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Task Force Smith: Artillery Commander
Miller O. Perry rejects claims that Lt. Col. Charles B. Smith and the troops […]
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‘For Wounds Received…’
The United States’ oldest decoration has undergone several changes of purpose and criterion since […]
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Inside the Cuban Missile Crisis
Many factors led to the confrontation—and more was involved than simple Soviet belligerence. For […]
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Mark Noah: But Now Am Found
Noah is the founder of History Flight, a nonprofit dedicated to finding and properly interring the remains of missing U.S. service members
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Roy Benavidez: ‘A Will to Live and Fight’
Staff Sgt. Roy Benavidez had sustained 37 wounds from small-arms fire, grenade shrapnel, bayonet […]
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Aviation History Book Review: Chopper
Chopper by Robert F. Dorr, Berkley Publishing Group, 2005, $24.95. Bob Dorr is a prolific […]
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Legacy of Flight: OV-10 Bronco and the SC-1
July 6, 1968, Da Nang, South Viet Nam—The North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco saw […]
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Book Review: 50 Years of the U-2 / The Complete Illustrated History of the “Dragon Lady”
The subtitle of Chris Pocock’s book says it all. 50 Years of the U-2: […]
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For Airman, Famed ‘Burst of Joy’ Photograph Rings Hollow
The story behind the famous photo of a family’s reunion after a father, a POW, returns from Vietnam is significantly less joyous than the imagery implies.