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Hace 6 días · The Kokoda Track campaign or Kokoda Trail campaign was part of the Pacific War of World War II.The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought between July and November 1942 in what was then the Australian Territory of Papua.It was primarily a land battle, between the Japanese South Seas Detachment under Major General Tomitarō Horii and Australian and Papuan land forces under command of ...
The USS Midway Museum hosts many exciting and special events that pay tribute to our nation’s history and honor the brave men and women who serve. Midway's Legacy Week honors our nation’s heroes with inspiring exhibits and brings back the thrill of Top Gun with an annual movie night. While Independence Day is celebrated with a spectacular ...
Hace 3 días · Mortal Kombat is an American media franchise centered on a series of fighting video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992.. The original Mortal Kombat arcade game spawned a franchise consisting of action-adventure games, a comic book series, a card game, films, an animated TV series, and a live-action tour. Mortal Kombat has become the best-selling fighting game franchise ...
Hace 3 días · The Iowa class was a class of six fast battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1939 and 1940. They were initially intended to intercept fast capital ships such as the Japanese Kongō class and serve as the "fast wing" of the U.S. battle line. The Iowa class was designed to meet the Second London Naval Treaty's "escalator clause" limit of 45,000-long-ton (45,700 t) standard displacement.
Hace 2 días · This 1863 oval-shaped map depicts the Gettysburg Battlefield during July 1–3, 1863, showing troop and artillery positions and movements, relief hachures, drainage, roads, railroads, and houses with the names of residents at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg. This November 1862 Harper's Magazine illustration shows Confederate Army troops escorting captured African American civilians south ...
Hace 1 día · Dunkirk is a 2017 epic historical war thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Christopher Nolan that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II from the perspectives of the land, sea and air. It features an ensemble cast comprising Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles in his feature film debut, Aneurin Barnard, James D'Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh ...
Hace 3 días · USS Texas (BB-35) is a museum ship in Galveston and former United States Navy New York-class battleship.She was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914. Texas served in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" but saw no action there, and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I without engaging the enemy, though she did fire for the first time when ...
