It is well-known that George Custer’s men each brought a trapdoor Springfield and a Colt .45 that June day in 1876. Identification of the Indian weapons is more uncertain.
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A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory (Book Review)
Reviewed by Carol Reardon By Emily S. Rosenberg Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., 2003 […]
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Battle of Iwo Jima: U.S. Seaman First Class William P. Campbell, Jr. Took Part in the Invasion
William ‘Soupy’ Campbell, Jr., left home at 17 to join the U.S. Navy and found himself taking part in a great invasion.
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Congo Crisis: Operation Dragon Rouge
Far from any hope of rescue, the hostages in Stanleyville were suddenly awakened by sounds of battle and chilling cries from their Simba captors: ‘Your brothers have some from the sky! Now you will be killed!’
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Donald Hamblen: One Tough Marine and Purple Heart Recipient
He had been wounded twice in Korea. He had lost part of his left leg in a parachute training accident. Still, Donald Hamblen earned two more Purple Hearts while serving in Vietnam.
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Early Covert Action on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
In 1961 and 1962 the CIA-trained and -sponsored 1st Observation Group was formed to counter Communist operations along the trail.
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Operation Marauder: Allied Offensive in the Mekong Delta
On New Year’s Day 1966, with Australian and New Zealand combat forces attached, the 173rd Airborne Brigade struck VC positions in the Mekong Delta.
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Losing Ground to the Khmer Rouge
As the war in Vietnam wound down with the signing of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, the war in neighboring Cambodia was going from bad to worse.
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Battle for Saigon
In the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Viet Cong prepared carefully for its objectives inside the Saigon Circle. The result would be a plethora of battles–and battles within battles.
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Picture of the Day: November 6
Jeanette Rankin On November 6, 1916, lifelong feminist and pacifist Jeanette Rankin of Montana […]