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Enemies No More

dlindsay — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:02:42 +0000

How a Doolittle Raider and a Pearl Harbor pilot became friends

Alistair, Meet Jimmy

dlindsay — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:58:09 +0000

Author Sir Alistair Horne tells of his visit with legendary World War II pilot, Jimmy Doolittle

The U.S. Navy's Sea Change

ehoward — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:46:14 +0000

The U.S. Navy reinvented itself—and the American sailor—during a century of radical change in technology and warfare

Weaving Life at Quarry Bank Mill

kjohnson — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:51:28 +0000

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.

Letter from Vietnam magazine - August 2011

Scokeley — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:03:07 +0000

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 …

test gallery

kholland — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:28:23 +0000

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What a difference a day makes

Marty Jones — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:10:54 +0000

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 …

Pennsylvannia 145 Infantry

tin cup — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:15:57 +0000

Gettysburg on the third day…

Arsenal - F-105D Thunderchief

dnewbold — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:51:48 +0000

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.

Table of Contents - July 2010 Aviation History

smauro — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:33:32 +0000

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.