On 12 May 1975 the cargo ship SS Mayaguez was seized by gunboats from this country.
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Brave B-24 Aircrews Smuggled Spies Into Enemy Territory in Europe
When the French Resistance needed help, a squadron of ex–sub hunters became the air arm of the OSS.
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12 Forgotten Heroes of Gettysburg
For every Joshua Chamberlain, there was a soldier, blue or gray, whose bravery was overlooked
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Artists | A Warrior’s Ledger Domain
Howling Wolf memorialized his exploits in vivid and colorful drawings—even while he was imprisoned […]
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Daily Quiz for May 14, 2019
He was the highest-ranking American Prisoner of War during World War Two.
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Audiobook Review| The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Celebrated as “the Father of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,” Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley documented the effects preservatives had on the Gilded Age’s food supply.
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There’s a Lost Nuclear Bomb Just Off the Georgia Coast. Should You Be Worried?
During a training exercise in 1958, a B-47 Stratojet bomber pilot was forced to ditch his payload: a 1.69-megaton H-bomb.
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Daily Quiz for May 13, 2019
In 1945 Truman, Churchill and Stalin met at this city in Germany.
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Daily Quiz for May 12, 2019
Nevil Norway, writer and aeronautical engineer used this nom-de-plume.