The longest war in American history wears on, with no end in sight. Afghanistan, The Graveyard of Empires. Great Britain and The Soviet Union abandoned their occupations. Before them: Alexander the Great, the Mauryans, the Kabul Shahi, the Arabs, the Mongols, the Timurids; names that shaped the history books were all driven in defeat from […]
March of 1943, a lone PT Boat is sent on a desperate reconnaissance mission to a remote atoll in the Solomon Islands. A Japanese jamming station may be operating somewhere among the hundreds of jungle-covered islands of Ontong-Java, and the Brass needs more information. The closest Navy presence is PT-243, assigned to the backwater of […]