Fed up with homesteading in Nebraska, Sam Strong went to Colorado Springs with only a few coins in his pocket, but unimagined riches and a mother lode of trouble awaited him in the hills.
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Evelyn Waugh: The Novelist’s World War II Service
Author Evelyn Waugh served honorably in the British Army as an SAS Commando.
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Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Reluctant Seaman
Although a brilliant naval historian and noted theorist on the importance of sea power to national defense, Alfred Thayer Mahan hated the sea and dreaded his duties as a ship’s captain.
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USS Frank E. Evans: Disaster in the South China Sea
On the morning of June 3, 1969, 74 American sailors died when the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans was cut in two by an Australian aircraft carrier in the South China Sea.
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U.S. Air Force Airlifts in the 1972 Eastertide Offensive
The North Vietnamese Army had An Loc cut off and besieged. But they could not stop the U.S. Air Force airlifters who kept that outpost alive.
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Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: The Last Dive Bomber
The Curtiss SB2C was the most heavily produced dive bomber in history, but it did not represent much of an improvement over the Douglas SBD Dauntless it was designed to replace.
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World War II: Dick Suehr Flew to Defend Port Moresby
At a time when the Japanese reguarded his Bell P-39 as ‘cold meat’, Dick Suehr scored his first victory against a Zero. When he got to fly the Lockheed P-38, he did even better.
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John Forster and the American Conquest of California
The English-born John Forster helped his brother-in-law, California Governor Pio Pico, escape to Mexico in 1846, but then he assisted the American forces who had come West to take possession of the pastoral paradise by the sundown sea.
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Who Shot First When a Mob Killed 3 Chinese Farmers in 1885? Turns Out, It Didn’t Matter.
Five white men and two Indians responded violently to the hiring of Chinese laborers to pick hops in 1885. A jury in the murder trial didn’t deliberate long — but we’ll never know for sure who killed the Chinese men.
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Bone Mizell: Cracker Cowboy of the Palmetto Prairies
Bone Mizell was a hard-drinking cow hunter who, with an assist from artist Frederic Remington, became a legend in his own time in Florida’s cattle country.