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Doughboy’s Smuggled Letter Home Recounts Dangerous Ocean Crossing

In late 1917, an American soldier risked government censors’ wrath to smuggle home a letter about dodging German submarines while aboard a troopship headed for war...
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This Famous Bathtub Has Met its Waterloo

Imagine the poor PFC tasked with lugging around Napoleon’s personal bathtub ...
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Oliver Otis Howard: Westward, Christian Soldier

General O.O. Howard found grace and lost an arm during the Civil War before heading west to confront Apache leader Cochise and Nez Perce Chief Joseph...
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June 2021 Readers’ Letters

Readers share dispatches about a disputed tintype of Pat Garrett, Garrett’s murder and Billy the Kid...
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Letter From Wild West — June 2021

For bad or worse, ‘outlaws’ come to mind at the mention of Indian Territory...
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On-Screen Review: News of the World

In this Paul Greengrass film Tom Hanks plays a town crier who escorts a lost waif through wild and woolly Reconstruction-era Texas...
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‘Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker’ May Have Been Terrible, but at Least...

I’ll never get back the 144 minutes I spent watching the midnight premiere of “Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker,” a movie that took everything we knew and loved about a galaxy far, far away and crashed it into the forest moon of Endor....
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What Happened to ‘Operation Vengeance’ Wingman Raymond K. Hine?

Pilots involved in the mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto reported seeing Hine’s left engine smoking, but no one saw him go down....
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The Soviet Union’s Top-Secret Operation to Repatriate Downed U.S. Airmen

Hundreds of American fliers ended up stranded in Siberia—creating a conundrum for the Soviets, who were not at war with nearby Japan....
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Marketing Abraham Lincoln to the Masses

The President’s faithful secretaries led a crusade to preserve his place in history...
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Last Words of A Marine’s Friend and Hero: ‘I’m Going to Get...

Marine 1st Lt. Lee Roy Herron saved the lives of numerous Marines before being killed during a Feb. 22, 1969 battle in the A Shau Valley...
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Vendetta: Athens vs. Sicily

When Athens sent a massive invasion fleet against Syracuse, a merciless Sicilian vendetta followed...
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Jenna Coleman Set to Play Joan Bright, the Real-Life Inspiration Behind Miss...

Working as an administrative officer, Bright helped to organize several wartime and postwar conferences including Tehran and Yalta...
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He Went from NYC to Vietnam to Deliver Beer During a War...

Raise your glasses, because this is going to be a fun one....
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Breaking the Blockade Review: The Bahamas During the Civil War

During its heyday, blockade running was a systematic and, for many, a lucrative operation run by a cartel of industrious merchant princes...
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Lessons Learned from the Battle of Hattin, 118

King Guy of Jerusalem ignored his not only Crusader history, but also his own, leading to a catastrophic defeat...