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82483959e5a2085a0173c4efc529ea02 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-f-86-sabre-vs-mig-15-korea-1950-53.htm | F-86 Sabre vs MIG-15: Korea 1950-53 | F-86 Sabre vs MIG-15: Korea 1950-53
F-86 SABRE VS MIG-15: Korea 1950-53
by Douglas C. Dildy and Warren E. Thompson, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2013, $18.95
Just as posterity regards the Sopwith Camel and Fokker Dr.I as the classic dogfighters of World War I, and the Spitfire Mark I and Me-109E as the paladins of th... |
65448f77afe9dc7cc5744dec4b71c9dc | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-for-home-and-the-southland-a-history-of-the-48th-georgia-infantry-regiment-by-john-zwemer-acw.htm | Book Review: For Home and the Southland: A History of the 48th Georgia Infantry Regiment (by John Zwemer) : ACW | Book Review: For Home and the Southland: A History of the 48th Georgia Infantry Regiment (by John Zwemer) : ACW
For Home and the Southland: A History of the 48th Georgia Infantry Regiment, by John Zwemer, NButternut & Blue, Baltimore, Md., 1999, $24.95.
th Georgia Infantry Regiment went into action during the Peninsula... |
05568f8cab855b18dd54d0d95b2d629a | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-grant-wins-the-war-decision-at-vicksburg-by-james-r-arnold.htm | Book Review: Grant Wins the War: Decision at Vicksburg (by James R. Arnold) | Book Review: Grant Wins the War: Decision at Vicksburg (by James R. Arnold)
Grant Wins the War: Decision at Vicksburg, by James R. Arnold, John Wiley and Sons, New York, (212) 850-6000, 398 pages, $30.
When General-in-Chief Henry W. Halleck congratulated Major General Ulysses S. Grant on capturing Vicksburg, he rejoice... |
758842e6a6f88a190c05c8a6215f3485 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-hitler-on-the-doorstep-operation-sea-lion-the-german-plan-to-invade-britain-egbert-kieser-ah.htm | Book Review: Hitler on the Doorstep: Operation ‘Sea Lion’–The German Plan to Invade Britain: (Egbert Kieser) : AH | Book Review: Hitler on the Doorstep: Operation ‘Sea Lion’–The German Plan to Invade Britain: (Egbert Kieser) : AH
Hermann Göring was not solely to blame for the failure of Operation Sea Lion in 1940.
By Blaine Taylor
At one point Operation Sea Lion, the planned German invasion of Britain, was set to start on July 8, 19... |
d1c6558f2237d3df201c43dd1bbd311d | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-kontum-diary-captured-writings-bring-peace-to-a-vietnam-veteran-paul-reed-and-ted-schwarz-vn.htm | Book Review: Kontum Diary: Captured Writings Bring Peace to a Vietnam Veteran (Paul Reed and Ted Schwarz) : VN | Book Review: Kontum Diary: Captured Writings Bring Peace to a Vietnam Veteran (Paul Reed and Ted Schwarz) : VN
Kontum Diary: Captured Writings Bring Peace to a Vietnam Veteran by Paul Reed and Ted Schwarz, SummitPublishing Group, Arlington, Texas, 1996, $22.95.
