At a critical moment during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, the order was given for the blacked-out US aircraft carriers to turn on their lights to assist American pilots returning to their ships in the dark. “We stood open-mouthed on the deck for a moment,” wrote one naval officer, “at the sheer audacity of asking the Japs to come and get us, then a spontaneous cheer went up… Let them come if they dared. Japs or no Japs, the Navy was taking care of its own; our pilots were not ex
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week, many of them related to the collapse of Baltimore s Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was struck by a
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Social media users shared a range of false claims this week, many of them related to the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was struck by a container ship. Here are the facts: A video said to show a large explosion on the bridge before the structure fell dates to 2022 and has been identified as showing an explosion that caused the partial collapse of the Kerch Bridge, linking Crimea with Russia. The captain of the ship is Indian, not Ukrainian. Angela Chao, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s sister-in-law, who died in a February accident, did not head the company that owns the ship.