The Soldier’s Dilemma Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain knew a thing or two about war and […]
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On a vintage 1890 pile-driving barge
The first thing I noticed when I got off the airplane at Tan Son […]
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A Minor Rebellion
The scene is a familiar one. A column of American GIs, hunched over from […]
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‘Smelling the Enemy’
Long after the fact, a commander learns that his battlefield intuition deep in a […]
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Vietnam’s “Scooter”: The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
From the first shot to the last, the Navy’s most prodigious attack aircraft of the war.
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Was There Anything Funny About the Vietnam War? Robin Williams Thought So
Revisiting ‘Good Morning, Vietnam’ more than 30 years after its release
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Marathons in the Air
There’s a good reason why the flight endurance record has stood since 1959: Who wants to spend more than 65 days crammed in a lightplane?
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Saving Sergeant York
A century after a pacifist became an American war hero, another soldier shot down doubts about his story
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Book Review: The War Outside My Window
In 1860, 12-year-old LeRoy Gresham began keeping a daily diary. The second son and […]
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Hunted Down After Gettysburg
An illiterate North Carolina soldier paid the ultimate price for deserting the Confederate state.