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"I looked aft, and everything behind the mast was just a wall of flame, towering up into the sky"...
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A time-honored naval tradition of wholly embarrassing a pilot while simultaneously causing significant paint damage to a plane worth millions...
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Aviation History
U.S. Navy aircrews and recruiters loved the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, but a careful review of its record suggests the Top Gun mount wasn’t all it was cranked up to be....
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Decades of armed conflict in Afghanistan have transformed the iconography of one of the country’s traditional art forms...
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A sparkling room built for Russian royalty became a mystery after it was stolen by the Nazis during World War II...
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Are you a glow-worm?...
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Military History
Robert Watt chronicles the struggle by Chihenne Apaches under Nana for the return of their reservation at Ojo Caliente, N.M....
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Wild West
The author delved into archives nationwide to write the definitive biography of Jim Bridger...
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'Hopped' up on the US of A...
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Aviation History
Allied special forces units in far-flung theaters pioneered air evacuation of wounded in World War II, providing a needed boost to the men’s morale....
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American History
A new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis distills 60 years of official and secret narratives about the world's scariest moment...
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Coolidge received the Medal of Honor on June 18, 1945...
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A San Diego museum showcases one of the Vietnam War’s most famous aircraft carriers...
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Military History
In 1759 British Maj. Robert Rogers and his vaunted rangers raided deep into Abenaki territory in Quebec—but fewer than half would make it back alive...
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Military History
Readers sound off about Ted Williams' wartime service and the 1842 mutiny aboard USS Somers...
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Bassett picked up the regiment’s colors and cried to his men, 'Follow me,' then rushed and planted the colors on the enemy position....