Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]
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Jerrie Mock: Record-Breaking American Female Pilot
In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.
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Why the US Firebombed Tokyo in 1945 — and Risked War Crimes by Targeting Civilians
‘Black Snow,’ author James M. Scott spoke to Aviation History magazine on Curtis LeMay and his controversial air tactics.
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The EB-66 Destroyer: A Life-Saving Intelligence Aircraft
The EB-66—the Air Force’s only electronic intelligence aircraft in Southeast Asia—ensured the survival of hundreds of American air crews as it mapped and jammed Hanoi’s SAM radars. (Gregory Proch)
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Army Football Reveals WWII-Themed Uniform for Navy Matchup
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point decided to look to its past for sartorial inspiration.
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‘The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy’ Review: Becoming a Superpower
WWII birthed a competing superpower.
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The Civil War’s Most Interesting General
He was Lincoln, Grant and Sherman’s go-to man — but you’ve probably never heard of him.
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Book Review: ‘Ways and Means’ by Roger Lowenstein
A detailed look at U.S. leaders’ struggle to finance the Civil War.
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‘Devotion’ Tells an Understated Friendship Story Set in the Korean War
Its story centers not on the war itself, but on the unlikely friendship that develops between a swaggering Lt. Tom Hudner and the Navy’s first Black aviator, Ensign Jesse Brown.
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How An Artist Painted Nature To Reveal the Horrors of War
Paul Nash’s paintings reveal what soldiers—and the land itself—endured in two world wars.
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He Was the First to Fly Across America. But Crashed 8 Times Along the Way.
Was Cal Rodgers the unluckiest record-breaking pilot?
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They Assumed the Enemy in Vietnam Was Incapable of Intercepting Radio Communications. They Were Wrong.
Senior U.S. commanders thought the NVA and Viet Cong were too “primitive” to make deadly use of radio intel. Careless communications cost American lives.