Brigadier General Thomas F. Meagher, the colorful leader of the Irish Brigade, fought many battles–not all of them with the enemy.
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Fort Wagner and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
The doomed assault on Fort Wagner won the 54th Massachusetts a place in history, but did not win the battle for the North. No regiment could have carried the fort that day.
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Jimmy Doolittle: Commander of the Doolittle Raid During World War II
Jimmy Doolittle’s raiders carried out some historic firsts when their B-25s dropped the first bombs on Tokyo.
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Fred Avey: Flying with the Black Sheep Squadron in World War II
When Fred Avey joined ‘Pappy’ Boyington’s flock, he found himself among a pack of wolves in Black Sheep’s clothing.
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The Bomb That Ended the War
It was the second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, that induced the Japanese to surrender.
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Air America: Played a Crucial Part of the Emergency Helicopter Evacuation of Saigon
The last assignment of the CIA’s Far East airline was one of its most hectic: airlift more than one thousand people to safety from Saigon rooftops just prior to North Vietnam’s capture of the city.
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Fourth Crusade: Conquest of Constantinople
The chance to unify the faithful — and gain a strong ally — led to the conquest of Christendoms’s leading city.
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Hans Klein Recalls His Time in Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps
During his time with the Hermann Göring Division in North Africa, Hans Klein’s devotion to the Afrika Korps and its commander, Erwin Rommel, was absolute.
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Nuremberg Trial
Unprecedented in history, the Nuremberg Trial brought high-ranking Nazis to justice. This is the story of how the trial took shape in postwar Germany.
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1st Louisiana Special Battalion at the First Battle of Manassas
Recruited from New Orleans’ teeming waterfront by soldier of fortune Roberdeau Wheat, the 1st Louisiana Special Battalion more than lived up to its pugnacious nickname–Wheat’s Tigers–at the First Battle of Manassas.