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Since 1998, the James Beard Foundation has awarded the title of America's Classics to multiple restaurants. [1] The award focuses on family-owned restaurants across the country that have been operating for at least a decade. [2][1][3][4] According to the Washington Post the awards are given to restaurants “with timeless appeal, each beloved ...
Bainbridge drew off to make emergency repairs and re-approached Java an hour later. She was a shambles, an unmanageable wreck with a badly wounded crew, and she surrendered. [117] Bainbridge determined that Java was far too damaged to retain as a prize and ordered her burned, but not before having her helm salvaged and installed on Constitution ...
Branch. United States Navy. Type. Naval fleet. Admiral Frank B. Upham, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Asiatic Fleet (front row, center), and his staff officers, c. 1935. The United States Asiatic Fleet was a fleet of the United States Navy during much of the first half of the 20th century. Before World War II, the fleet patrolled the Philippine Islands.
Consolidated PBY Catalina. The Consolidated Model 28, more commonly known as the PBY Catalina (US Navy designation), is a flying boat and amphibious aircraft designed by Consolidated Aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s. In US Army service it was designated the OA-10, in Canadian service as the Canso and it later received the NATO reporting name Mop ...
Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941–1942. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-60344-176-6. Morton, Louis (1953). "III The Reinforcement of the Philippines". The Fall of the Philippines (U.S. Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific). United States Army Center of Military History. CMH Pub 5-2.
Boat Image Armament Notes Mk 5 SOC: M2 Browning.50 cal Heavy Machine Gun and M240 General Purpose Machine Gun: Transportable by Lockheed C-5 Galaxy only : SOC-R: GAU-17 minigun, M2 Browning.50 cal Heavy Machine Gun, M240 General Purpose Machine Gun, and 40mm Mk 19 grenade launcher
Colin Purdie Kelly Jr. (/ ˈ k oʊ l ɪ n / KOH-lin; July 11, 1915 – December 10, 1941) was a World War II B-17 Flying Fortress pilot who flew bombing runs against the Japanese navy in the first days after the Pearl Harbor attack. He is remembered as one of the first American heroes of the war after ordering his crew to bail out while he ...
Julie Krone. Julieann Louise Krone (born July 24, 1963), is a retired American jockey. In 1993, she became the first (and as of June 8, 2024 only [2]) female jockey to win a Triple Crown race when she captured the Belmont Stakes aboard Colonial Affair. In 2000, she became the first woman inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of ...