Disasters Documents

Alexander Graham Bell wrote a letter to his wife on the 8th of December, 1918.  In it he comments that the worst of the "Spanish Influenza" seems...

"Operation Valkyrie" was the code name for the Wolf’s-Lair plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.  Although the bomb exploded, on 20 July 1944, ...

This document, released by NASA, shows early objections to the design of the O-Rings and the potential for joint leakage.  The document is dated ...

Personnel from the Marshall Space Flight Center, in Alabama, objected to lowering the standards for the SRM (Solid Rocket Motor) O-Rings and clevis jo...

Personnel from the Marshall Space Flight Center, in Alabama, objected to lowering the standards for the SRM (Solid Rocket Motor) O-Rings and clevis jo...

NASA personnel, at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, were very concerned about Morton Thiokol's position on the O-ring and clevis-joint ...

The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (by David Hugh Farmer) says the birthplace of Saint Patrick is “somewhere in the west between the mouth of the S...

Thirty years after the crash, Pan Am's first officer (Robert Bragg) told his story in Flight Safety Australia: As we were turning left, I looked back...

566 CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION PEARL HARBOR ATTACK[1095] TESTIMONY OF LT. COL KERMIT A. TYLER, AIR CORPS, ORLANDO, FLA., ARMY AIR FORCE BOARD(The wit...

Bookcover image of Rettung über die Ostsee. Die Flucht aus den Ostseehäfen, (Rescue on the Baltic Sea: The escape from the Baltic Seaports),...

This map image depicts the route which Pliny the Elder took as he left Misenum (today's Capo Miseno) for the port town of Stabiae.  He was planni...

From the safety of a ship, moored in the Port Royal harbor, Edmund Heath wrote a detailed account of what he had seen on the morning of June 7, 1692.&...