Somali pirates hijacked an oil tanker owned by an Iraqi businessman. Instead of paying the ransom, his Basra-based tribe (Al-Shaghanba) mobilized.
They coordinated an operation with overseas contacts, intercepted the ship, captured 7 pirates, and rescued the crew themselves.
I think people still don't realize how insane WW2 really was. Number of military planes produced during WW2
America: 300.000 planes
Soviets: 140.000 planes
Britain: 130.000 planes
Germany: 120.000 planes
Japan: 90.000 planes
Today the US military has around 13.000 planes
The last footage of Harry R. Truman, a WWI veteran who refused to evacuate his lodge before the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980, sealing his fate beneath the volcanic debris along with his 16 cats.