In the popular Arkansas resort town, members of the police department and sheriff’s office resorted to violence in March 1899 –against each other.
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Casualty Evacuation Helicopters: Reevaluating the Role of the Dustoff in the Vietnam War
While it improved the survival rate and confidence level of troops in Vietnam, medevac often distorted the tactical shape of battles.
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How Wyatt Earp Spent 1872: Buffalo Hunting — and Getting Arrested in Brothels
The future lawman and O.K. Corral legend spent an eventful year in Illinois.
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Sergeant Alfredo ‘Freddy’ Gonzalez: Marine’s Sacrifice in the Battle of Hue
With the 1996 commissioning of the guided-missile destroyer USS Alfredo Gonzalez, a Marine Medal of Honor recipient’s legacy lives on.
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Operation Market Garden: History’s Greatest Airborne Assault
It was hoped that Operation Market Garden would shorten the war, but the largest airborne operation of World War II failed in its main objectives.
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USS Franklin: Struck by a Japanese Dive Bomber, She was the Ship that Wouldn’t Die
Franklin‘s fire marshal, Lieutenant Stanley Graham, spoke for her whole crew: ‘Boys, we got pressure in the lines, we got hoses. Let’s get in there and save her.’
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Operation Market Garden: 2nd Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment Defend Arnhem Bridge
The fate of the embattled paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge rested with the men of the South Staffords.
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Brave Jolly Green
The entire North Vietnamese Army was on the move, but that didn’t stop the Air Force’s search and rescue helicopters.
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Alfred Rascon: A Case of Forgotten Valor During the Vietnam War
In February 2000, 33 years after medic Alfred Rascon saved two lives in action in War Zone D, he finally received the Medal of Honor.
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USS Liscome Bay: Hit By a Torpedo Near Makin Atoll During World War II
As the escort carrier Liscome Bay turned to launch its aircraft off Makin Atoll on November 24, 1943, Lt. Cmdr. Sunao Tabata of I-175 found himself presented with a target that submariners dream of.