During World War Two the pilots of Air Group 15 (VF-15) called themselves this.
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Field Notes: Derailment Closes Parts of Harpers Ferry National Park
Two empty freight train cars fell into the Potomac River, closing sites including John Brown’s Fort and The Point
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Strong Men vs. Strongmen: When American Athletes Try to Play Fair With Totalitarian Regimes
Jesse Owens won a coup in Hitler’s Germany, but today’s NBA stars kowtow to China
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Daily Quiz for January 16, 2020
Radithor, a popular patent medicine made from 1918 to 1928 contained this deadly ingredient.
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Two Men Plead Guilty to the Theft of $8 Million in Rare Texts – A Crime that Spanned 25 Years
A 400-year-old bible vanished. The Journal of George Washington? Also gone. A first edition […]
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Arch and Teddy: First Flight By a U.S. President
A bromance blossomed between Archibald Hoxsey and Theodore Roosevelt in 1910 when the early aviator took TR for a short flight—the first by a U.S. president.
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Daily Quiz for January 15, 2020
This Vietnam War movie is loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness.
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Mysterious Plate left by WWII and Korean War Veteran
The National WWII Museum helps a reader analyze clues about his father’s service in a plate painted with military insignia
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A Closer Look at First Assault at Antietam’s ‘Creek of Death’
Two of the 11th Connecticut’s officers died in gallant rush on Burnside Bridge
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Libbie Custer’s Literary Love Affair With Her Late Husband
For nearly six decades after Little Big Horn, George Custer’s widow burnished the general’s reputation and wrote movingly of reconciliation with former foes.