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People Archives:Harry S. Truman

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The Scandal that Led to Harry S. Truman Becoming President and Marilyn Monroe Getting Married

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Did Curtiss-Wright deliberately sell defective engines to the U.S. Army during WWII?

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Tweet! Jailbird Politicians, An American Staple

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Photo of West Berlin children perched on the fence of Tempelhof airport watch the fleets of U.S. airplanes bringing in supplies in 1948 to circumvent the Russian blockade of land and waterways. The airlift began June 25, 1948 and continued for 11 months.

Berlin Airlift at 75: The Most Remarkable Supply Operation in Human History

by Don Smith7/13/20237/13/2023
South Vietnamese citizens try to board a bus out of Saigon in the frenzied last days before the capital fell. A new book details the efforts of an American banker to help some of his Vietnamese colleagues escape. Book cover, Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old American Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians.

Book Review: Getting Out of Saigon / How a 27-Year-Old American Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians

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Photo of British Army officer General Sir John Greer Dill (1881-1944), Chief of the Imperial General Staff, studies a globe in his office in London during World War II in January 1941.

Disdained by Churchill, Respected by Marshall, This Brit Proved the Essential Liaison Between the Western Allies During WWII

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Read a Letter From Ho Chi Minh to U.S. President Truman Before the Vietnam War Began

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Looking at the Korean War, 71 Years On

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Above, Beyond, and Forgotten

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Architect of Victory

by Jonathan W. Jordan9/2/201912/11/2020

Presidential Poker

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