In the fall of 1941, two gargantuan armies faced each other in the largest […]
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Battle at Dong Xoai: ‘Swarming Over the Walls’
In 1965, a powerful Viet Cong force threatened to annihilate a Green Beret base at Dong Xoai
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Bombs that were Smart Before their Time
The Nazis had them fifty years before Desert Storm made precision weapons look like a modern invention.
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WWII Today- October 2007
The Last of the First Flag Raisers on Iwo Jima Two flags were raised […]
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Berlin’s Nazi Past, Hidden in Plain Sight
Since I moved to Berlin almost two years ago, this gritty, sprawling metropolis, once […]
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Did the Royal Navy Perform a Dress Rehearsal for Pearl Harbor?
The daring British raid on the Italian fleet in November 1940 foreshadowed devastating tactics the Japanese would perfect a year later.
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The Year Air Power Came of Age
In 1917 over Flanders fields, a fundamental shift in the airplane’s role signaled its […]
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Flying Blind: The Army Air Corps Delivers the Mail
Tasked with carrying the mail when commercial airmail contracts were canceled in early 1934, […]
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Big Ben’s Fight for Life
A Japanese bomber nearly sank USS Franklin in a March 1945 attack, but despite […]
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Germany’s Sea Eagle
In late 1916 a German naval adventurer slipped the British blockade aboard a three-masted windjammer to raid like the pirates of old