The U.S. Navy's triumph at Mobile Bay, combined with victorious Federal ground campaigns in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, helped reelect Abraham Lincoln and doomed the Confederacy to defeat.
Steve Gronow was supposed to turn over lighthouse glass last summer. U.S. Coast Guard officials and a lens expert recently went to his mansion in Howell, 50 miles northwest of Detroit, but weren’t allowed through a gate.
The famed “Flying Fortress,” looking better than new, was put on public display Thursday morning after a restoration project that took more than a dozen years.
The fabled World War II bomber Memphis Belle has been moved into its new home at an Ohio museum after years of restoration work, but won’t go on public display until May.