When the German army crashed through American lines in the Ardennes, General George S. Patton saw only opportunity.
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Civil War’s Unstoppable ‘Captain Sally’ Committed Herself to the Wounded
Life of wealth, privilege didn’t keep one ‘angel’ from giving all for the wounded.
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Oops! A Faulty Toilet That Scuttled a Submarine, a Fighter Jet That Shot Itself Down—and More!
Mistakes will happen, even in the military. Here are six mishaps, miscalculations, and malfunctions that prove it
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Against All Odds
A battalion of close-knit U.S. infantrymen faced the fight of their lives on the battlefields of Belgium
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Lake Murray, South Carolina: Where Doolittle’s Warbirds Came to Roost
Bombers once used the scenic sanctuary for target practice
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: America’s First Financial Crisis
A single rich investor’s ruin led the infant United States economy into a terrible tizzy
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An Ear for Trouble
A barbaric encounter aboard a seized merchantman off Cuba roused Britain to war with Spain for dominance in the Caribbean
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Insight: Off The Tracks
The Confederacy failed to take advantage of railroad technology
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Book Review: The Pirate World
Angus Konstam recounts the history of maritime outlawry as far back as the second millennium BC
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The Destruction of C Force
In 1941 Japanese invaders conquered Hong Kong in just 17 days—four years of suffering followed for Canadian defenders