Both Union and Confederate soldiers brought suffering to this Shenandoah valley hamlet
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The Battle of Quebec
General James Wolfe capped a three-month British siege in 1759 with an hour of […]
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Battlefield Blunders
In the history of warfare, tactical missteps can separate conquering hero from blundering loser. […]
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Black Jack Pershing
From the Old West to the Western Front, from a troop of Buffalo Soldiers to a million doughboys, Pershing’s globe-circling career is a virtual history of the U.S. Army.
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Hallowed Ground: Ghost Mountain, Papua New Guinea
The New Guinea jungle was a boiler room. A slanting sun sifted through the […]
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Britain’s ‘Bloody Paralyzer’
The first really large bombers to be produced in substantial numbers and employed in massed formations in a coordinated strategic offensive, the Handley Page O/100 and O/400 set the basic layout for both British and American bomber design.
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Flights of Fancy
Air war pulp magazines introduced a generation of action-hungry Americans to drama on the […]
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The Nazi Marauder
Germany built a ship that could outgun anything it couldn’t outrun. In 1940 it started hunting its prey
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Respect Earned Through Blood: Black Troops Shatter Stereotypes
On June 15, 1864, at Petersburg, Va., African American troops captured Confederate forts and defeated stereotypes.