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NAVY CHOPPER DOWN: One injured, both pilots okay in sliding to treeline during emergency landing

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022City Desk0

ISLE OF WIGHT, VA. – The Virginia State Police report that on January 12, 2022, at approximately 11:30 a.m., the Virginia State Police were called to investigate a United States Navy helicopter that had to make an emergency landing in an open field in Isle of Wight County. As the helicopter pilot was making the emergency landing, the […]

MURDER USA: Teen turned family home into a shooting gallery, killed his mom, Taledia Oxley, and his brother Asa Oxley while injuring his father.

January 8, 2022January 8, 2022City Desk0

MURDER USA: Teen turned family home into a shooting gallery, killed his mom, Taledia Oxley and his brother Asa Oxley while injured his father. The Prince George’s County Police Department arrested and charged a juvenile suspect in connection with a domestic-related double homicide in Clinton Thursday evening. The victims are identified as 44-year-old Taledia Oxley […]

WORLD WAR II: Photos and sketches of the armed services at war

November 11, 2021November 12, 2021City Desk0

Sketch shows American soldiers in a jeep, seen from the rear, as they travel down the road to Kokumbona on Guadalcanal island, past abandoned Japanese field pieces during the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal. Contributor: Brodie, Howard Date: 1942 Working on a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Howard R. Hollem, photographer Created […]

America’s Veterans: ‘Your Sacrifices Will Never Be Forgotten’

October 22, 2021November 11, 2021City Desk0

Harry “Buddy” Raley in 1942, just after being drafted into the United States Army. World War II Heroes: ‘ Your Sacrifices Will Never Be Forgotten’ THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY SPECIAL FEATURE (Editor’s Note: This article was initially published in 2006 and is being presented again as a tribute to America’s Veterans in 2021.” CALLAWAY—Sixty years ago, […]

THE GREATEST AIRLIFT IN HISTORY WAS TO BERLIN DUE TO THE BLOCKADE BY THE SOVIET UNION ATTEMPTING TO STARVE THE WESTERN SECTORS OF THE CONQUERED NAZI CAPITOL

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021City Desk0

In spite of the claims of President Joe Biden who said the airlift that brought out over 100,000 Americans, allies and Afghans from Kabul due to the disaster he created on the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan was the “largest and most difficult in history”, the Berlin Airlift topped it. From the Truman Library: […]