A callous disregard for the rules of war doomed the Allied prisoners on a Japanese merchantman to death at the hands of their own countrymen.
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Audie Murphy: One-Man Stand at Holtzwihr
Audie Murphy earned the Medal of Honor and lasting fame during a fierce engagement near Colmar, France, and ended the war as America’s most decorated soldier.
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Battle for Henderson Field: Lieutenant Colonel Lewis B. Puller Commanded the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines
The 7th Marines’ tenacious defense of the hills overlooking Henderson Field secured victory at Guadalcanal.
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Battle of Princeton
Facing Maj. Gen. George Washington’s army at Assunpink Creek on January 2, 1777, Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis expected to ‘bag the fox’ the following day, but the next morning brought an unpleasant surprise–the fox had vanished.
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Battle for Kasserine Pass: 1st Armored Division Were Ambushed by the Afrika Corps at Sidi Bou Zid
The tankers of the 1st Armored Division learned a costly lesson at a desert crossroads in Tunisia.
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Wasted Lives on Armistice Day
Did American commanders needlessly send doughboys to their deaths during the hours before the 1918 armistice went into effect?
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Battle of Gettysburg: Fighting at Little Round Top
The Battle of Gettysburg, and perhaps the fate of the Union, was decided in one hour of desperate fighting on the rocky ledges of Little Round Top.
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Life at West Point of Future Professional American Civil War Officers
Whether they spent their energy studying or sneaking off to Benny Havens’s tavern, the future professional officers of the Civil War left West Point with enough stories for a lifetime—and an enduring common bond.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor: Why Weren’t We Warned
The contention that broken Japanese codes could have alerted the United States won’t go away. But is there a simpler explanation than a failure of intelligence?
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Utah War: U.S. Government Versus Mormon Settlers
The federal expedition into Utah Territory in 1857-58, which pitted President James Buchanan’s U.S. Army against Brigham Young’s Nauvoo Legion, was largely a bloodless affair, but misjudgments, embarrassments and expenses abounded.