HISTORY
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New Book Provides Long-Awaited Ground-Level Look at Combat Effectiveness
The exploration of unusual subjects—anything from flora and fauna to the effect of weather on the fighting—has increased greatly for…
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A Union Rebel Inside Robert E. Lee’s Family
“[Robert E. Lee Jr.] is off with Jackson & I hope will catch Pope & his cousin Louis Marshall,” General…
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First Medal of Honor Recipient from Vietnam War Dies at 89
Roger Donlon, the first American to receive a Medal of Honor for heroism during the Vietnam War, died Thursday in…
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The Making of a War Film
What is a war movie? Is it a faithful restaging of an actual historical event? Or is it a fictional…
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I’ll trade you Swoose for Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby!
Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby, the Boeing B-17G featured on the cover of Aviation History’s Summer 2023 issue, has completed another…
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How Curtis LeMay Put America’s Defenses on Alert 24/7
Seventy-five years ago, as both the Cold War and aviation technology were ramping up, the newly formed United States Air…
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His Sergeant in Vietnam Became His Hero. He Never Forgot It.
Willie Johnson was a 35-year-old African American from South Carolina with a wife and six kids. What did I, a…
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Abraham Lincoln’s Embrace of Foreign-Born Fighters
In the earliest days of Union enlistment in New York City, anyone willing to volunteer was welcome at recruitment offices—including…
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Mike Sadler, The Last Member of the Original S.A.S, Dies at 103
Maj. Mike Sadler, one of the first recruits and the last surviving member of Britain’s Special Air Service (S.A.S.), died…
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Meet the Heroes Who Delivered Aid and Comforted the Dying on the Battlefields of World War I
In the agony of trench warfare and no man’s land, the sound of a skitter and a wet nose —…
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