One of the great unanswered questions for most combat vete... |
244fe87d69c3c50c8e3d99b94fd77d4e | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-lincolns-foreign-legion-the-39th-new-york-infantry-the-garibaldi-guard-michael-bacarella-acw.htm | Book Review: Lincoln’s Foreign Legion: The 39th New York Infantry, The Garibaldi Guard (Michael Bacarella) : ACW | Book Review: Lincoln’s Foreign Legion: The 39th New York Infantry, The Garibaldi Guard (Michael Bacarella) : ACW
Lincoln’s Foreign Legion: The 39th New York Infantry, The Garibaldi Guard, by Michael Bacarella, White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., Shippensburg, Pa., $34.95. The Irish and Germans are the two nationalitie... |
d5aea396447fde1cd658be283372597b | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-national-parks-and-the-womans-voice-a-history-polly-welts-kaufman-ah.htm | Book Review: NATIONAL PARKS AND THE WOMAN’S VOICE: A HISTORY (Polly Welts Kaufman) : AH | Book Review: NATIONAL PARKS AND THE WOMAN’S VOICE: A HISTORY (Polly Welts Kaufman) : AH
NATIONAL PARKS AND THE WOMAN’S VOICE: A HISTORY, by Polly Welts Kaufman (University of New Mexico Press, 320 pages, $42.50). The story of the contributions made by women to the preservation of America’s significant natural and histo... |
a39ad14923ea13bbecf045657bcd1d13 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-no-hope-heaven-no-fear-hell.htm | Book Review: No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell | Book Review: No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell
No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell: The Stafford-Townsend Feud of Colorado County, 1871–1911, by James C. Kearney, Bill Stein and James Smallwood, University of North Texas Press, Denton, 2016, $29.95 In No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell (a title inspired by verses ... |
e610c93fd4498975f4632b54516680e1 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-old-chisholm-trail.htm | Book Review: The Old Chisholm Trail | Book Review: The Old Chisholm Trail
The Old Chisholm Trail: From Cow Path to Tourist Stop, by Wayne Ludwig, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 2018, $37
After the release of Wayne Gard’s classic The Chisholm Trail in 1954, there was a long dry spell of such narratives, until the 150th anniversary commemoratio... |
82aedbce93b3477fcd70b1912f765cca | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-old-west-showdown.htm | Book Review: Old West Showdown | Book Review: Old West Showdown
Old West Showdown: Two Authors Wrangle Over the Truth About the Mythic Old West, by Bill Markley and Kellen Cutsforth, TwoDot, Guilford, Conn., and Helena, Mont. 2018, $22.95
Those of you who hate hearing that George Custer messed up at the June 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn will like... |
6576d0b37cec291b694c1021171ad774 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-return-to-the-reich.htm | Book Review: Return to the Reich | Book Review: Return to the Reich
Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee’s Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis, by Eric Lichtblau, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston and New York, 2019, $28
“How was it,” wondered writer Eric Lichtblau aloud to an elderly Holocaust survivor he knew, “that so many anonymous people did suc... |
7195f5817bc52045ad3f72689092549d | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-revenger.htm | Book Review: The Revenger | Book Review: The Revenger
The Revenger: The Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok, by Aaron Woodard, TwoDot Books, Guilford, Conn., and Helena, Mont., 2018, $16.95
Wild Bill Hickok was not only one of the top gunfighters of the Old West but also one of the best-documented shootists of the period. Hickok’s merit as a gunfi... |
f8af8c1149332b52bf2d15f07157a25e | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-small-boats-and-daring-men.htm | Book Review: Small Boats and Daring Men | Book Review: Small Boats and Daring Men
Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare and the Early American Navy, by Benjamin Armstrong, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2019, $34.95
Covert operations often prove crucial toward weakening enemy resistance, while also serving to boost morale in th... |
4116a331109064443bb08e224f794b52 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-taken-captive-a-japanese-pows-story-ooka-shohei-world-war-ii.htm | Book Review: Taken Captive: A Japanese POW’s Story | Book Review: Taken Captive: A Japanese POW’s Story
Taken Captive: A Japanese POW’s Story, by Ooka Shohei, translated and edited by Wayne P. Lammers, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1996, $27.50.
Taken Captive is one part description of an American prisoner of war camp for Japanese prisoners in World War II, one part ... |
bb07f9503681de671d247a0405e0563d | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-the-bully-pulpit.htm | Book Review: The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism | Book Review: The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
THE BULLY PULPIT: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)
Here’s some of what’s in Doris Kearns Goodwin’s latest tome: progressive Republ... |
08a10d9c63d162c8d2127fe7eb2acd26 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-the-crowded-hour.htm | Book Review: The Crowded Hour | Book Review: The Crowded Hour
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders and the Dawn of the American Century, by Clay Risen, Scribner, New York, 2019, $30
New York Times editor Clay Risen, a connoisseur and historian of whiskeys, examines the mythos and foreign policy legacy of the United States’ most stor... |
dc79af71b71a9e20b14d281d3f16a615 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-the-dahlgren-affair-terror-and-conspiracy-in-the-civil-war-by-duane-schultz-acw.htm | Book Review: The Dahlgren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War (By Duane Schultz) : ACW | Book Review: The Dahlgren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War (By Duane Schultz) : ACW
Judson Kilpatrick’s failed raid on Richmond opened the way for a new and decidedly nasty kind of warfare.
