The Tunisian Campaign is still an object lesson in the complexity of military operations, how “in war, even the simplest things are difficult.”
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Daily Quiz for February 18, 2010
This was Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen’s age when he scored his first confirmed aerial kill.
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Daily Quiz for February 17, 2010
This movie won the first Academy Award for Best Picture ever given.
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Ed Lansdale’s Black Warfare in 1950s Vietnam
Edward Lansdale, working undercover as an assistant air attache at Saigon’s U.S. Embassy in the mid-1950s, led the CIA’s Saigon Military Mission to apply psychological warfare campaigns, such as rumors and black leaflets, against Viet MInh Communists
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Patrolling Guadalcanal
As a young intelligence officer serving in Lt. Col. William “Wild Bill” McKelvy’s 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, the future best-selling author William H. Whyte learned a lot about his Japanese opponents, the Marine Corps, and himself.
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Daily Quiz for February 15, 2010
The Dowding System was crucial in this battle.
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Daily Quiz for February 14, 2010
Lenin received assistance from this group in returning to Russia to foment revolution.
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What is the biggest fashion crime in history?
What is the biggest fashion crime in history?
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Daily Quiz for February 13, 2010
The Kofun Period in Japanese history, roughly 300 – 710 AD, got its name from these.