Death in the Texarkana Switchyard

About 10 o’clock on a Friday evening in April 1926, Louis Riley Burns climbed on top of a boxcar in Texarkana, Texas. As a switchman for the Cotton Belt Railroad, his job was to get on top of the cars and give signals to the engineers and conductors on the ground.

Flying Coffee Cups

I'm no military expert, but my guess is that hand-to-hand combat doesn't often take place on the open seas. Yet that's what happened early one morning in 1944 during World War II in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.