The first cold Ready-to-Eat breakfast cereal was called this.
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Operation Bodenplatte: Last Gasp of the Luftwaffe
In the early morning hours of the first day of 1945, Allied pilots in northwest Europe might have expected to see pink elephants before they saw Nazi aircraft. Since the Normandy invasion, Royal Air Force and U.S. Army Air Forces fighters had largely driven the Luftwaffe from the skies.
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Daily Quiz for January 1, 2020
he retired French Air Force nurse, Genevieve de Galard, is called this.
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Wild West Book Review: Indian Wars
Indian Wars: The Campaign for the American West by Bill Yenne,Westholme Publishing,Yardley, Pa., 2006, […]
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Wild West Book Review: God’s Country, Uncle Sam’s Land
God’s Country, Uncle Sam’s Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West by Todd […]
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Wild West Book Review: Frontier Crossroads
Frontier Crossroads: Fort Davis and the West by Robert Wooster, Texas A&M University Press, […]
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Wild West Book Review: Encyclopedia of Murder & Execution in the Wild West
Encyclopedia of Murder & Execution in the Wild West by R. Michael Wilson, Stagecoach […]
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Lieutenant Charles Gatewood’s Extensive Apache Business
Louis Kraft likes to write about 19th-century Army officers who accepted American Indians as […]
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The Hawken-Spencer Rifle was a Crossbreed in Western Armament
A hybrid is defined as “one of mixed origin or composition,” and the most […]
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My Ancestor Was a Long-Haired, Militant Mormon Bodyguard — and My Source of Reflection
A crew member on the HBO series “Deadwood” recalls his affinity for ancestor Orrin Porter Rockwell — a Mormon adventurer whose long hair, legend has it, imbued him with a supernatural ability to dodge bullets.