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USS Erie during the Battle of the Caribbean. The American gunboat USS Erie was escorting Convoy TAG-20 in the Caribbean between Trinidad and Guantánamo Bay when attacked 10 miles south of Curaçao by a German U-boat in November 1942. U-163—under Kurt-Eduard Engelmann—surfaced and fired three torpedoes at Erie. The Americans spotted the ...
Names of the victims of the September 11 attacks were inscribed at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum alphabetically by last name initial. They are organized as such: List of victims of the September 11 attacks (A–G) List of victims of the September 11 attacks (H–N) List of victims of the September 11 attacks (O–Z)
Borders carried significant trauma after 9/11. In 2014, she died aged 42 of stomach cancer she believed may have been a result of the dust and debris she was covered in on 9/11.
Impending Death. Impending Death is a photograph taken by freelance photographer Thomas Dallal during the September 11 attacks. [1] The photograph depicts the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, on fire after being struck by American Airlines Flight 11 at 8:46 a.m., and shortly before its collapse at 10:28 a.m. Visible in the photograph are numerous people trapped in the upper ...
Thirteen years after the tragic events of September 11, 2001 it seems nearly unfathomable to think that such an act could have even occurred on U.S. soil -- and in New York City nonetheless.
On September 25, 2023, the FDNY reported that with the death of EMT Hilda Vannata and retired firefighter Robert Fulco, marking the 342nd and 343rd deaths from 9/11-related illnesses, the department had now lost the same number of firefighters, EMTs, and civilian members to 9/11-related illnesses as it did on the day of the attacks. [253] [254]
The FBI has recently made public several photos from the investigation inside the Pentagon after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The images, posted to the FBI's records vault, give a new look ...
After Adolf Hitler’s declaration of war against the United States on December 11, 1941, U-boat operations were extended to East Coast of the United States, Gulf of Mexico, and to the Caribbean. So Naval Base Trinidad became a key to keeping Panama Canal, Venezuela oil and the Caribbean open. The US Navy and US Army landed on Trinidad on ...