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Alistair Horne |
Published: February 10, 2012 at 12:02 pm
How a Doolittle Raider and a Pearl Harbor pilot became friends
Alistair Horne |
Published: February 10, 2012 at 11:58 am
Author Sir Alistair Horne tells of his visit with legendary World War II pilot, Jimmy Doolittle
Ronald Spector |
Published: February 01, 2012 at 10:46 am
The U.S. Navy reinvented itself—and the American sailor—during a century of radical change in technology and warfare
Dana Huntley |
Published: November 18, 2011 at 12:51 pm
It's hard to believe that for the workers and their families of Georgian England, however, the mills meant a way of life far superior to that available to agricultural laborers, crofters and the subsistence farming of the time.
Vietnam magazine |
Published: August 08, 2011 at 9:03 pm
The cost of bringing our wars home
Last April, in Benghazi, Libya, two photographers covering the brutal war boiling over in North Africa were killed in a mortar blast as they followed rebels repelling an attack by government forces. Tim …
Published: August 05, 2011 at 4:28 pm
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Tim Rowland |
Published: July 20, 2011 at 10:10 am
Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Robert E. Lee camp on the outskirts of Hagerstown, Maryland, in September of 1862. Image courtesy of Weider History Group archive.
War seemed far away to the editors of a Maryland weekly newspaper–until …
Published: November 05, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Gettysburg on the third day…
Carl O. Schuster |
Published: July 28, 2010 at 5:51 pm
During the Vietnam War, the F-105D Thunderchief flew more than 20,000 missions, accounting for more than 75 percent of all U.S. bombing sorties between 1965-1972. It suffered the highest loss rate of any plane that flew over North Vietnam.
Published: May 21, 2010 at 10:33 am
The July 2010 Aviation History has articles on the Messerschmitt Me-262, the Napier Sabre engine, Japan's fleet of captured B-17s, Bernard Pietenpol, Britain's R 101 airship, and Whatson's Whizzers.
Published: April 25, 2010 at 10:52 am
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Published: October 01, 2009 at 1:49 pm
State officials as well as volunteers are working to establish a state park in an area of Bates County, Mo., where the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry skirmished with Confederate guerrillas in October 1862. The encounter is known today as the …
Published: August 01, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Many Union soldiers wrote about the soul-chilling yells of attacking Confederates. Thanks to the Museum of the Confederacy, you can hear the real thing on a CD featuring the authentic yell as performed by two elderly Confederate veterans. The two …
William J. Cook |
Published: March 11, 2009 at 3:16 pm
The Manzanar War Relocation Center, now a National Park Service historic site located 200 miles north of Los Angeles, California, is the best-preserved place to see what happened when more than 10,000 Japanese Americans and resident aliens wrongly suspected of being enemy agents were rounded up and incarcerated in remote internment centers.
Published: March 10, 2009 at 2:57 pm
In the May 2009 Aviation History Mailbag readers discuss the Lockheed 12A Electra Junior, the R-2800 radial engine, and the Martin JRM flying boat.
Published: March 10, 2009 at 11:50 am
May 2009 Aviation History Letter From Aviation History compares Captain Chesley Sullenberger's US Airways Flight 1549 landing on the Hudson with Captain Ricahrd Ogg's Pan Am Flight 943 landing on the Pacific.
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