A complete redesign of their classic 1/48 scale Supermarine Spitfire, Airfix has given the modeler an excellent reason to put another “Spit” on the workbench.
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Mystery Ship: September 2020
In August 1940 an Italian airplane took to the sky without a propeller, grandly signaling that aviation stood on the threshold of a new age.
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End of an Army: Battle of the Wabash
Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair led the U.S. Army on a punitive expedition against Northwest Territory tribes in 1791—few of his troops would survive the campaign
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Book Review: Conviction / The Murder Trial That Powered Thurgood Marshall’s Fight For Civil Rights
A new book examines one of Marshall’s few courtroom failures – a 1941 Oklahoma case that shocked the country and jumpstarted the civil rights movement.
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Clara Maass, the Nurse Who Gave Her Life in the Name of Science
Clara Maass paid the ultimate sacrifice in the search for curing yellow fever.
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A New Book Shows the Human Side of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
While demonized by the American press, Yamamoto had no desire to play the role of wartime villain.
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Porter’s Private War: The USS Essex in Polynesia
David Porter attacked enemy shipping and unilaterally annexed an island in the Pacific
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Book Review: Texas Ranger Lee Hall / From the Red River to the Rio Grande
Chuck Lyons draws a bead on Lee Hall, among the most adventurous of the legendary Texas Rangers.
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Odyssey of the Ten Thousand
Hiring on for a Persian war they didn’t understand, Greek mercenaries faced an epic fight for their lives
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Guy Stern: War of Words
German-born Guy Stern, 98, a “Ritchie Boy” and Bronze Star recipient, parlayed his language skills into a wartime job interrogating the enemy