For 85 years, railroad guns were regarded as the ultimate weapon, large enough to do substantial damage but movable to wherever railroad tracks could go. Unparalleled bunker busters, they also terrorized civilians by firing on cities from afar.
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Dale Haberman and the Bite of the Black Widow
Northrop’s P-61 Black Widow was the first aircraft designed from the ground up as a night fighter. In just a single year of combat, it carved out a widely feared reputation among Japanese and Luftwaffe aircrews that flew night missions.
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Daily Quiz for September 3, 2008
In the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, they catastrophically defeated the Serbs:
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Daily Quiz for September 2, 2008
This operation started in 1942 with the goal of transferring soldiers and equipment from North America to England for a planned cross-Channel invasion in 1943:
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Daily Quiz for September 1, 2008
They won the 1936 transcontinental Bendix Race:
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Daily Quiz for August 31, 2008
This famous baseball player was a jet pilot in the Korean War who, after belly-landing his shot-up and burning airplane, jumped out and made his greatest slide home:
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Daily Quiz for August 30, 2008
The FBI's «Ten Most Wanted Fugitives» list debuted in this year:
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Daily Quiz for August 29, 2008
He was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Military Valor:
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Daily Quiz for August 28, 2008
He was the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa:
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Stumbling in Sherman’s Path
Standard histories of Major General William T. Sherman’s celebrated March to the Sea invariably portray the Confederacy’s response as inconsequential. Such broad generalizations may assuage wounded Southern pride, but they also rewrite history.