Franklin‘s fire marshal, Lieutenant Stanley Graham, spoke for her whole crew: ‘Boys, we got pressure in the lines, we got hoses. Let’s get in there and save her.’
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Operation Market Garden: 2nd Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment Defend Arnhem Bridge
The fate of the embattled paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge rested with the men of the South Staffords.
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USS Liscome Bay: Hit By a Torpedo Near Makin Atoll During World War II
As the escort carrier Liscome Bay turned to launch its aircraft off Makin Atoll on November 24, 1943, Lt. Cmdr. Sunao Tabata of I-175 found himself presented with a target that submariners dream of.
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The Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
Did the bloody downfall of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem put the United States on a slippery slope into a quagmire?
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Mexican Revolution: Battle of Celaya
General Alvaro Obregon and his Constitutionalist army proved more than a match for Pancho Villa’s undefeated Division del Norte in the April 1915 battles at Celaya.
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Union Captain James ‘Paddy’ Graydon
He turned terrified villagers into crack troops and mules into walking bombs. Paddy Graydon was the Union’s secret weapon in New Mexico.
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George Washington: Hero of the Confederacy
The cost of political greatness, it’s been said, is to be forced to campaign long after your death. That’s certainly true of George Washington, whose name, image and legacy were appropriated by the Confederacy.
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Major General J.E.B. Stuart: Last Stand of the Last Knight
Major General J.E.B. Stuart posted his horsemen at Yellow Tavern—between Union attackers and Richmond—and waited for the collision. It would come with a deadliness he could never have imagined.
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American History: 1864 Attack on New York
Manhattan proved an irresistible target for Confederate saboteurs who wanted to set the city ablaze and settle some scores with the Union.
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Fateful Voyage of the Lusitania
The Cunard liner’s captain expected a safe Atlantic crossing, but a German U-boat would bring Lusitania‘s journey to a devastating end.