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Hodgson details the decayed and putrid state of some of the corpses. The recovery teams placed the bodies in coffins in the mine, there was a fear that the bodies might fall apart. [8] Identification was a problem. Mothers and widows failed to identify most of the bodies "they were too much mangled and scorched to retain any of their features ...
Men's clothier Jack Freedman told The New York Times that wearing a bow tie "is a statement maker" that identifies a person as an individual because "it's not generally in fashion". [1] Numerous writers and bow tie sellers have observed that the popularity of this type of neckwear can rise and fall with the fortunes of the well-known people who ...
Polish wz. 08/39 contact mine. The protuberances near the top of the mine, here with their protective covers, are called Hertz horns, and these trigger the mine's detonation when a ship bumps into them. An explosion of a naval mine. A naval mine is a self-contained explosive weapon placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines.
Men volunteered very quickly. The number who came forward varies depending on the source: 76, [6] 50, [7] about 35 [8] or more than 30. [4] Other men transferred from other units, such as 14 men including a Sergeant William Thompson, from the 3rd York Militia in October. [8] Pierpoint himself signed up as a private even though he was 68 years ...
A Marine rifle squad fires a volley over the bodies of 15 officers and men killed at Naval Air Station Kanoehe Bay, Hawaii during the Pearl Harbor raid the previous day. Picture taken December 8 ...
An iron pipe was then attached to her bow, angled downwards so the explosive charge would be delivered sufficiently underwater to make it effective. This was the same method developed for the earlier " David " surface attack craft used successfully against the USS New Ironsides .
The commodore's sloop was a large armed vessel, the others were gun boats all having a long gun in the bow and a carronade in the stern, but the calibre of the guns and the number of the crew of each differed in proportion to the size of the boat, varying from 32 pdrs. and 60 men, to 18 pdrs. and 40 men. I found here laying above the flotilla ...