The left prong of Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne’s invasion of New York found itself caught up in a most costly sideshow.
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Hans Klein Recalls His Time in Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps
During his time with the Hermann Göring Division in North Africa, Hans Klein’s devotion to the Afrika Korps and its commander, Erwin Rommel, was absolute.
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A Moment of Elation: The Liberation of Paris
Both political and military expediency were factors in the return of the French capital to its people.
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Takeo Yoshikawa: World War II Japanese Pearl Harbor Spy
The Pearl Harbor spy provided valuable intelligence to Japanese war planners prior to the surprise attack.
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Nuremberg Trial
Unprecedented in history, the Nuremberg Trial brought high-ranking Nazis to justice. This is the story of how the trial took shape in postwar Germany.
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Stepping Stone to the Pacific: Capture of Morotai
The conquest of a small Pacific island brought significant U.S. air power to bear on the Japanese-held Philippines.
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Japanese War Crime Trials
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East meted out justice to Japanese war criminals at locations throughout Asia.
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Gas Balloons: View From Above the Civil War Battlefield
Led by pioneering balloonist Thaddeus Lowe, daredevil aeronauts on both sides of the war took to the skies in flimsy balloons to eyeball their opponents’ every move. Soldiers on the ground often did not take kindly to the unwanted attention.
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Siege of Savannah During the American Revolutionary War
In some of the bloodiest fighting of the Revolutionary War, American and French troops failed to take Savannah.
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1st Louisiana Special Battalion at the First Battle of Manassas
Recruited from New Orleans’ teeming waterfront by soldier of fortune Roberdeau Wheat, the 1st Louisiana Special Battalion more than lived up to its pugnacious nickname–Wheat’s Tigers–at the First Battle of Manassas.