The Seattle Museum of Flight’s meticulous B-29 restoration has returned most of the veteran bomber’s controls to working order.
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Haste Makes Waste
The Gardner cartridge was expedient to manufacture, but proved fragile
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The Lost Battle of Lima Site 85
In “officially neutral” Laos, 3,000 communist troops converged on a handful of Americans at a top-secret 5,800-foot-high mountain base
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Dredged Up From the Past: Three Cannons — Likely from the Revolutionary War — Found in Savannah River
“It could (tell) a part of the story of Savannah that has not been looked at in a very long time”
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Egotistic Brit General Turned the World Upside Down at Yorktown
The Americans won because the King’s best strategist guessed wrong about where Washington and his allies would fight
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Audiobook Review: Wildest of the Wild West
New Mexico journalist Howard Bryan authored these true tales of figures from that state’s Las Vegas, available here as an audio book
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Once a College Football Star, this Soldier was Recognized by his Captor on the Bataan Death March
The Japanese officer, a USC alum, recalled Mario “Motts” Tonelli’s game-winning touchdown against his alma mater in 1937
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After Lindbergh’s Historic Flight, a Young Pilot Chased His Own Glory. Instead, He Became an Unsolved Mystery
Just months after Charles Lindbergh’s flight, Paul Redfern sought to set a distance record in a solo attempt from the U.S. to Brazil. He almost made it.
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Book Review: The Second Battle of the Alamo
Judy Alter chronicles the efforts, sometimes competing, of two determined Texan women to preserve San Antonio’s iconic Alamo
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Torpedo Rider: Luigi Durand de la Penne
The Italian frogman earned his nation’s highest award – an honor bestowed on him by the hand of his enemy