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    Wilderness Workhorse: Canada’s Rugged, Reliable Noorduyn Norseman Bush Plane

    Designed and built in Canada in 1935, the Noorduyn Norseman set the standard for all subsequent bush planes to follow “Take off to the Great White North” ran the memorable slogan of Bob and Doug, Canada’s comedic “McKenzie...

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    From Fame to Obscurity: Story of the “Mexican Lindbergh”

    Emilio Carranza’s historic 1928 goodwill flight from Mexico to the United States and back ended in tragedy in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. Two months after completing his May 1927 New York to Paris solo flight, Charles Lindbergh took off...

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    Smallpox: A Common Enemy During the Civil War

    Vaccination efforts became standard for both armies desperate to prevent the spread of deadly smallpox...

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    Ancient Roman soldier’s cavalry face mask discovered in Turkey

    Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered an iron mask worn by a cavalryman in ancient Rome’s army circa 1,800 years ago...

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    War In the Villages Review

    Author Ted Easterling examines strengths and weaknesses in a U.S. program established to win the “hearts and minds” of the Vietnamese population...

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    This Brilliant British Naval Commander Was His Own Worst Enemy

    British Admiral Thomas Cochrane excelled in the navies of three nations, but his combative nature nearly made him a footnote in naval history...

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    No Rest for Man or Beast: The Brutal Battle of Yellow Tavern

    "Six Days of Awful Fighting" shows the chaos and violence of cavalry warfare and its impact on the movements of both Union and Confederate armies leading to the bloodbath at Cold Harbor...

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    ‘Shot Heard Round the World’—Readers’ Letters Look at Lexington and Concord

    Readers sound off about the "shot heard round the world," the end of the War in Afghanistan and friendly fire incidents in our January 2022 issue...

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    Army Cadets Observe the Time-Honored Tradition of Stealing the Navy’s Goat. Only...

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    MHQ Reviews: Nuclear Folly — A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    It is tempting to think that, 60 years and multiple historical accounts later, there is nothing new to be learned or said about this seminal episode of the Cold War...

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    The Devil’s Trick Review

    Author John Boyko presents six biographies that demonstrate the diversity of Canada’s involvement in the Vietnam War...

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    Fifty years later, mystery still surrounds the hijacking of a 727 over the Pacific Northwest—the only unsolved air piracy incident in commercial aviation history...

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    ‘Sleeper Agent’ Book Review

    Ann Hagedorn relates the Cold War espionage of Russian spy George Koval, an ostensibly American engineer with top-secret clearance...

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    How Anti-Asian Hate Became Rooted in America’s Immigration Laws

    Xenophobic attitudes shaped U.S. immigration policy, complicating the lives of many Asian Americans who went from being invisible to being dehumanized...

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    ‘Gabby’ Gabreski: America’s Top Gun in Europe and First Two-War Ace

    Gabby Gabreski nearly failed out of his Army Air Corps flight training, but went on to become the top American fighter ace in Europe during World War II and a jet ace in Korea. ...

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    McArthur’s Gamble: The Bold 1814 American Raid Into Canada

    Amid the War of 1812 an American general eager to strike a blow against the British mounted a risky raid deep into western Upper Canada...

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