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A Prime Accoutrement: The Cap Box
Cap boxes were deceptively intricate, essential pieces of gear
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Who Knew? The Art Deco Building in Gettysburg that Housed German POWs During WWII
What’s this striking art deco building doing in the middle of the nation’s most important Civil War battlefield?
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Where Those Rockets Got Their Red Glare
America owes its national anthem to South Asians who perfected the short-range missile (and sold it to the British)
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Aerial Minesweeping: Ingenious Solution to a Hidden Undersea Menace
When Germany deployed magnetic mines early in the war, Britain countered with aircraft that could explode them by mimicking a ship’s magnetic signature.
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‘Our Prisoners’: A Journalist Reports on Andersonville
The atrocities, the Times said, “would make the blood of a cannibal run cold”
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Why the Grumman F-14 Tomcat Never Lived Up to Its Reputation
U.S. Navy aircrews and recruiters loved it, but its record suggests the Top Gun mount wasn’t all it was cranked up to be.
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‘Never Forget’ Rose Created for Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Centennial
“Having a rose named Never Forget will be a reminder and help to perpetuate the message that we must never forget; that we are united with and honor all those served and sacrificed on behalf of America in times of war and armed conflict”
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March 2021 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about civilian victims of the Rhodesian Bush War, the Sherman tank and the Munich Agreement
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Remembering the Siege of Leningrad
Nazi Germany planned the horrors of Leningrad with more premeditated malice than many historians have previously realized