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Soaring Over Vietnam in the Flying Banana
Before the ubiquitous ‘Huey,’ an unsung hero brought mobility to Vietnam’s battlefields.
Voices | Walt Sides, Rolling Thunder
In 1973, when the first prisoners of war were freed by North Vietnam and […]
You Command: Chinese Defense at Shanghai, 1937
By mid-1937, Imperial Japan’s aggressive expansionist actions against its Asian neighbors had provoked a […]
Blood on the Border: The Mexican War
In 1846 the Mexican War erupted along the Rio Grande River over the disputed […]
Battle of Cedar Creek: From Triumph to Catastrophe
By the 17th of October 1864, the strategic noose had tightened on the South. […]
The Rise of North Vietnam’s Air Defense
Rapid mobilization of anti-aircraft guns, missiles and jet-fighters provided Hanoi with a potent resistance to U.S. bombers in the early years of the war.
Colin Powell’s Vietnam and the Making of an American Statesman
Colin Powell on lessons learned while serving in America’s second-longest war in an exclusive 2016 interview with HistoryNet’s Vietnam editor Chuck Springston
They Came and Died, to Keep the Past Upon its Throne
A Naval Reserve officer, David Greenway started his career as a Time magazine war […]
Doomsday on Wheels
The U.S. Army’s unique, 85-ton artillery launcher could certainly shoot, but could it really […]