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Dogs of war: Historian shows the role of canines in World War II
Seventy years since the United States entered World War II after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a BYU historian has a new look at an often overlooked breed of soldier.
Dec 05, 2011 |
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NOAA Locates U.S. Navy Ship Sunk in World War II Battle
(PhysOrg.com) -- A NOAA-led research mission has located and identified the final resting place of the YP-389, a U.S. Navy patrol boat sunk approximately 20 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC, by a German ...
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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DNA may identify sailor 68 years after Pearl Harbor
The call came unexpectedly a few weeks ago, the sharp ring and a calm voice asking whether she was Starring Winfield's sister.
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May 26, 2009 |
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Red, white and solar: 160,000 military homes to get rooftop arrays
The last time I checked in with SolarCity was back in June when underwater hockey enthusiast Lyndon Rive's San Mateo, Calif.-based photovoltaic powerhouse had just received a whopping $280 million investment from that ...
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Sep 12, 2011 |
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Historian: 3 possible Japanese airmen for skull
(AP) -- The skull found in Pearl Harbor believed to be from a Japanese pilot in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack could belong to one of three airmen who were aboard a torpedo plane that was shot down where the surprising discovery ...
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Jul 23, 2011 |
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Nation's fight against cyber intruders goes local
The next frontier in the fight to keep crucial electronic networks safe from harm will play out as close to home as Town Hall and require more involvement from private industry, which controls 85 percent of the infrastructure, ...
Jul 20, 2011 |
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WWII shipwrecks could threaten US coast
On the evening of Feb. 2, 1942, an unarmed tanker with 66,000 barrels of crude oil on board was steaming in the Atlantic, about 90 miles off Ocean City, Md. Without warning, it was struck by German torpedoes. The attack set ...
Jul 17, 2011 |
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Tut, tut: Microbial growth in pharaoh's tomb suggests burial was a rush job
In the tomb of King Tutankhamen, the elaborately painted walls are covered with dark brown spots that mar the face of the goddess Hathor, the silvery-coated baboons -- in fact, almost every surface.
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Jun 08, 2011 |
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ONR's TechSolutions creating green ideas that light up ships and submarines
One Sailor's request to replace humming fluorescent bulbs with a quiet alternative inspired the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to create the Solid State Lighting (SSL) project, currently being evaluated aboard ...
Feb 24, 2011 |
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Stuxnet worm brings cyber warfare out of virtual world
A mysterious computer worm that has struck Iran has raised the spectre of a cyber attack as a new weapon of war, a danger NATO identifies as a key threat, experts say.
Oct 01, 2010 |
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MIT historian examines path of war in new book
"Japanese psychology," wrote Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan at the outset of World War II, is "fundamentally unlike that of any Western nation." The Japanese mentality “cannot be measured ...
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Is there really a cyberwar? Term might be misused
(AP) -- Is there really a "cyberwar" going on? Some officials and computer security companies say yes, arguing that armies of hackers are stealing online secrets and using the Internet to attack infrastructure such as power ...
May 05, 2010 |
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NATO's cyber-brains gaze at the future of war
Behind the walls of a high-security lab, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's top cyber-minds are trying to predict the evolution of conflict in an Internet-dependent world.
Apr 24, 2010 |
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