“It Flies! The Navy Comes Up with A Real ‘Flying Saucer.’”
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What’s It Like to Curate a World-Class Firearms Museum?
At any given time Danny Michael, curator of the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, has 4,200 firearms on display.
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Charging in the Dark, the Gallant Attack of These Gunners Led to the Breakthrough at Petersburg
These Rhode Island cannoneers were all recognized for their valor on that April 1865 day.
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In 1807 a French Officer Field-Tested an Artillery Tactic That Remained Decisive for More Than a Century
The breakthrough came during the Battle of Friedland, the victory that decided the War of the Fourth Coalition in Napoleon’s favor.
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Wyatt Earp May Have Met His Match in Con Man Soapy Smith’s Alaska
The legendary lawman’s key to survival in gold rush Alaska was to keep a low profile.
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A Monument to Defeat…and Victory
It is a tale as familiar to Western history buffs today as it was […]
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Search and Rescue
Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) came into its own during the Vietnam War. Specially […]
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The Philippine Independence
At first glance this scene, featuring U.S. soldiers supporting a gunboat along a tropical […]
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Operation Blue Bat
Four U.S. Marines crouch on the rooftop of the U.S. embassy in Beirut on […]
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Rough Rider
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. drives through France in his “Rough Rider” jeep sometime […]