By Phil Noblitt
In the winter of 1864, Union cavalry commander Hugh Judson Kilpatrick visited the White House to pro... |
78f1f7a980cfbd780822994c271633df | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-the-damned-of-petersburg.htm | Book Review: The Damned of Petersburg | Book Review: The Damned of Petersburg
The Damned of Petersburg
By Ralph Peters
Forge Books, 2016, 432 pages, $27.99
Best-selling author Ralph Peters remains at the top of his form as a master of expertly crafted historical fiction with this fourth installment in his multiple W.Y. Boyd Award-winning Civil War historical... |
7a8d91704a02ed1c32b5f4eba17a40d8 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-the-forgotten-stonewall-of-the-west-major-general-john-stevens-bowen-by-phillip-thomas-tucker-ah.htm | Book Review: The Forgotten “Stonewall of the West”: Major General John Stevens Bowen (by Phillip Thomas Tucker) : AH | Book Review: The Forgotten “Stonewall of the West”: Major General John Stevens Bowen (by Phillip Thomas Tucker) : AH
The Forgotten “Stonewall of the West”: Major General John Stevens Bowen, by Phillip Thomas Tucker, Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia, (912) 752-2880, 379 pages, $32.95. Phillip Thomas Tucker has ne... |
885b2ad0b87f8f9b3a64cfb2e81d25f6 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-the-secret-war-against-hanoi-kennedys-and-johnsons-use-of-spies-saboteurs-and-covert-warriors-in-north-vietnam-richard-h-shultz-jr-spies-commandos-how-america-lost-the-sec.htm | Book Review: The Secret War Against Hanoi: Kennedy’s and Johnson’s Use of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam (Richard H. Shultz, Jr.) Spies & Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam (Kenneth Conboy and Dale Andradé): VN | Book Review: The Secret War Against Hanoi: Kennedy’s and Johnson’s Use of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam (Richard H. Shultz, Jr.) Spies & Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam (Kenneth Conboy and Dale Andradé): VN
Two new books on the secret war in Vietnam provide amazing ... |
bf2cb09e5ea1f7cc38cecc3e8add8f92 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-the-vietnam-war-1945-1975.htm | Review: The Vietnam War 1945-1975 | Review: The Vietnam War 1945-1975
The Vietnam War 1945-1975
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
D Giles Ltd.
October 4, 2017-April 22, 2018
$17.95
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The Vietnam War is about to make headlines again. In September, PBS debuts an18-hour account of that conflict, explicated further in an expans... |
10f13448af8bab1a927340bbafea870b | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-the-west-an-illustrated-history-geoffrey-c-ward-ah.htm | Book Review: THE WEST: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY (Geoffrey C. Ward) : AH | Book Review: THE WEST: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY (Geoffrey C. Ward) : AH
THE WEST: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, by Geoffrey C. Ward (Little, Brown and Company, 446 pages, $60.00). This stunning companion volume to the PBS series from Ken Burns and Stephen Ives (See September/October 1996 issue of American History) examines th... |
348dc374a6af3acb0108c3afb4521998 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-tombstone.htm | Book Review: Tombstone | Book Review: Tombstone
Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday and the Vendetta Ride from Hell, by Tom Clavin, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2020, $29.99
In 2012 Jeff Guinn gave us The New York Times best seller The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral—And How It Changed the American West. The Wild West’s b... |
b9a4a8eabb4596affa3753c4c04f0920 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-true-grit.htm | Book Review: True Grit | Book Review: True Grit
True Grit: A 50-Year Tribute, by the Ridgway Western Heritage Society, Ridgway, Colo., 2019, $20 plus shipping (for information on obtaining a copy, email the Ouray County Ranch History Museum at [email protected]; the book is also available on the museum website)
“Wow! If I had known that, I’d h... |
128643130be962d7ac53aeb73a5801de | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-unlikely-general.htm | Book Review: Unlikely General | Book Review: Unlikely General
Unlikely General: “Mad” Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America, by Mary Stockwell, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2018, $35
The author, former chair of history at Lourdes University in Ohio, delves into the life of Anthony Wayne, the general whose military action against the re... |
3f508a0fa17f3a1fd99a493296d1e640 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-wars-empire.htm | Book Review: Wars for Empire | Book Review: Wars for Empire
Wars for Empire: Apaches, the United States and the Southwest Borderlands, by Janne Lahti, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2017, $34.95
Offering a Western European perspective on the American West, Janne Lahti, an adjunct professor of history at the University of Helsinki, Finland, lo... |
e54d91d7b005103a612f31dcd72885a0 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-where-the-rivers-ran-red.htm | Book Review: Where the Rivers Ran Red | Book Review: Where the Rivers Ran Red
Where the Rivers Ran Red: The Indian Fights of George Armstrong Custer, by Michael N. Donahue, San Juan Publishing, Montrose, Colo., 2018, $59.95
Many have attempted to record George Armstrong Custer’s Indian fights, particularly the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the results ha... |
2d4e4477bbeb14d766259622b204105a | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-wild-bill-donovan.htm | Book Review: Wild Bill Donovan | Book Review: Wild Bill Donovan
Wild Bill Donovan The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage By Douglas Waller. 480 pp. Free Press, 2011. $30.
