Home page :: Forums :: Gallery :: About :: War Stories :: Primary Sources ::  Revolutionary War :: Spanish American War :: War of 1812 :: Civil War :: World War I :: World War II :: Korean War :: Vietnam War :: Gulf War :: Iraqi Freedom :: More...  

Decrease Font Size Increase Font Size
Login

Military Photos



Main Menu
Online
There are 1435 users online

You can register for a user account here.
Library of Congress

Past Articles
  • H. J. Lynch, 6 May 1915: we fixed bayonets and with a maddening shout, we charge


  • The View Along the Rhine


  • Life of an FO


  • The defense of Wake Island, December 1941


  • A Tar Heel Confederate Soldier


  • Civil War Diary, 1864-1865


  • Letter, E.R. Green, Company A,, Twenty-Third Engineers


  • General Benedict Arnold: an official after action report to Sir Henry Clinton


  • Early Photo Jet Recon


  • Recollections of the Korean War


    • Older articles

    Military Quotes

    The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

    -- Sun Tzu

    Web links

    [ Links main | New | Popular | Top-rated | Random ]

    Link profile: The USS SAVAGE (DE-386)


    Category: Start / Patriot Award Winners
    Only thirty destroyer escorts were manned by U.S. Coast Guard crews during WWII. The USS SAVAGE was one of them. This is her story.
    Link comments |
    Link rating details
    Total votes: 7
    Overall rating: 9.14
    Unregistered users
    Number of ratings: 7
    Breakdown of ratings by value
    0 votes (0.0% total votes)0 votes (0.0% total votes)0 votes (0.0% total votes)0 votes (0.0% total votes)0 votes (0.0% total votes)1 votes (14.3% total votes)0 votes (0.0% total votes)1 votes (14.3% total votes)0 votes (0.0% total votes)5 votes (71.4% total votes)
    12345678910
    Link rating: 9.14
    High rating: 10
    Low rating: 6
     

    * NOTE: This resource weighs registered users' ratings versus unregistered users' ratings 10 To 1.

    * NOTE: This resource weighs registered users' ratings versus outside voters' ratings 10 To 1.
    Outside voters
    Number of ratings: 0
    No outside votes
    Link rating:
    High rating:
    Low rating:
     

    Comments

    Display Order
    Only logged in users are allowed to comment. register/log in
    Military History
    Forum Posts

    Military Polls

    Should Special Forces overseas be ordered to return to normal standards of uniform and appearance?

    [ Results | Polls ]

    Votes: 206

    This Day in History
    1865: Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.

    1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

    1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman.

    1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes.

    1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed.

    1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966.

    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


    More...


    Home page :: Forums :: Gallery :: About :: War Stories :: Primary Sources ::  Revolutionary War :: Spanish American War :: War of 1812 :: Civil War :: World War I :: World War II :: Korean War :: Vietnam War :: Gulf War :: Iraqi Freedom :: More...  


    syndication