The 1st Battalion of the Big Red One’s Black Lions Regiment was called into battle to help a battalion force under NVA attack in An My during the Tet Offensive in 1968.
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Details: Bridging the Chickahominy River
Union soldiers of the 5th New Hampshire infantry build a span known as the Grapevine Bridge across the Chickahominy River.
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Book Review: Here Lies Hugh Glass / A Mountain Man, a Bear and the Rise of the American Nation
Jon Coleman bites off all he can chew in Here Lies Hugh Glass, an ambitious treatise on American exceptionalism centered around the 19th-century mauling of mountain man Glass.
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Daily Quiz for January 14, 2016
On March 6, 1899, the Bayer Company patented this painkiller.
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How Did the Japanese Draft Citizens in World War II?
How Did the Japanese Draft Citizens in World War II?
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Audio: Initiation For Gun Crews On Ships During WWII
Can you guess what the initiation was during WWII for the gun crew on ships like the USS Iowa and the USS Missouri?
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Audio: What This WWII Vet Has To Say About Serving Will Have You Shedding Tears Of Patriotism
A wounded World War II talks about his injury and patriotism.
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Audio: ‘When You Get The Order To Fix Your Bayonet’- WWII Vet Remembers The Ugliness Of War
A World War II veteran recalls close combat.
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Daily Quiz for January 13, 2016
This was the first US Army combat unit in Vietnam.
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When Would a 45 Year Old Man Have Been Drafted for WWII?
When Would a 45 Year Old Man Have Been Drafted for WWII?