‘Bill Donovan is the sort of guy who thought nothing of parachuting into France, blowing up a bridge…then dancing on the roof of the St. Regis Hotel with a G... |
bfc9704b18492b3be42d0789607b3782 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-wild-bill.htm | Book Review: Wild Bill | Book Review: Wild Bill
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter, by Tom Clavin, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2019, $29.99
New York publishers haven’t forgotten the Wild West, at least not the big names in the Wild West, and Will Bill Hickok has a name recognition right up there with his fr... |
0b78b2ccc060f3d4a5d0767791fe445e | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-will-not-surrender-hair-horses-tail-2.htm | Book Review: ‘I Will Not Surrender the Hair of a Horse’s Tail’ | Book Review: ‘I Will Not Surrender the Hair of a Horse’s Tail’
“I Will Not Surrender the Hair of a Horse’s Tailâ€: The Victorio Campaign, 1879, by Robert N. Watt, Helion and Co., Solihull, U.K., 2018, $49.95 Anyone expecting a rousing tale of horse soldiers vs. Indians in “I Will Not Surrender the Hair of a Hors... |
4029b24e4fb9a5a1cde15976adabc624 | https://articles.historynet.com/book-review-wilsons-creek-the-second-battle-of-the-civil-war-and-the-men-who-fought-it-by-william-garret-piston-and-richard-w-hatcher-iii-acw.htm | Book Review: Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It (By William Garret Piston and Richard W. Hatcher III): ACW | Book Review: Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It (By William Garret Piston and Richard W. Hatcher III): ACW
A look at the Civil War’s second big battle, and an Iowan of General Ulysses S. Grant’s western army airs his views. By Earl J. Hess Historians are finally beginning to a... |
eea424fc69ec3e3330262f50a05bd37b | https://articles.historynet.com/book-reviews-getting-around-gettysburg-on-two-wheels.htm | Book Reviews: Getting Around Gettysburg on Two Wheels | Book Reviews: Getting Around Gettysburg on Two Wheels
Battlefield guide is a must for any cyclist’s daypack Bicycling Gettysburg National Military Park: The Cyclist’s Civil War Travel GuideBy Sue ThibodeauCivil War Cycling, 2019, $37 Whether you’re a cycling enthusiast, history buff, or both, Sue Thibodeau’s Bicycling ... |
67b9173395ef0fbecc65f48b02ae0a2d | https://articles.historynet.com/book-reviews-roosevelts-hidden-helpmates.htm | The Roosevelts’ Hidden Helpmates | The Roosevelts’ Hidden Helpmates
The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency by Kathryn Smith (Touchstone, 2016, $28).
Americans who loved Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt did so not only because the First Couple saw their country through depression and war but bec... |
8fab23eaf9089c8f02c8eda8ddf8b92f | https://articles.historynet.com/born-in-the-usa.htm | Birthright Citizenship: Who Gets to Be an American | Birthright Citizenship: Who Gets to Be an American
From Dred Scott to anchor babies, ‘Born in the USA’ has caused hot debate
THE CIVIL WAR brought freedom to four million enslaved people. However, in January 1866, the meaning of that freedom under the law remained nebulous. The 13th Amendment, which states had ratified... |
f4ca32ab5ae55187c9301dbf65019be5 | https://articles.historynet.com/branch-rickey-hurls-barbed-insults-jackie-robinson.htm | Branch Rickey Hurls Barbed Insults at Jackie Robinson | Branch Rickey Hurls Barbed Insults at Jackie Robinson
“You got a girl?” asked the old white man.
