German U-515 departs from France in 1944, bound for the African Gold Coast to hunt Allied ships. One thousand miles to the south, the U.S. Navy launches a new hunter-killer task force–a tactical combination of destroyers, escorts, carriers, and aircraft–to prevent German U-Boat resurgence. Witness the showdown between U-boat ace Werner Henke and U.S. Navy …
AP archives 2015 Pashtu/Natsound Rare footage of Taliban fighters on guard in a mountainous province in Afghanistan has shown them to be armed and ready for any attacks from outside. The Taliban controls most of Afghanistan and has imposed strict Islamic rule – those who don’t obey face the death penalty. Many blame the Taliban …
2008 Coalition forces killed four Taliban fighters, including a targeted Taliban commander who was dressed as a woman, during an operation to disrupt the Taliban’s roadside bomb and foreign fighter networks in Ghanzni province late November 2008 Coalition forces killed Haji Yakub, a Taliban commander in Qarabagh district, which is located approximately 290 km southwest …
Ghazni City is the Capital of Ghazni Province, on the strategic Kabul–Kandahar Highway and provides a small airport for local transport. The province of Ghazni has 19 districts and over 1 million inhabitants. The Taliban Spring Offensive has been vicious and deadly in Ghazni City as well as in Kabul. RFE Reporting DAY 4 13 Aug …
Ghazni City is the Capital of Ghazni Province, on the strategic Kabul–Kandahar Highway and provides a small airport for local transport. The province of Ghazni has 19 districts and over 1 million inhabitants. It has been the graveyard for many U.S. troops and Afghan military and police members as well as hundreds of Taliban in the recent …
VOA Carla Babb It might sound like science fiction, but the general in charge of the U.S. military’s air transports across the globe says refueling and resupplying the military may soon be a job that’s literally out of this world. “If I can resupply from space I can go across globe in about 30 minutes,” …
NASA Assigns Crews to First Test Flights, Missions on Commercial Spacecraft NASA introduced to the world on Friday the first U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made, commercial spacecraft to and from the International Space Station – an endeavor that will return astronaut launches to U.S. soil for the first time since the space shuttle’s retirement in …
NASA, ULA Launch Parker Solar Probe on Historic Journey to Touch Sun Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake a landmark mission. The spacecraft will transmit its first science observations in December, …
