Co-authors Don Chaput and David D. de Haas recount the legendary Earps’ last family gathering in turn-of-the-century southern California.
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Remembering Jasenovac Concentration Camp
While the horrors of World War II concentration camps are well known, Jasenovac was considered—even by the Nazis—to have had especially hellish conditions.
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Book Review: Seven Days in Hell
David O’Keefe relates the July 25, 1944, Battle of Verrières Ridge, a disastrous one for Canada’s Black Watch Regiment
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‘Never Forget’ Rose Created for Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Centennial
“Having a rose named Never Forget will be a reminder and help to perpetuate the message that we must never forget; that we are united with and honor all those served and sacrificed on behalf of America in times of war and armed conflict”
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Why Bombs Blew Up On Fighters in the Vietnam War
When bombs began exploding prematurely over Vietnam, killing aircrews, new fuzes were designed—but more people would die before a solution was found.
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James Baldwin’s Challenge to America: Not Your Negro and Not Willing to Settle
The esteemed 20th-century writer demanded that White society accept its culpability in the betrayal of Black people
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Why Were Aircraft Markings for the U.S. Army Air Forces Only Applied on the Top Side of the Left Wing?
A closer look at why U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft had distinctive markings, and the purpose they served during World War II.
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Nikita Khrushchev Details the Cuban Missile Crisis
In his memoir, excerpted in LIFE magazine in January 1971, Khrushchev writes that the 1962 crisis was a “triumph of Soviet foreign policy and a personal triumph.”
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Deceitful Children’s Toys of the Third Reich
Hitler’s regime corrupted an impressionable generation.
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How ‘Speedy Pete’ Piloted the Fastest Flight Ever Made by a Manned Aircraft
Piloting X-15s to a record Mach 6.7 and the fringes of space, U.S. Air Force Major Pete Knight earned the Harmon Trophy and nickname “Speedy Pete”