When soldiers’ lives were in the balance, they could count on the air ambulances to come through for them, no matter what the risk.
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Battle for Saigon
In the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Viet Cong prepared carefully for its objectives inside the Saigon Circle. The result would be a plethora of battles–and battles within battles.
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John Glenn: First American to Orbit the Earth
In February 1962 — just nine months after President John F. Kennedy called for the U.S. to put a man on the moon before 1970 — Mercury astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.
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President Ronald Reagan: Inside Story of Reagan’s Berlin Challenge to ‘Tear Down This Wall!’
For most of Ronald Reagan’s advisers and diplomats, the president’s June 1987 Berlin speech was much too confrontational — a disaster in the making. Efforts to delete the call on Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘tear down this wall’ continued even as the president’s motorcade made its way to the Brandenburg Gate.
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Frontier Hero Davy Crockett
Already one of the most celebrated men in America in 1835, the restless Tennessean sought adventure and new opportunity in Texas… where the Alamo and immortality awaited him.
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Sitting Bull and the Mounties
After the Little Bighorn and other 1876 confrontations with the U.S. Army, the great Hunkpapa Sioux Leader took his people north into Canada, where James Walsh and other scarlet-clad lawmen insisted on enforcing the white mother’s laws.
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Picture of the Day: December 20
Slater’s Mill In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 23-year-old British subject Samuel Slater began production of […]
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Picture of the Day: December 21
Fetterman Massacre U.S. Army Captain William J. Fetterman once boasted, ‘Give me 80 men […]
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Picture of the Day: December 18
Jane Austen Best known for her novels Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Emma […]
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Picture of the Day: December 19
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol On December 19, 1843, British author Charles Dickens published […]