In the early days of World War II an amazing story of survival unfolded when American icon WWI ace Eddie Rickenbacker and six others were plucked out of the Pacific some three weeks after their B-17 crashed into the sea.
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Picture of the Day: September 17
Cigar-smoking Calbraith Perry Rodgers set off from Sheepshead Bay, New York, on the […]
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Battle of Rennell Island: Setback in the Solomons
The tactical judgment of Admiral Robert C. Giffen may have contributed to the loss of the cruiser USS Chicago.
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Picture of the Day: September 16
Having chosen the wind-blasted dunes of Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk on the […]
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Picture of the Day: September 15
Standing over the body of a dead German soldier, the jubilant citizens of Pilsen, […]
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Picture of the Day: September 14
Margaret Higgins Sanger, born September 14, 1883, was the founder of the birth control […]
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General Francis Channing Barlow
General Francis Channing Barlow’s clean-cut, boyish appearance belied his reputation as one of the Union’s hardest-fighting divisional commanders.
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CIA’s Secret War in Tibet
In a top secret and still little-known, decade-long ‘war at the top of the world,’ the CIA fostered, trained and supplied a tenacious Tibetian resistance force in its struggle against the Communist Chinese.
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Picture of the Day: September 13
The Statue of Liberty?s torch goes on display at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 […]
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William Averell’s Cavalry Raid on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad
Despite many misgivings about the upcoming campaign, Union Brig. Gen. William Averell set out in December 1863 to raid the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad at Salem, Virginia. The frigid conditions would test the mettle of both cavalrymen and horses.