Mark Carlson, Author at HistoryNet

Photo of the bungalow of Fred and Ma Barker where both were slain after a four hour gun battle with the F.B.I.

A ‘School of Crime, With Ma Barker Their Teacher’

by Mark Carlson1/23/20241/17/2024

No argument that Kate Barker and her sons and cohorts were outlaws. But were they really as deviant as Herbert Hoover believed?

There Were Reasons Why American Submariners Damned Their Own Torpedoes

by Mark Carlson1/16/20241/18/2024

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The Turkestan Incident

by Mark Carlson12/13/202312/13/2023

Photo of the Königsberg

How a Boer Hunter Tracked an Elusive German Cruiser

by Mark Carlson3/10/20231/30/2023

SA-2 surface to air missile F-105 trailing smoke just after interception by an SA-2. The SA-2 did not actually hit an aircraft—the fuse automatically went off when it neared the target, throwing deadly fragments over a wide area. (U.S. Air Force photo)

How White House Interference And Enemy Intelligence Cost American Airmen Their Lives In Vietnam

by Mark Carlson10/11/202211/22/2022

What Happened to the B-25s of ‘Catch-22’?

by Mark Carlson8/3/20228/3/2022

Before CGI, This Director Needed to Build His Own B-25 Fleet

by Mark Carlson8/3/20228/3/2022

At Fort Sumter, This Bizarre, Floating Contraption Helped Start the Civil War

by Mark Carlson4/12/20224/12/2022

Bell X-1: Dropping the Orange Beast That Broke the Sound Barrier

by Mark Carlson10/14/202110/12/2023

This Forward Air Controller Took Death-Defying Risks to Aid Special Forces

by Mark Carlson6/16/20216/28/2022