At Antietam, George McClellan and his ‘bodyguard’ dawdled throughout a long ‘Fatal Thursday.’ This […]
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America’s Civil War: November 1997 From the Editor
‘Famous last words’ sometimes depend on who heard them and what the listener wanted […]
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Corsairs Above The Coral: A Black Sheep’s Story
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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Britain’s Bold Strike From the Sea
On Christmas Day 1914, an audacious British air attack on a Zeppelin base in northern Germany caught the Germans with their defenses down.
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Space Shuttle
Shuttles are the highest, fastest airplanes, but they can’t break the image barrier back on the ground.
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Successor to the Flying Tigers: The China Air Task Force
The China Air Task Force was a scrappy but beleaguered fill-in that fought both the Japanese and supply shortcomings until the Fourteenth Air Force was formed.
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World’s First Winged Airline
Scheduled service on the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line in the
winter of 1914 treated a passenger or two to a wooden seat, fresh
Florida air—and salt spray in the face.
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Amid Bedbugs and Drunken Secessionists
William Woods Averell was a man on a mission–at least he wanted to be. […]
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BLIND JUSTICE
Should a Texas Ranger Expect Justice or Death From His Union Captors?