On 27 February 1968, Walter Cronkite declared the Tet Offensive to be this for the United States.
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Daily Quiz for April 4, 2020
The story of the last mission of this World War Two B-17 was turned into a 1990 feature film.
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Theodore Roosevelt Captain Followed in Footsteps of Ship’s Namesake by Writing Bombshell Letter
Navy officials are finding themselves in controversial waters in the wake of Thursday’s announcement […]
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‘Tough Invasion. Tough Fight’: WWII Vet Recalls Peleliu and Okinawa Campaigns
In December of 1943 Anthony “Tony” Procassini was a few credit hours short of […]
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Daily Quiz for April 3, 2020
In 1950 members of this organization tried to assassinate President Truman
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Fighting Fascism on the Silver Screen
Resistance isn’t always glorious in real life, nor in Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘Army of Shadows.’
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Gentlemanly Warfare Is Dead
No longer will commanders let a foe live if they can get him in their sights.
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Daily Quiz for April 2, 2020
This type of airplane scored the first air-to-air victories for the North Vietnamese Air Force.
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How Roland Garros Put Machine Guns on Planes and Changed the Course of Aerial Warfare
Air combat came of age during World War I with the invention of devices that allowed fighter pilots to “point and shoot.”
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Book Review: The Real Dirt on America’s Frontier Legends
Jim Motavalli profiles 17 frontier figures, both legends and little-known characters