Port Watch

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. The celebrated poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was in deep despair as he rushed to Washington DC to...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. Artist's concept of Hero (NSF Drawing). Courtey of the Antarctic Journal, May/June 1968. At 21 years...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. In August 1914, Germany’s execution of the Schlieffen Plan brought Belgium into the crosshairs of...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. 92 million miles of flights were flown by U.S. Air Force pilots as they airlifted nearly 1,800,000 tons...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. Sir Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Physics posits, “Whenever one object exerts a force on...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. Long days, short nights, summer swelter, and vacation flights. That’s June for you. The start of...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. Thomas Dekker’s Elizabethan poem, written as the 16th century ended, comes to mind as the month...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. “Forward, March!” A dreaded command for most but not for the fearless 69th lead by the most...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. The Discovery Corps’ winter of 1804 was a brutal one. The Lewis and Clark Expedition chose the...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. Stumbled upon by a British sea captain, annexed by Germany, conquered by Japan and liberated by...

By Tom Marian, Buffalo Marine Service, Inc. As a year of superlatives nears its end, it is apropos that the second-to-last month of the year...