The Berlin Airlift was also called this.
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Daily Quiz for January 3, 2015
In 1876, Robert Koch made this important discovery.
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Curtiss P-40E Warhawk: A Fighter on All Fronts
Curtiss-Wright’s shark-nosed P-40 Warhawks gained their greatest fame over Burma, but the plane saw service on many fronts during World War II.
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Come and See’s Unblinking Eye
IN HIS CLASSIC 1959 book, The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle, philosopher and […]
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National D-Day Memorial Foundation President April Cheek-Messier
National D-Day Memorial director April Cheek-Messier discusses the memorial and its unique relationship to neighboring Bedford, Va.
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Letter From Military History – March 2015
In exploring the root of human conflict throughout history one cannot ignore the power of belief in a nation’s or an individual’s particular cause.
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Book Review: Section 60, Arlington National Cemetery, by Robert M. Poole
In his second history of Arlington National Cemetery, Robert Poole relates stories centering on Section 60, resting place of fallen American soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Book Review: Abducting a General, by Patrick Leigh Fermor
British Special Operations Executive veteran Leigh Fermor issues his long-awaited firsthand account of the 1944 kidnapping of the commanding German general from Crete.
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Book Review: Survivors of Stalingrad, by Reinhold Busch
Historian Reinhold Busch takes a disquieting look behind German lines during the brutal 1942-43 fight for Stalingrad.
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Book Review: A Great and Glorious Adventure, by Gordon Corrigan
British military scholar Gordon Corrigan relates the dynamics of medieval warfare and politics in his history of the Hundred Years’ War.