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His Sergeant in Vietnam Became His Hero. He Never Forgot It.
Willie Johnson was a 35-year-old African American from South Carolina with a wife and six kids. What did I, a…
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Abraham Lincoln’s Embrace of Foreign-Born Fighters
In the earliest days of Union enlistment in New York City, anyone willing to volunteer was welcome at recruitment offices—including…
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How Erwin Rommel Has Been Lost in Translation
In late October 1917, a detachment of German mountain troopers weary from hard Alpine fighting on the Isonzo front were…
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Meet the Heroes Who Delivered Aid and Comforted the Dying on the Battlefields of World War I
In the agony of trench warfare and no man’s land, the sound of a skitter and a wet nose —…
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America, It Seems More and More, Could Use a Politician Like Henry Clay Again
Henry Clay, nicknamed the Star of the West and the Great Compromiser, served as Speaker of the U.S. House of…
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These Fighting ‘Mighty Midgets’ Packed Big Guns
The Asiatic-Pacific Theater in World War II culminated with a grueling, bloody amphibious campaign to capture one Japanese-held seabound stronghold…
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Why The War Hammer Was A Mighty Weapon
The war hammer, as crude as it seems, was a practical solution to a late-medieval arms race between offense and…
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Build your own version of Flying Tiger ace R.T. Smith’s shark-mouthed Curtiss P-40
Probably no other aircraft from World War II are as easily recognized as the shark-mouthed Curtiss P-40s flown by the…
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Letters from the Sheridan Field Hospital
A gloomy and tragic scene—one with which the inhabitants of the oft-contested city of Winchester, Va., were unfortunately all too familiar—unfolded…
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Her Weather Report Delayed D-Day by a Day — and Ensured Its Success
On June 6, 1944, over 160,000 Allied troops were sent to cross the English Channel onto the beaches of Normandy,…
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