July 27, 2024
Tag: Series x
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Poster Postcards Part X
The US Navy Visits Australia
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U. S. Fleet Visits Australia The year before President Theodore Roosevelt left office, he dispatched the U. S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet on an around the world tour. Twenty-eight ships and 14,000 men left port in Hampton Ponds, Virginia for South America, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Malaya, and back home through Suez and the Straits of Gibraltar. One of the…
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April 16, 2024 5 Comments
“The War to End all Wars” is what the pundits called World War I. That war also generated millions of stories. Many were recited many times, others were never talked about. Death, destruction, ruin of the landscape and man’s achievements are hard to reconcile, but this tale ends with salvation for a whole generation. Happily!