A small group of die-hard aviators fended off Japanese invaders at Guadalcanal, code-named ‘Cactus.’
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Doctors in the Vietnam War: The Ultimate Training Ground
Western doctors who served in Vietnam, whether military or civilian, returned with a deeply altered perspective of their own professions.
Book Review: Life in Mr. Lincoln’s Navy (by Dennis J. Ringle) : ACW
Life in Mr. Lincoln’s Navy, by Dennis J. Ringle, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., […]
Book Review: With Courage and Delicacy: Civil War on the Peninsula: Women and the U.S. Sanitary Commission (By Nancy Scripture Garrison): ACW
The women of the U.S. Sanitary Commission risked their own health to care for […]
Book Review: Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself (By Jerome Loving) : ACW
The Civil War saved Walt Whitman, and in turn he helped save thousands of Civil War soldiers.
Civil War Times: December 2000 Editorial
NATURAL CAUSES Nothing gives you an appreciation for the modern world like a good […]
Germs, deadlier than bullets?
Germs, not bullets, were a Civil War soldier’s deadliest foes. Army doctors were a […]
The Cactus Air Force: A Thorn in Japan’s Side
A small group of die-hard aviators fended off Japanese invaders at Guadalcanal, code-named ‘Cactus.’
Shoot-Out on Pennsylvania: May/June ’98 American History Feature
Thanks to the actions of the men assigned to protect him, President Harry […]
Incredible Journey from Dunkirk to Nagasaki
RAF officer Aidan MacCarthy narrowly escaped the Nazis, spent three years in Japanese POW camps and survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.