In 1905 a Japanese admiral who fancied himself the reincarnation of Horatio Nelson waged a battle for the ages against a Russian fleet at Tsushima Strait
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See How US Air Force Special Ops Squadrons Took on Dangerous Missions in Vietnam
An array of specialized U.S. Air Force units took on some of the Vietnam War’s most dangerous missions
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‘From the River to the Sea’ Book Review
John Sedgwick describes the race between railroad barons of the American West to reach the Pacific Coast with tracks
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‘Richard III’ Book Review
MIchael Hicks presents a revealing biography of Richard III, last Yorkist king of England, amid the Wars of the Roses
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A Bloody Assault on Angaur Island Proved the Folly of “Mopping Up” Operations
In late 1944, a now-forgotten battle led to some of the Pacific War’s most doomed and wasteful clashes against the Japanese.
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Savage Showdown: Cole’s Cavalry vs Mosby’s Rangers
Partisan Rangers and Cole’s Cavalry spent early 1864 in a bitter struggle for the upper hand in “Mosby’s Confederacy.”
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He Was The First U.S. Soldier Killed in Ground Combat in Vietnam
Spc. 4 James T. Davis lost his life tracking down an enemy signal in Vietnam
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Shooting Star: How Lockheed’s P-80 Paved the Way for Future American Fighters
America’s first operational jet fighter was quickly outclassed by sweptwing successors and saw its greatest utility as a trainer of prop pilots
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From Here to Eternity: Inside the Pre-War Hawaii Life That Inspired the Book & Movie
James Jones built his best-selling novel, From Here to Eternity, around his real-life experiences as a U.S. Army private in Hawaii before World War II
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Book Review: The Katyn Massacre, 1940
Thomas Urban relates the April/May 1940 massacre of some 22,000 Polish officers by soldiers of Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union during World War II