“It was horrifying,” David Dushman recalled. “We threw all of our canned food at them and drove on quickly, to keep chasing the fascists”
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The Coast Guard’s Only Medal of Honor Recipient Used a Higgins Boat to Shield Marines on Guadalcanal
When asked if he was able to go back and extract the overwhelmed Marines, the 22-year-old Munro reportedly gave a confident, “Hell, yeah!”
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‘Women of Valor’ Book Review
Ellen Hampton relates the WWII exploits of a group of American and French female ambulance drivers known as the Rochambelles
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China’s Type 79 Submachine Gun
The Chinese Type 79 submachine gun was used in a war in Vietnam between former communist allies after U.S. forces left.
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Into Cold Air: Was an Airship the First to Reach the North Pole?
Of the multiple early explorers who claimed to have reached the North Pole, only the crew of the airship Norge definitively achieved their goal
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Book Review: Blood and Treasure
Award-winning writing duo Bob Drury and Tom Clavin relate the exploits of iconic frontiersman Daniel Boone
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Sitting Ducks Over Normandy: A C-47 Pilot Remembers D-Day
A C-47 pilot gives his son a firsthand look at the dangerous missions he flew in flak-filled skies on D-Day and beyond.
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Dauntless Forever: The Dive Bomber That Changed the Course of World War II
The ‘slow but deadly’ Douglas SBD dive bomber employed 1930s technology and tactics to turn the tide in the Pacific War
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Historian James Holland on the World War II German Captain Who Refused Orders to Kill Jews
You’ll be surprised by what happened to Capt. Josef Sibille when he told his battalion commander in 1941 that no one in his company would kill Jews.
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SOS Indianapolis: Behind the Sinking of the Heavy Cruiser
It took a sailor, a schoolboy and survivors more than half a century to disperse the cloud hanging over the sinking of the heavy cruiser