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Take a closer look at the harsh reality of Navy SEAL training through these powerful images...
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Aviation History
Few, if any, individuals are as well-known in the annals of aviation history as Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager....
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World War II Magazine
Aiming to illuminate an invisible combat injury, a groundbreaking film became a casualty itself...
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American History
Historian Preston argues that Stalin did not actually make patsies of Roosevelt and Churchill...
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WWII Magazine
Eugene Fluckey threw out the operating manual to become one of the deadliest American submarine commanders in the Pacific during World War II. His sub USS Barb sank ships, shelled factories and even blew up a train....
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Aviation History Magazine
A forced landing on Greenland’s ice cap set in motion one of the most extensive—and costly—search-and-rescue operations ever mounted. It was called the Snowball Route—officially the North Atlantic Ferry Route—from Goose Bay,...
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American History
With war in the wings, the United States began calling men into service in 1940....
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Military History Magazine
If you believe that spirits linger in locations where large numbers of men have perished suddenly—not all of them battlefields—then Port Chicago, Calif., qualifies as haunted ground. It’s not much today, an industrial community on...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
On July 10, in a nod to the WWII-era ‘pinks and greens’ Army uniform, soldiers training to become recruiters at Fort Knox, Ky. were among the first to receive the retro-style uniform reboot. “There was a poster at West Point, and...
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Military History
Soldiers fighting on Ramree Island in 1945 faced a more treacherous foe than any human enemy—the saltwater crocodile. A strategic battle for control of the isle, located just north of Rangoon, Burma, resulted in crocodile attacks on...
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Military History
Leadership of World War II’s top three Allied powers, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, came together 75 years ago for eight days at the Yalta Conference in Crimea....
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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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Aviation History Magazine
After 70 years, the bold British raid on Germany’s strategic river dams remains one of history’s most audacious bombing missions—a testament to ingenious engineering and the bravery of RAF aircrews....
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Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
As much of the world shifts to online learning, the National World War II Museum, despite temporarily shuttering its doors, is swiftly adapting to life in the time of Covid-19. While many might be experiencing Zoom fatigue, you won’t...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
As commemorations of the 75th Anniversary of V-E Day pivots to the virtual sphere, the Russian RT’s digital department hopes to bring the poignancy of V-E Day to the web. Despite the complicated relationship between the East and West...
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World War II
Accused of being “Hitler’s Pope” for his notable silence on the Holocaust and the deportation of Italian-born Jews, the legacy of Pope Pius XII—who reigned from 1939 to 1958—has come under further scrutiny as of late. Despite the...
