The U.S. 93rd Bomb Group saw action over Western Europe, North Africa, Italy and Rumania.
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Operation Vittles: The Allied Airlift that Saved Berlin
A massive airlift into a beleaguered Berlin showed the Soviets that a post-WWII blockade would not work.
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The Withdrawal from Khe Sanh
Two months after withstanding the most ferocious siege of the Vietnam War, Khe Sanh was abandoned to the enemy.
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Interview: Dr. Roger Olaf Egeberg / General Douglas MacArthur’s Personal Physician and Aide-De-Camp
As General Douglas MacArthur’s personal physician, aide-de-camp and right-hand man, ‘Doc’ Egeberg saw the man behind the general’s stars.
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Bill Lancaster: Lost in the Sahara After Attempting to Break the England-Cape Town Flight Speed Record
Help came 29 years too late for Captain Bill Lancaster, missing on a record-chasing flight from England to South Africa.
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American Revolutionary War: Battle of King’s Mountain
The clash at King’s Mountain between Patriots and Tories began Britain’s long descent to Yorktown.
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World War II: In the Footsteps of Easy Company During a Band of Brothers Tour
The tumult and jubilation surrounding her was a celebration of the liberation of Eindhoven […]
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DC-3 Airliner
The Douglas Aircraft Company’s Grand Old Lady of the Skies — the DC-3 — still plies the airways it pioneered as the first practical airliner.
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Lores Bonney: Australian Female Pilot
Whether circumnavigating Australia, flying from Brisbane to London, or from Brisbane to Cape Town, Lores Bonney heard variations on the same theme: ‘This is no place for a woman.’ By 1937, she had proved all the naysayers wrong.
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America’s Civil War: Rebel’s Stand at Drewry’s Bluff
While Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac slowly advanced on Richmond in May 1862, the Union Navy made its own play to seize the Confederate capital.