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Grenade, sunk by air attack at Dunkirk on 29 May [143] Wakeful, sunk by a torpedo from the E-boat S-30 on 29 May [144] Basilisk, Havant, and Keith, sunk by air attack off the beaches on 1 June [145] The French Navy lost three destroyers: Bourrasque, mined off Nieuport on 30 May; Siroco, sunk by the E-boats S-23 and S-26 on 31 May
The Confederate Army of Manhattan was a group of eight Southern operatives who attempted to burn New York City on or after Evacuation Day, November 25, 1864, during the final stages of the American Civil War. [1] In a plot orchestrated by Jacob Thompson, the operatives infiltrated Union territory by way of Canada and made their way to New York ...
In the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, three hijacked planes slammed into the Pentagon and New York's landmark World Trade Center on Tuesday, demolishing the two 110-story towers ...
New York City, the largest and most populous city in the United States, [1] [2] [3] has been the target of numerous acts of terrorism throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The city, in particular, was one of the targets of the September 11 attacks , the single deadliest terrorist attack in history, which saw the destruction of the World Trade ...
An attack by part of the XIX Armee Korps was not authorised until 12:40 a.m. on the night of 21/22 May. By the time the 10th Panzer Division was ready to attack Calais, the British 30th Infantry Brigade and 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (3rd RTR) had reinforced the French and British troops in the port. On 22 May, the British troops had established ...
John McLoughlin (born June 6, 1953) is a retired American police officer who is known for being one of the two Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers that survived after being trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks.
The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan in New York City that was destroyed September 11, 2001. The site is being rebuilt with six new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks. World Trade Center; World Trade Center (PATH station) One World Trade Center; Marriott World Trade ...
A young mother teaching her son to read. A former college football player "on top of the world" living in New York City. An 18-year-old aspiring nurse. A father of two remembered as the "life of ...