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The end of the Dancing Mouse: The USS Edsall sinks, as captured by the attacking Japanese task force. Source: US Naval History and Heritage Command / Public Domain.
13 NOV 2024 · 3 MIN

The Dancing Mouse: USS Edsall Wreck Rediscovered After 80 Years

It is March, 1942, and the US is reeling from the Japanese surprise attack on her surface fleet at Pearl Harbor three months before. A lone, Clemson-class destroyer, the USS Edsall, crosses…
Lionel “Buster” Crabb in diving gear off Gibraltar, 1944 (Coote, R G G (Lt) / Public Domain)
3 AUG 2024 · 6 MIN

Wet Work: The Story of Buster Crabb

In early 1956 Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party, and the Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin arrived on a diplomatic mission to Britain aboard the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze. For the duration…