More than 90 percent of the supposed remains of U.S. military personnel missing in Vietnam that are brought in by local villagers turn out to be bogus.
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Vietnam: The Battle Of Hamburger Hill
Information On The Battle of Hamburger Hill During The Vietnam War, also known as Hill 937, and as depicted in the 1987 Movie “Hamburger Hill.”
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D-Day: U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry Division’s Desperate Hours on Omaha Beach
As soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry Division leaped from their landing craft into the choppy waters off Omaha Beach, many cursed the landing-craft pilots who had deposited them too far away from the invasion beach.
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Horace Pippin: World War I Veteran and Artist
World War I veteran Horace Pippin used art to purge himself of the horrors of the trenches.
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Abraham Lincoln: Deciding the Fate of 300 Indians Convicted of War Crimes in Minnesota’s Great Sioux Uprising
Even as the Civil War intensified, President Abraham Lincoln faced the aftereffects of a bloody Indian war in Minnesota. More than 300 men faced execution, but the death sentences required the president’s approval.
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Caesar’s Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus
On August 9, 48 bc, the power struggle for Rome reached its climax as Gaius Julius Caesar faced off against the commander he regarded as the most formidable adversary of his military career: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.
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Battle of Chickamauga: Colonel John T. Wilder and the Lightning Brigade
Colonel John T. Wilder’s’Lightning Brigade’ did all it could to stave off Union disaster at the Battle of Chickamauga.
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Early Covert Action on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
In 1961 and 1962 the CIA-trained and -sponsored 1st Observation Group was formed to counter Communist operations along the trail.
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Task Force Dorland at Hill 63 During the Vietnam War
The 3rd NVA Regiment thought they owned the Que Son Valley. But the 196th Light Infantry Brigade Chargers begged to differ.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Vietnam War Disengagement Strategy
Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker’s charge from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 was to de-escalate the Vietnam conflict without losing the war. He did just that.