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Just after 7 PM on 4 December 1965, astronauts Frank F. Borman, II, and James A. Lovell, Jr., were carried into outer space on GEMINI VII. America’s twelfth manned space flight would last nearly fourteen days and carry Borman and [...]

In October of 1944, Flying magazine published its annual naval-aviation edition. In his introduction to the issue, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air Artemus L. Gates acknowledged, in a roundabout way, the accomplishments of America’s submarine force. “When I [...]

On the morning of 25 August 1949, USS COCHINO (SS-345) and USS TUSK (SS-426) were engaged in a training exercise north of the Arctic Circle in the roiling waters of the Barents Sea. The following is from a publication, entitled [...]

Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., was born on 2 May 1910 in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended Princeton University, served as a U.S. Army Air Corps flying cadet in 1932, and worked in the coal-mining industry during the 1930s. (He washed out of [...]

USS SCULPIN (SS-191) began her ninth war patrol on 7 November 1943, departing Johnston Atoll, where she had stopped to fill up on fuel after leaving Pearl Harbor, for the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The United States [...]