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1. The avant-garde writer and artist, Wyndham Lewis, served as this kind of officer in World War One.

 
 
 
 

2. This was the first US Navy aircraft carrier assigned to Yankee Station off the coast of Vietnam.

 
 
 
 

3. Of the 793 enlisted men of the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn, this many were foreign born.

 
 
 
 




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He Was Shot in the Face and Bayoneted by the British. But This 78-Year-Old Patriot Refused to Die.

Samuel Whittemore was shot in the face at point-blank range, bayoneted no less than six times and clubbed in the head with the butts of the British soldiers’ muskets.

A memorial to Samuel Whittemore’s. Note that it states the he was 80 years old, but according to birth records, he was 78 at the time of the attack.

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