The Curtiss SB2C was the most heavily produced dive bomber in history, but it did not represent much of an improvement over the Douglas SBD Dauntless it was designed to replace.
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Aviation History: First Flight to Bermuda
Many pilots considered navigating to Bermuda far too risky in 1930. But an intrepid trio set off in a Stinson Detroiter, determined to prove they could handle that risk.
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World War II: Dick Suehr Flew to Defend Port Moresby
At a time when the Japanese reguarded his Bell P-39 as ‘cold meat’, Dick Suehr scored his first victory against a Zero. When he got to fly the Lockheed P-38, he did even better.
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Queho: An Indian Outcast
Queho, a clubfooted Indian outcast, became the elusive killer hermit of El Dorado canyon.
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Kiowa Chief Satanta
Kiowa chief Satanta was one of the most complicated men ever to rise from the Great Plains–a diplomat and orator of his people who did his share of killing.
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The Prohibition Rule: Murder in Sioux City
In the hard-fought battle between Iowa prohibitionists and the saloon elements of the booming riverfront town, the Rev. George C. Haddock became a martyr.
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The Indian Tax Rebellion of 1851
When San Diego County officials slapped a property tax on the dirt-poor Indians of the area, the natives complied in 1850, but then trouble came a year later when Major General Joshua Bean instructed them not to pay.
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The Tule River War
From their earth-and-rock fortification at the base of a small, solitary mountain, the Yokuts of central California were determined to defend their land.
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The Battle of White Bird Canyon: First Fight of the Nez Perce
After young warriors killed some settlers in Idaho Territory, General O.O. Howard ordered Captain David Perry at Fort Lapwai to go get them, telling him, ‘You must not get whipped.’
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Maurice Barrymore: An English Actor in the Wild West
After presenting the drama Diplomacy in Marshall, Texas, English actor Maurice Barrymore got a real taste of the wild west when he and two other cast members found themselves in deadly company–a hard-drinking hard case named Big Jim Currie.