In the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Viet Cong prepared carefully for its objectives inside the Saigon Circle. The result would be a plethora of battles–and battles within battles.
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Sitting Bull and the Mounties
After the Little Bighorn and other 1876 confrontations with the U.S. Army, the great Hunkpapa Sioux Leader took his people north into Canada, where James Walsh and other scarlet-clad lawmen insisted on enforcing the white mother’s laws.
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Interview: Dr. Roger Olaf Egeberg / General Douglas MacArthur’s Personal Physician and Aide-De-Camp
As General Douglas MacArthur’s personal physician, aide-de-camp and right-hand man, ‘Doc’ Egeberg saw the man behind the general’s stars.
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DC-3 Airliner
The Douglas Aircraft Company’s Grand Old Lady of the Skies — the DC-3 — still plies the airways it pioneered as the first practical airliner.
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America’s Civil War: Rebel’s Stand at Drewry’s Bluff
While Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac slowly advanced on Richmond in May 1862, the Union Navy made its own play to seize the Confederate capital.
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Battle of Gettysburg and American Mythology
Much of what Americans believe about Gettysburg is myth, but their flawed knowledge of the battle nevertheless serves to sanctify their national memory of the fight.
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Dick Winters: Reflections From Major Winters Of Easy Company
Major Richard ‘Dick’ Winters of ‘Band of Brothers’ fame speaks candidly about the men and actions of Easy Company and reflects on D-Day and the lessons he learned about leadership.
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Interview: First Sgt. Leonard Lomell and Sgt. Jack Kuhn / Two U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion Members Describe the Attack at Pointe-du-Hoc
U.S. Army General Omar Bradley described the attack on the German gun battery at Pointe-du-Hoc on D-Day as the most difficult mission he had ever given any soldiers in his command. Despite the tremendous odds against them, the U.S. Rangers managed to accomplish that mission.
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War of 1812: Battle of Lake Erie: Oliver Perry’s Miraculous Victory
With Oliver Hazard Perry’s flagship dead in the water, the British had apparently won the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. But then the quick-thinking American commander turned the tables and snatched an astounding victory in the bloodiest naval fight of the War of 1812.
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Harvey Logan: Wildest of the Wild Bunch
Harvey Logan participated in at least seven robberies and, unlike Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, killed with a vengeance.