by Bob | Feb 12, 2021 | Hidden History
USS Reuben James “Have you heard of a ship called the good Reuben James, Manned by hard fighting men both of honor and fame?” The USS Reuben James was a Clemson-class destroyer, built just after World War I in 1919. Clemson-class, also known as four stackers, were the...
by Bob | Nov 2, 2020 | Hidden History
Reuben James I’d never heard of the Reuben James even though Woody Guthrie wrote a song about it. Here is what happened: Five Weeks Before Pearl Harbor; An American Warship Was Torpedoed from Bob...
by Bob | Aug 26, 2020 | Hidden History
Sounds like a reverse Man in the High Castle. I had never really considered it until I saw a book in the Fort Campbell library some years ago titled Japan’s Secret War: How Japan’s Race to Build its Own Atomic Bomb Provided the Groundwork for North...
by Bob | May 8, 2020 | 2020 Pandemic
It was a good day, even while many, including my father, were still fighting in the Pacific Theater. Many historians have traced the origins of World War II. Most point to the awful peace treaty after the end of the First World War, which was the Great War, until...
by Bob | Dec 7, 2019 | Hidden History
Most disasters require 7 things to go wrong; my rule of 7. Whether it be a plane crash or a military disaster. Pearl Harbor was no different. It wasn’t one or two or even six things that went wrong: it was seven. Free today through 9 December is Stuff...
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