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Aviation History
A C-47 pilot gives his son a firsthand look at the dangerous missions he flew in flak-filled skies on D-Day and beyond....
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World War II Magazine
Four Doolittle Raiders recall the mission that rocked Japan. The first bombs, four 500-pound incendiary clusters, began tumbling down to Tokyo on Saturday, April 18, 1942, at precisely 12:20 p.m. While little is known of Sergeant Fred A....
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Military History Magazine
Edward Shames parachuted into Normandy and the Netherlands, joining the ‘Band of Brothers’ in Bastogne. On December 16, 1944, German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt’s forces launched a surprise counter- offensive in the Ardennes...
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Wild West Magazine
Jensen and the ‘Ricker Tablets’ Beginning in 1903, Nebraska lawyer and newspaper editor Eli S. Ricker began conducting interviews with people who had participated in the Indian wars so that he could include their eyewitness material in...
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World War II Magazine
Rather than escorting the mighty bomber formations that were pummeling the Third Reich in the last year of the war, Canadian Harry Hardy flew nearly 100 ground-attack missions on a combat tour that took him from Falaise to the Rhine....
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Military History, MH Interviews
Cole was co-pilot to famed USAAF Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in the lead plane of 16 B-25B bombers that boldly raided targets in Japan on April 18, 1942...
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World War II Magazine
Fighter pilot Colonel Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson, 96, is a triple ace, credited with 16.25 enemy kills in the skies over Europe....
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Wild West Magazine
Marshall on the Little Bighorn. Born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, Joseph M. Marshall III is a Lakota craftsman, lecturer, actor, primitive archer, historical consultant and author of nine books, with more on the way. Two of...
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American History Magazine
Forget what you’ve learned about Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock. Stunning new archaeological evidence reveals that the real roots of American independence and the entrepreneurial spirit which drove it were thriving in Virginia’s Tidewater....
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American History Magazine
What issues divided the Federalists and the Republicans in 1800? The biggest one was war with France. France and England were fighting each other all over the world, and both countries with their vast navies were attacking our...
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American History Magazine
On July 5, 1851, a Mexican woman became the only woman ever hanged for murder in the state of California. She was charged with killing Frederick Cannon, a white man, in the gold mining town of Downieville. The incident has become part of...
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World War II Magazine
Seventeen years after The Civil War copped dozens of awards, including two Emmys and a Peabody, Ken Burns has gone back to war—World War II—with The War. Born in Brooklyn, the son of a cultural anthropologist, Burns dreamed of becoming...
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World War II Magazine
As the eighteenth chief of staff of the United States Air Force, Gen. T. Michael Moseley has been a high-profile proponent of revolutionary technologies including unmanned aerial vehicles (“I love UAVs!” he once declared to a group of...
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Vietnam Magazine
A daring and legendary warrior in WWII, Korea and Vietnam, who forged the American commando forces, still has plenty to say about the war in Vietnam and the men who fought it. Colonel Lewis Lee Millett is a combat-decorated veteran of...
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World War II Magazine
Conversation with General Sam Wilson, a member of Merrill's Marauders during WWII...
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Vietnam Magazine
Colonel Gordon R. Roberts, a Vietnam and Iraq war veteran and only Medal of Honor recipient on active duty, speaks out on soldiers and soldiering. Three days after graduating from high school in May 1968, 17-year-old Gordon R. Roberts...