When Western powers allowed Nazi Germany to partition Czechoslovakia with the Munich Agreement of 1938, the country fell under the dominion of shadowy criminal mastermind Reinhard Heydrich, known as the “Butcher of Prague.”
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Northrop’s Radical Flying Wing Bomber of the 1940s
Jack Northrop dreamed big with his futuristic flying wing, but the radical bomber proved too great a technological leap for his company to bridge in the late 1940s.
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The Vietnam Combat Artist Program: The Soldiers Who Captured the War
Since World War I, the U.S. Army had officially commissioned artists to sketch, draw, […]
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Fighting General Killed in Action: Keith Ware
Ware was the first U.S. Army general officer killed in action in Vietnam and the only Medal of Honor recipient since World War I to be killed in action in a subsequent war.
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Then and Now: Newtown Battlefield State Park
New York’s 372-acre Newtown Battlefield State Park has not changed much since the bloody August 1779 Battle of Newtown during the American Revolutionary War.
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Marcellus Crocker: Grant’s Hammer in the Western Theater
Marcellus M. Crocker was on his way to high command until a terrible disease ended his military career.
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The Washington Code Talkers: Navajo President Proposes New Name for DC Football Team
After a July review, the majority owner of Washington’s football team has announced that […]
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A Mother’s Sacrifice: Four Sons Die for the Sake of the Union
Mother Agnes Allison is remembered with an impressive zinc monument on a hilltop above Port Carbon, Pennsylvania
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‘We Can Do It!’: Original Rosie the Riveter Makes Masks to Guard Against Virus
In 1943 at the age of 17 Mae Krier, alongside her friend and sister, […]
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‘Traitors Must Die’: Harry Rée and the SOE
Harry Rée guided French resistance groups in a series of dramatic sabotage operations. Then he was ordered to kill a Gestapo informer.