One of the greatest early aerobatic pilots, Bert Acosta couldn’t overcome his inner demons. […]
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Wildcats Battle Hawks Over Casablanca During Operation Torch
In one of WWII’s more ironic spectacles, American planes fought American planes in the skies above French Morocco.
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Angel Flight: The Pilot Who Discovered the World’s Tallest Waterfall
Jimmie Angel searched Venezuela’s “Lost World” for a fabled river of gold, but all […]
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Pearl Harbor Sabre
Korean War rivals face off in the Pacific Aviation Museum’s new MiG Alley exhibit. […]
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Aviation History Briefing- May 2011
Australian’s Remains and Spitfire Recovered When Royal Australian Air Force Flight Lieutenant Henry Lacy […]
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Roots of a Bitter Legacy: Determined Women Were the Driving Force Behind Confederate Monuments
Ex-soldiers actually had little to do with placement of the now-familiar marble and cast-iron representations of themselves in parks and courthouse squares across the South, or of the grand equestrian spectacles honoring their leaders.
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Artists | Eyewitness to Horror
Published 35 years after his death, Goya’s The Disasters of War has etched the cruel suffering of war into our collective memory.
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A Good Fight: Fighting the Second Civil War
The 30-year effort to save Civil War battlefields from development and desecration is the “second Civil War.”
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Daily Quiz for October 24, 2017
This was the first ship sank by a submarine in combat.
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Did Gen. Pershing Threaten to Execute Cowards?
I once read that Gen. Pershing threatened to execute hundreds of American soldiers for […]