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The Cuban missile crisis : President Kennedy's address to the nation, October 22, 1962This document contains a transcript of President Kennedy's speech addressing the Cuban Missile Crisis. It details the aftermath as well as the effect…
Mind-sets and missiles : a first hand account of the Cuban missile crisis / Kenneth Michael AbsherThis document contains a first hand account of the Cuban Missile Crisis and how it was addressed by US officials.
Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Raleigh. Torpedoed and bombedTorpedoed and bombed, the 7,050 ton light crusier USS Raleigh is held afloat near her anchorage in Pearl Harbor by a barge. The capsized USS Utah is…
The USS Oklahoma, shown capsized following Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, HawaiiThe USS Oklahoma is centered in the picture depicted as a dilapidated iron from following the profuse bombing by Japanese warplanes.
Leathernecks take time out to inspect captured enemy equipment.
Captain Ted Williams, Former Boston Red Sox Slugger, 1953AROOSTOOK LEATHERNECK IN KOREA -- Marine Sergeant Roger W. McCully, 21, straps Captain Ted Williams, former Boston Red Sox slugger, into his jet…
Top Secret Report of Major Yuri GagarinFull Report of Yury Gagarin to the State Commission after his mission, on April 13, 1961.
Pravda Newspaper Article, 'Announcement of the First Satellite'Announcement of the launch of the first artificial "sputnik" satellite by the Soviet Union.
Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich (1934 - 1968)Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at a press conference in Finland several months after his space flight in 1961.
The Japanese PURPLE MachineA recovered part of the original Japanese Type B cipher machine, codenamed "Purple" by the United States, on display at the National Cryptologic…