Capt. William Albracht did not want to go to Firebase Kate. “There was nothing […]
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Book Review: Cherokee Bill / Black Cowboy—Indian Outlaw
Art T. Burton reveals Cherokee Bill, one of the deadliest badmen of wild and woolly Indian Territory.
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Holocaust Survivor, Medal of Honor Recipient’s Story Comes to Life in Graphic Novel
The newest edition of “Medal of Honor,” a graphic series produced by the Association of the U.S. Army, spotlights the Korean War — and pre-war — heroics of Tibor Rubin, a Holocaust survivor and Medal of Honor recipient.
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‘Their resolve became steel’: WWI Museum Explores French Fashion During the Great War
In its latest exhibition titled “Silk and Steel: French Fashion, Women, and WWI,” the […]
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The Day We Lost Charlie: a Secret Mission and a Sudden Death
How a secret mission in Vietnam brought an inexperienced helicopter pilot into a Viet Cong ambush
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Book Review: Crucible of Hell
Saul David recalls Operation Iceberg, the grueling and horrific 1945 campaign to capture Okinawa
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Book Review: Some Redcoats Turned Coats and Became Patriots
1770 street brawl polarized British soldiers who had melded with colonial community
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The Soldier Vote: How Union Troops Propelled Lincoln to a Second Term
With the nation’s future at stake, Army of the Potomac soldiers once loyal to George McClellan propelled Lincoln to a second term
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Learn the Basics of Good Grooming, Courtesy of the DoD
Didn’t you know that according to the famed male model Derek Zoolander “there’s a […]
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Newton J. Jones, Makeup Artist to the Spies
A peacetime Hollywood cosmetics expert became an OSS master of disguise, helping wartime agents hide in plain sight.