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His Sergeant in Vietnam Became His Hero. He Never Forgot It.
Willie Johnson was a 35-year-old African American from South Carolina with a wife and six kids. What did I, a…
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At Eight-Years-Old This Girl Survived the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. Now, at 90, She Recalls Her Ordeal.
Leanne Blinzler Noe was eight years old and living in the Philippines with her family when the Japanese attacked the…
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Meet the Heroes Who Delivered Aid and Comforted the Dying on the Battlefields of World War I
In the agony of trench warfare and no man’s land, the sound of a skitter and a wet nose —…
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This Union Officer Escaped a Confederate Prison and Became Grant’s Most Trusted Gunner
Tour Stop One at Vicksburg National Military Park is the location of “Battery DeGolyer.” Named after its commanding officer, Captain…
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Civil War Art, in the Round and Mobile
As it is today, entertainment was an important part of life in the 19th century—and for soldiers stationed far from…
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These Fighting ‘Mighty Midgets’ Packed Big Guns
The Asiatic-Pacific Theater in World War II culminated with a grueling, bloody amphibious campaign to capture one Japanese-held seabound stronghold…
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The Fighting for This Italian Town Was so Brutal They Called It the Stalingrad of the Adriatic
The Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment—a Canadian unit known as the Hasty Ps—were ordered to relieve the 1st Battalion Royal…
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Build your own version of Flying Tiger ace R.T. Smith’s shark-mouthed Curtiss P-40
Probably no other aircraft from World War II are as easily recognized as the shark-mouthed Curtiss P-40s flown by the…
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An Inside Look At 100 Years of Honoring America’s War Dead
America is a nation built on distinct individualism as well as common values. This sense of diversity in unity is…
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A Pacifist Scribbled A Song When She Was Half-Asleep. It Became A Famous Union Battle March
The lyrics to America’s most famous marching song of the Civil War were written when their author was half-asleep and…
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