The 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut killed 241 U.S. military personnel and was a harbinger of a vicious new era in terrorism
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Video: An Oral History Interview With Casey Janiszewski, WWII Navy Veteran
Casey Janiszewski served as an aviation radioman in a squadron of the Black Cats, based in the Philippines during World War II. The squadron received many air medals and the Distinguished Flying Cross. The interview is part of a series of oral histories being collected by Liz Gilmore Williams on behalf of the the Honoring Our Veterans Club of Sun City Carolina Lakes in Fort Mill, SC.
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Type 94 Infantry Mortar
The Japanese Type 94 mortar proved devastating in action against Chinese forces during World War II
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Video: The Gentleman Next Door-Trailer
WWII RAF Spitfire pilot (and ace) John Wilkinson is featured in this short episode of the Old Guys and Their Airplanes series.
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How Zachary Taylor’s Death Changed the Course of American History
All of the land that Mexico owned north of the Rio Grande River was […]
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Book Review: Titan
William R. Nester examines Great Britain’s Napoleonic-era rise into a global military power
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Book Review: The Man Who Captured Washington
John McCavitt and Christopher T. George profile Robert Ross, the British general forever remembered for burning Washington during the War of 1812
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Book Review: The Campaigns of Sargon II
Sarah Melville sheds light on ancient Assyrian imperialism and geopolitics during the reign of Sargon II
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Book Review: The Boy in the Mask
Dick Benson-Gyles recounts the life of the man behind the heroic World War I icon known as Lawrence of Arabia
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Book Review: Victoria’s Scottish Lion
Adrian Greenwood tracks the remarkable rise of Scottish-born Colin Campbell through the 19th-century British army ranks