In-country for just two weeks, artillery forward observer Harvey Barnum assumed command of Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, during a Viet Cong ambush.
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USS Westchester County: Attacked During the Vietnam War
When VC frogmen struck USS Westchester County, they inflicted the Navy’s greatest single-incident combat loss of the war.
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Five TBM Avenger Bombers Lost in the Bermuda Triangle
A re-examination of the probable fate of five TBM Avengers that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle during a routine training mission.
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Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Khambula
Flushed with past victories, including one the day before, the Zulu in the Gobamakhosi Regiment charged the British at Khambula in March 1879, shouting, ‘We’re the boys from Isandlwana!’
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Colonel Thomas Moe: American POW in North Vietnam
Brought down by a faulty fuze on his wingman’s bomb, Tom Moe survived more than five years as a POW in North Vietnam.
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Long Life of Hudson’s Bay Company
For nearly 150 years, the royally chartered Hudson’s Bay Company battled Frenchmen, Canadians, Indians, mixed bloods and Scots for control of the lucrative fur trade in the Great White North.
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Bizarre B-17 Collision Over the North Sea During World War II
When a pair of B-17s collided in midair and became interlocked, the surviving crewmen experienced the ride of their lives.
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John Sutter and California’s Indians
The Swiss entrepreneur carved out a big place for himself in Mexican California, using area Indians to do most of the hard work.
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Battle of Brawner’s Farm: Black Hat Brigade’s Baptism of Fire
John Gibbon’s mostly green Midwestern troops found themselves in quite a scrape as the sun set on August 28, 1862.