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Ernest Peixotto: The Enlisted WWI Artist on the Western Front

by Pamela D. Toler7/7/20213/31/2024

When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Ernest Peixotto was eager to lend his hand to the effort.

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Shot Down in France, An American Airman’s Fate Remained a Mystery for Decades

by Gavin Mortimer7/2/20217/6/2021

Lincoln Bundy was assumed to have died shortly after D-Day. Fifty years would pass before his family learned otherwise

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How a Local Breakfast Club is Connecting With Thousands of Veterans Across America

by Claire Barrett6/21/20216/21/2021

What began as a local breakfast club in Pittsburgh now reaches thousands of veterans

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This Forward Air Controller Took Death-Defying Risks to Aid Special Forces

by Mark Carlson6/16/20216/28/2022

Air Force Capt. John P. Calamos received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his heroic actions calling in air strikes in Vietnam.

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Surviving Objects From D-Day Speak Volumes on Sacrifice

by John Long6/11/20216/11/2021

At the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, these artifacts from the beaches of Normandy are called “Silent Witnesses.”

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Raw Courage: Clerks, Cooks and Mechanics Fought Off Viet Cong Sappers

by Randy Bullock6/3/20217/22/2022

Soldiers in noncombat roles repelled an attack by communist sappers, the most highly trained of all North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong forces

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They Tried to Kill Each Other in the Skies Over Vietnam. Now They’re Friends

by Jon Guttman5/20/20214/29/2024

Thirty-six years after clashing in a dogfight over North Vietnam, an American fighter pilot and a North Vietnamese fighter pilot buried the hatchet.

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‘Taking Fire!’ Memoir Details Hunter-Killer Scout Missions

by Jerry D. Morelock5/18/20215/20/2021

A former scout helicopter pilot details his experiences during a 1969-70 combat tour with the air cavalry of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

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Revolt in the Ranks: The Court-Martial of Lieutenant Colonel Lewis E. Goodier Sr.

by Dwight R. Messimer5/4/20214/23/2021

In 1915 a group of disgruntled airmen in the U.S. Signal Corps declared war on their superiors. The consequences were far reaching

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After Years of Delay, ‘Masters of the Air’ Has Finally Started Production

by Claire Barrett and J.D. Simkins4/27/20214/27/2021

Based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, “Masters of the Air” is expected to follow American bomber pilots of the U.S. Eighth Air Force

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