HISTORY
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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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America, It Seems More and More, Could Use a Politician Like Henry Clay Again
Henry Clay, nicknamed the Star of the West and the Great Compromiser, served as Speaker of the U.S. House of…
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These Fighting ‘Mighty Midgets’ Packed Big Guns
The Asiatic-Pacific Theater in World War II culminated with a grueling, bloody amphibious campaign to capture one Japanese-held seabound stronghold…
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This German Baroness Dodged Cannonballs During the American Revolution
Frederika Charlotte Louise, Baroness Riedesel zu Eisenbach—better known as Baroness von Riedesel—was the wife of Baron Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, a…
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