Sarah E. Wagner’s excellent book, What Remains, is an exhaustively researched account of America’s […]
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Ex-Green Beret Claims He Led Failed Coup in Latin America. He Wasn’t the First.
On Friday, the Associated Press reported that an ex-Green Beret recently led a failed coup […]
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Shocked America Demanded Change After Atlanta Hotel Blaze Killed 119
President Truman called for stricter safety codes after dozens leaped to their deaths from ‘fireproof” building
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Veteran Ed Gazel on Turning 99: Take Two Shots of Brandy Every Night
On the morning of November 20, 1943, nearly 2,600 highly trained “Japanese marines” awaited […]
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Dragon Lady Down: Crazy Night Landing in a U-2 Spyplane
Republic of China Air Force Major “Mike” Hua pulled off a nighttime dead-stick landing in an early U-2
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60-Year-Old U-2 Spyplane Still Seeks Out the Enemy
Sixty years after its introduction, Lockheed’s U-2 spyplane continues to serve as America’s eyes in the sky over distant battlefields.
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A Firsthand Account of a CIA Officer in Saigon
The CIA struggled to keep its operation in Vietnam going until the very fall of Saigon.
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The Fall of Saigon: How the Vietnam War Ended in 1975
Newly declassified documents from the CIA’s chief analyst in Vietnam reveal the chaos as Saigon fell.
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B-24 Gunner Andy Hocko, on a Celebrated Mission We Think We Know
‘I was never a talker, even with my crew. But I’d try to do the best I could to get back to base.’
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Daily Quiz for April 30, 2020
On the March to the Sea, Sherman’s troops were called this.