The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous Confederate States of America, and so far were able to fight the Union Army.
It may be hard to fathom in today's high-tech world, but many nations used gas-filled balloons during both World Wars as active and passive defenses to keep enemy aircraft away from a target. We're ...
Editor’s note: Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles appears in every other Sunday’s print edition of the Times-Herald. Concrete bomb shelters on the Navy’s former Mare Island shipyard provide rock-solid ...