The man who knew too much risked death at the hands of the Germans and his ownbodyguards at Dieppe.
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Molly MacGuires in Pennsylvania Coal Regions
A series of violent crimes was plaguing Pennsylvania’s coal country. Mine owners placed the blame on a secret society of Irishmen–and took steps to wipe it out.
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The 1st Aero Squadron and the Pursuit of Pancho Villa
Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing’s 1916 Mexican expedition was a learning experience for the U.S. Army’s first air arm—mainly in regard to its own deficiencies.
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Captain Eddie Rickenbacker: America’s World War I Ace of Aces
When America’s WWI Ace of Aces Edward Rickenbacker became president of Eastern Air Lines, he said: ‘I will always keep in mind that I am in the greatest business in the world … and I can serve humanity more completely in my line of endeavor than in any other.’
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D-Day: 6th Airborne Division’s Glider Four Encountered An Unexpected Turn of Events
The 6th Airborne Division’s objective was to seize and hold two bridges east of the Normandy beachhead. One small element of lost souls briefly took a third.
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John Hill Hewitt: Dixie’s Original One-Man Band
John Hill Hewitt did it all. He played three instruments. He penned poems and essays, and staged theater productions. And he churned out one hit tune after another.
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Harry Macarthy: The Bob Hope of the Confederacy
He could make tired soldiers laugh, and his ‘Bonnie Blue Flag’ churned southern audiences into a frenzy. That was why Harry Macarthy was loved from one end of the confederacy to the other.
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Peter Francisco: Remarkable American Revolutionary War Soldier
A six-and-a-half-foot-tall Hercules who wielded a six-foot-long broadsword, Peter Francisco was arguably the most remarkable soldier of the American Revolutionary War.
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World War II: Operation Matterhorn
In an effort to assure Chiang Kai-shek that the United States was ready to stop Japan from taking all of China, the U.S. Army Air Forces deployed the first Boeing B-29 in that theater of operations.
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Battle of Chickamauga: 21st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and Their Colt’s Revolving Rifles
‘My God, We Thought You Had a Division Here!’ The 21st Ohio Infantry’s unique repeating weaponry was its salvation – and nearly its undoing – at Chickamauga.