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Never Forgotten: Accounting for American MIAs

by HistoryNet Staff6/12/20068/8/2016

Joint Task Force–Full Accounting continues the effort to recover the remains of the 1,991 Americans still missing in Southeast Asia.

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Eagle Dustoff: Medevac Choppers to the Rescue

by HistoryNet Staff6/12/20068/8/2016

When soldiers’ lives were in the balance, they could count on the air ambulances to come through for them, no matter what the risk.

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DC-3 Airliner

by smauro6/12/20068/8/2016

The Douglas Aircraft Company’s Grand Old Lady of the Skies — the DC-3 — still plies the airways it pioneered as the first practical airliner.

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Battle of Gettysburg and American Mythology

by HistoryNet Staff6/12/20068/8/2016

Much of what Americans believe about Gettysburg is myth, but their flawed knowledge of the battle nevertheless serves to sanctify their national memory of the fight.

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Picture of the Day: November 13

by HistoryNet Staff6/12/200610/4/2016

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on November 13, 1982, after the Vietnam Veterans […]

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Picture of the Day: May 30

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May 30: A Day of Remembrance Ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknowns at […]

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Brave Jolly Green

by HistoryNet Staff6/12/20068/8/2016

The entire North Vietnamese Army was on the move, but that didn’t stop the Air Force’s search and rescue helicopters.

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What Really Happened at Cam Ne

by Peter Brush6/12/20062/13/2019

Although described as one of the top works of 20th-century journalism, the CBS report presented only one side of the story.

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Gulf of Tonkin Incident: Reappraisal 40 Years Later

by ehoward6/12/20068/9/2016

Forty years after North Vietnamese patrol boats reportedly attacked U.S. destroyers, the sequence of events surrounding the Gulf of Tonkin incident is finally coming into clearer focus.

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The First Tet Offensive of 1789

by HistoryNet Staff6/12/20068/9/2016

The original Tet Offensive in 1789 was a masterpiece of surprise that became the model for the 1968 attack.

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