A Closer Look at the F-8E Crusader

A closer look at the F-8E Crusader, the last U.S. fighter plane with guns as its primary armament....

The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History

Every half century or so comes a book in a particular field or area of history that is monumental, that immediately becomes the authority on that subject....

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Three Generations of Combat Veterans Soon to be Buried Side-by-Side

Three generations of veteran relatives are soon to be buried together at the Great Lakes Cemetery in Holly, Michigan. Through the support of a Go Fund Me page, Dr. Robert Armstead has embarked on a year-long campaign to bring his...

Aviation History Magazine

The Truth About Tidal Wave: What Went Wrong?

A veteran of the B-24 raid on Ploesti tells the real story behind the costly mission. The events in the skies over the Mediterranean and southern Europe on August 1, 1943, have long been a historical bone of contention. On that fateful day...

Aviation History

Giant of the Air Force Stood Tall in Korea and Vietnam

Korean War ace Robbie Risner emerged as a POW leader during the seven years he spent in North Vietnam’s infamous Hanoi Hilton. James Robinson “Robbie” Risner, whose military career spanned more than 30 years, was among the most...

Aviation History

Build Your Own Rainbow

In 1943 the U.S. Army Air Forces urgently needed a long-range photoreconnaissance aircraft to track Japanese forces in the Pacific. Republic Aviation proposed the XF-12 for that role....

Military History

Humble Hero: Hiroshi Miyamura

Against all odds, Japanese American U.S. Army Cpl. Hiroshi Miyamura received America’s highest decoration for military valor during the Korean War. ...

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The James Rifle

‘No better piece for breaching can be desired than the 42-pounder James.’ Brigadier General Quincy Gillmore gave high praise for the five James Rifles used in the successful April 1862 siege of Fort Pulaski, Ga. Five James Rifles...

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Light Frigate USS Essex

The American frigate saw action against the French and Barbary pirates before falling into British hands amid the War of 1812...

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Flight of the Yellow Bird and the First Transatlantic Stowaway

Three Frenchmen were in for a surprise when they took off from Maine’s Old Orchard Beach on a transatlantic flight attempt to Paris in 1929....

Wild West

Book Review: Massacre in Minnesota

Gary Clayton Anderson shares a new perspective on the roots of the 1862 Dakota War...

Wild West

August 2020 Readers’ Letters

Readers share dispatches about the 1885 Frog Lake Massacre, guns of the Johnson County War, the prairie, bison and Theodore Roosevelt...

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‘That’s jest a good shootin’ distance’: Five American Snipers of the Great...

“Fritz over thar tho’ght he was going to have a cinch with us raw Americans. But he’s found our chaps so nasty I believe he’s just about as soon change back to the French,” an unidentified American lieutenant told war...

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