Self-taught filmmaker Jan Goldstein got tired of waiting for someone to make an in-depth documentary about pilots and planes of World War I and created ‘The Great War in the Air’ on his own.
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World Airways’ Audacious Vietnam Baby Airlift
Ed Daly, president of World Airways, turned a DC-8 into a “flying crib” in Operation Baby Airlift to rescue over 50 Vietnamese orphans in April 1975.
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Trial by Fire at Coral Sea
In the spring of 1942 Adm. Chester Nimitz was a relatively untried commander who was forced to match the battered remnants of the U.S. Pacific Fleet against an opponent flush with victory.
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Singapore 1941: Fall of the Gibraltar of the East
In only 70 days, Japanese troops on bicycles sidestepped static defenses to capture the Malay Peninsula, and in an audacious ruse convinced the British to surrender Singapore.
Posted inWeapons & Gear Manual
A Patriot Missile Battalion’s April Fools’ Day Assault in Iraq
A young army lieutenant in a Patriot missile battalion called to participate in the invasion of Iraq learns on the job during an April Fools’ Day foray
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The XB-70: LeMay’s Dream Bomber
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was a long-range bomber that could reach deep into Soviet airspace, but it was compromised by a declining defense budget and improved surface-to-air missiles.
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Pararescue Jumpers’ Daring Rescue of Downed Fighter Pilot Deep Inside North Vietnam
Intrepid Air Force Pararescue Jumpers, flying from a secret CIA landing strip in Laos, evade North Vietnamese MiG-17s 75 miles north of Hanoi during one of the Vietnam War’s most harrowing helicopter missions to rescue a downed American F-105 pilot
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Interview: Glenn Boyer / Not Married to Wyatt Earp
Controversial writer Glenn Boyer talks to Wild West magazine about his career, his controversies and his main man—Wyatt Earp.
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How the Six-Day War Sparked Forty Years of Strife
Israel’s 1967 surprise attack obliterated the Arab forces arrayed against it, and set the stage for decades of conflict and insecurity.
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Boyer vs. Tefertiller: Penslingers Face off over Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp biographers Glenn Boyer and Casey Tefertiller square off about Earp, their respective research and claims made about one another’s scholarship.