in the Julian calendar 1389 in Kosovo on the field of Blackbirds in Serbian kos means blackbird and ovo is a suffix indicating the place, Kosovo therefore mean
Once the U-boat was located, the problem was n attack, and succeed in the attack. At the start of hostilities, no navy used any means other than the depth charge. It was simply a large steel cylinder containing about 150 kg of a powerful explosive, fitted with a fuze sensitive to water pressure and