Tired of being on the run, the Wild Bunch leader considered a number of options before deciding it was best to leave the country.
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Interview: Lester Leggett / the Mission to Capture Hermann Göring
In the first days of peace, a veteran GI was part of a bizarre episode that saw him standing guard duty with his former foes.
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Airmail Service: It Began with Army Air Service Pilots
The Post Office called on Army Air Service pilots to carry the first airmail. Despite numerous hardships, the first flying postmen usually made their appointed rounds.
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Capturing Fort Pulaski During the American Civil War
As a young U.S. Army lieutenant, Robert E. Lee helped to construct Fort Pulaski. As a Confederate general 30 years later, he confidently assured fort defenders it could not be breached. Union gunners were not so sure.
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‘Home, Sweet Home’: A Civil War Soldier’s Favorite Song
John Howard Payne’s haunting ‘Home, Sweet Home’ was the Civil War soldier’s favorite song.
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America’s Civil War: Major General John Pope’s Narrow Escape at Clark’s Mountain
While Robert E. Lee’s entire army massed behind Clark’s Mountain to attack the Union Army of Virginia, a daring Yankee spy swam the Rapidan River to warn Maj. Gen. John Pope of the imminent danger. It was, said one military historian, ‘the timeliest single product of espionage’ in the entire war.
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Battle of Chickamauga: Colonel John Wilder’s Lightning Brigade Prevented Total Disaster
Armed with their new, lethal seven-shot Spencer rifles, Wilder’s Lightning Brigade was all that stood between the Union Army and the looming disaster at Chickamauga Creek.
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A WWII Tale of the French Foreign Legion
In World War II, the French Foreign Legion fought against the Germans with its usual gusto, but it was almost destroyed by the disparate elements within its own ranks.
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Battle of the Philippine Sea: Operation A-Go
Operation A-Go was meant to trap the U.S. Fifth Fleet in the Marianas. What followed was a disaster for Japan — and a turkey shoot for the Americans.
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Austro-Sardinian War
Combining such technical innovations as railroads and rifled firearms with Napoleonic-era tactics, French Emperor Napoleon III’s short but bloody bid for glory even left the French emperor sickened, but it laid the foundation for a united Italy–and the International Red Cross.