HISTORY
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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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A Pacifist Scribbled A Song When She Was Half-Asleep. It Became A Famous Union Battle March
The lyrics to America’s most famous marching song of the Civil War were written when their author was half-asleep and…
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That One Time the US Army Attempted to Build a Nuclear Lair in Greenland
As the Cold War heated up, with the Soviet ICBM tests conducted in the 1950s and the launch of Sputnik…
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Chiseled Canyons and a Sky That Stretches Forever
The view is spectacular from the ancient cliffside villages in the Southwest’s Four Corners region—chiseled canyons; orange, coral, and copper…
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We Remember the Fighting. But What About the Shipping?
It’s probably fair to say that most of us spend a lot more time thinking about the folks leaping from…
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