If you dive with a hatch or the wrong valve open, you’re sunk—both literally and metaphorically.
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WWII Today- August 2006
Gary Sterne had no idea that he was about to find something that could […]
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Remembering the Resistance Leader Who Infiltrated Auschwitz
Witold Pilecki spent two and a half years trying to sabotage the infamous camp from within
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Daily Quiz for September 5, 2019
Jefferson Davis held this US Government cabinet office from 1853 to 1857.
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The Sad Fate of a Remarkable B-24
A B-24 nicknamed “Hot Stuff” completed 31 missions, and its crew prepared for a hero’s trip home. Fate had other ideas.
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Daily Quiz for September 4, 2019
This was the world’s first battle decided exclusively by carrier-based air power.
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Up the Rebels As Irishmen Attack Britain—By Way of Buffalo
In 1866, Fenian republican rebels invaded Canada—from the United States.
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The Flight of the Hawkeyes: Daring—but Futile—Five-Month Prison Break
Iowa POWs walk nearly 300 miles in their bid to make it back to Union lines
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‘We Are the Ones You Sent to Fight a War’
We are the ones you sent to fight a war you didn’t know a thing about.
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Flying into a Firestorm: A Secret Mission Inside Laos
A helicopter gunner got a bird’s-eye view of the top-secret Operation Tailwind in Laos, but it almost cost him his life—three times in four days.