The rough-hewn 3rd Arkansas made its presence felt in the Eastern Theater
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The South Pacific’s Premier World War II Museum
“Given Base Button’s importance to the Allied war effort in the Pacific Theatre, if you had to select somewhere in the South Pacific, Santo deserves the recognition…”
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‘Old Brains’ and ‘Granny Lee’: Civil War Soldiers Often Gave Their Generals Pointed Nicknames
No general experienced a greater turnaround in nicknames than Robert E. Lee.
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Billy Mitchell’s Aerial Blitzkrieg
More than a century ago, the U.S. Army Air Service embarked on its first major air campaign, presaging the combined-arms assaults to follow.
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John Shelby, the Chip-Toothed Cowboy Turned Combat Soldier
Busted down in rank four times and perhaps the first soldier to receive a Purple Heart without being wounded, Sergeant John Shelby nonetheless proved himself on the battlefield
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In Latest Film, Director Espen Sandberg Explores the Man Behind the First Successful South Pole Expedition
In AMUNDSEN: THE GREATEST EXPEDITION, Espen Sanberg, Academy Award-nominated director of “Kon-Tiki”, explores the […]
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Ted Williams Goes to War
Red Sox legend Ted Williams proudly served as a Marine Corps aviator during World War II—it was his service in Korea that came as a surprise
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‘Dead men are heavier than broken hearts’: Author Raymond Chandler and the Great War
“Once you have had to lead a platoon into direct machine-gun fire,” Raymond Chandler would later write, “nothing is ever the same again.”
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Book Review: Prisoner of Wars / A Hmong Fighter Pilot’s Story of Escaping Death and Confronting Life
This book details the U.S. Air Force/CIA program recruiting young airmen from Laos’ Hmong mountain tribes to fly dangerous missions against communist forces.
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Early Birdman Bud Mars: An Aerial Daredevil Wows the World
Pioneer aviator Bud Mars thrilled airshow crowds, narrowly escaping death on several occasions, and was among the first to fly airplanes in the Far East