Tory Failmezger recounts the World War II tank-busting campaigns of the U.S. 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion
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The South Vietnamese Pilot Who Performed a Daring Feat To Save His Family
As his country crumbled, a South Vietnamese pilot attempting a high-risk landing on the Midway depended on the ship’s quick-thinking crew to save his family from disaster
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From Ambulance Driver to Fighter Pilot
In 1914, as World War I erupted across Europe, James “Mac” McConnell knew he could no longer stay on the sidelines
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Sketches From Inside a Confederate Prison
A Union veteran commissioned artwork depicting his life in Andersonville and Florence.
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Daily Quiz for April 30, 2019
A physician, code-named “Dr. Feelgood” by the Secret Service treated this US President.
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Surveying D-Day’s Aftermath at Omaha Beach
The author, a gunner with the 447th Anti-Aircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion, survived five European campaigns and the bloody beaches of Normandy.
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‘This Is What Hell Is Like’: 76 Years Ago, My Grandfather-in-Law Liberated the Dachau Concentration Camp
It was April 29, 1945, a cold, damp day when a 19-year-old private and his fellow soldiers got orders to liberate a Nazi concentration camp called Dachau.
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Daily Quiz for April 29, 2019
In the winter of 1944-1945 the Germans embargoed food to this country.
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Book Review: Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss discusses nine U.S. presidents who have guided the nation through or kept it out of war