Whether in POW camps or mess halls, the men and women serving in the Vietnam War certainly didn’t learn of Neil Armstrong’s historic step in their living rooms.
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Book Review: The Best of 2006
As any buff knows, the term “World War II” is something of a misnomer. […]
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Reinhard Heydrich: A Devil With Many Faces
On June 22, 1941, the first day of the German invasion of Russia, the […]
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Blinded by the Rising Sun: Japanese Radio Deception Before Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor achieved as nearly complete a surprise on an […]
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WWII Today: December 2006
Days Of Infamy Sixty-five years ago this month, Imperial Japanese Navy bombers and torpedo […]
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Bay of Pigs: The Perfect Failure
Sixty-one years later, it’s still unclear who deserves the blame for the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
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First In France: The World War II Pathfinder Who Led the Way on D-Day
101st Airborne Division pathfinders and their headstrong leader set foot in a dark Normandy just 15 minutes into D-Day.
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‘Board Her Boys!’: The 1804 Burning of USS Philadelphia
Unable to wrest USS Philadelphia from the clutches of piratical Tripolitans, Stephen Decatur resolved to burn the captured frigate to the waterline
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Tragedy in the Air: The Hindenburg Disaster
On May 6, 1937, disaster struck German airship, the Hindenburg, at Lakehurst, New Jersey, bringing an end to the age of the rigid airship and uncertainty to the future of air travel.
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Daily Quiz for May 21, 2019
On 7 August 1941, this country launched its first bombing raid against Berlin.