In psychological warfare operations during the Vietnam War, O-2 observation planes played this from loudspeakers.
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Ground War: A 4-Part PBS Documentary
Ground War, a new 4-part PBS documentary, explores how man’s ingenuity and development of technological solutions has made land combat a constantly changing element in the art of war, from the phalanx to the Abrams tank.
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Deliberate Distortions Still Obscure Understanding of the Vietnam War
Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr., the founding editor of Vietnam magazine, clears up some of the deliberate distortions that continue to obscure understanding of the Vietnam War
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Daily Quiz for May 19, 2010
Before he was elected President of the United States, James Buchanan served as America’s minister to these two countries at separate times.
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Marine Showdown at Dai Do: Recollections of a Green “One Four Man”
At the village of Dai Do in early May 1968, Lance Cpl Robert Hunt, a radioman with 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, new in-country, encounters his first battle and is told he will be trained as a one four man to direct airstrikes, medevacs and resupply
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Daily Quiz for May 18, 2010
She was the "Egyptian queen who ruled as a king."
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Test Vietnam Review
In Country: Remembering the Vietnam War, edited by John Prados, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, […]
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Secrets of the Dead: Stalingrad, the Deadliest Battle
A preview of the Deadliest Battle episode of the PBS series Secrets of the Dead notes that other documentaries have featured better archival clips of the fighting for Stalingrad, but this one presents new information and fine analysis.
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Daily Quiz for May 17, 2010
Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which reopened the question of slavery in the Western territory, to help develop this.
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Daily Quiz for May 16, 2010
The Russian Empire achieved its greatest size under this monarch