The ubiquitous North American T-6 Texan flew in a dozen wars and earned a half-dozen nicknames.
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Crusader Down
In 1966 a U.S. Navy helicopter crew plucked a downed aviator from North Vietnam’s busiest harbor in one of the war’s most daring rescues
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U.S. Marine Sergeant Rocky Sickmann: A Hostage Remembers
Sickmann was one of 52 hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran who endured 444 days of captivity in 1979–81.
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Media Digest | General Loved by His Troops, But Not His Bosses
Jim Willbanks’ superbly written, extensively researched book on Lt. Gen. James F. “Holly” Hollingsworth—known […]
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Interview: Michael Honey / Let’s talk Civil Rights
Why were the Memphis sanitation workers on strike in 1968? For generations, black people […]
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Voices | David S. Ferriero
Wars are fought twice. Once on the battlefield and once in memory.
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What Happened at Celtic Wood?
In October 1917, during the Passchendaele attacks, there occurred the most celebrated missing-persons case of World War I
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From ‘Belgian Rattlesnakes’ to BARs
The static fighting of World War I proved a catalyst for the development of an integral component of the modern mobile battlefield: the light machine gun
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50 Years On the Road
Jack Kerouac’s Beat classic—published one month before the launch of Sputnik—enthralled a generation that […]