“I think so,” said the young black man.
“What do you mean, ‘I think so’?”
The young black man said he had a girlfriend and they’d discussed marriage, but he didn’t know how long she’d wait for him.
“Do you love her?”
“I lov... |
5ffbadc9750f5cae7f03e330724f17ec | https://articles.historynet.com/breaking-the-city-of-kings-the-battle-for-nuremberg-1945.htm | Breaking the City of Kings: The Battle for Nuremberg, 1945 | Breaking the City of Kings: The Battle for Nuremberg, 1945
The medieval city of Nuremberg, once the seat of power for German kings, became the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II in the month of April 1945. As American forces closed in to seize the former bastion of Adolf Hitler’s political power, f... |
accc6e858ca08eb4057f3e600a2772d7 | https://articles.historynet.com/bringing-auschwitz-inmates-music-back-to-life.htm | Bringing Auschwitz Inmates’ Music Back to Life | Bringing Auschwitz Inmates’ Music Back to Life
Prisoners played joyous arrangements in harrowing circumstances.
“Sing a Song When You’re Sad.” “The Most Beautiful Time of Life.” For songs arranged by inmates and performed at a death camp, the upbeat titles are jarring.
Dr. Patricia Hall, a University of Michigan profes... |
d562da9af2e5ea522b2780d267885649 | https://articles.historynet.com/browns-great-adventure-the-first-transatlantic-flight.htm | Alcock and Brown’s Great Adventure: The First Nonstop Transatlantic Flight | Alcock and Brown’s Great Adventure: The First Nonstop Transatlantic Flight
‘Yesterday I was in America, and I am the first man in Europe to say that,’ said John Alcock after his transatlantic flight with Arthur Whitten Brown.
The real story of the first nonstop transatlantic flight is one that’s surprisingly few people... |
e35a641b624c35c0dfb04a54acaf726f | https://articles.historynet.com/capitol-crimes-congressional-violence-in-civil-war-run-up.htm | Capitol Crimes: Congressional Violence in Civil War Run-Up | Capitol Crimes: Congressional Violence in Civil War Run-Up
Polarization turned bloody as politicians fought over slavery
Today’s polarization in Congress has nothing on its antebellum antecedent. In her new book, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War, Yale historian Joanne B. Freeman docume... |
9ffde34a3f7228df2c865eb5157f1fff | https://articles.historynet.com/captain-sally-october-1998-civil-war-times-feature.htm | “Captain Sally” – October 1998 Civil War Times Feature | “Captain Sally” – October 1998 Civil War Times Feature
“Captain Sally”
SUBMITTED BY REED ALVORD OF HAMILTON, NEW YORK
NAME: Sally Louisa Tompkins DATES: 1833 to 1916 ALLEGIANCE: Confederate HIGHEST RANK: Captain UNIT: N/A SERVICE RECORD: Opened Robertson Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, on August 1, 1861. Commissioned... |
539c10e6d01473b27afaa2179ad4109c | https://articles.historynet.com/catkillers-con-thien.htm | Catkillers Over Con Thien | Catkillers Over Con Thien
Flying low and slow, pilots in Cessna O-1 Bird Dogs hunted down the enemy.
Courtesy Larry Deibert
Army Capt. Charles L. “Larry” Deibert’s hardest day in Vietnam ended when he chucked a rat out of his cockpit window. After landing at the Dong Ha base in northern South Vietnam to drop off his ba... |
69888a1accb866cef66d29d5bbe45282 | https://articles.historynet.com/ch-21-shawnee-the-flying-banana.htm | Arsenal | CH-21 Shawnee, the Flying Banana | Arsenal | CH-21 Shawnee, the Flying Banana
In 1952, the U.S. Air Force ordered 32 Piasecki H-21A Workhorse search and rescue (SAR) helicopters. These were essentially improvements on a late World War II–era U.S. Navy design, the HRP-1 Rescuer, which was the U.S. military’s first tandem-rotor helicopter. Nicknamed the “... |
25078414167508889d0b71da96add2f2 | https://articles.historynet.com/churchills-improbable-army.htm | Churchill’s Improbable Army | Churchill’s Improbable Army
In 1914 Winston Churchill created the Royal Naval Division, whose men would fight as infantry in some of the fiercest battles of World War I. AFTER THE VIRTUAL DECIMATION of the regular British Army at the Marne and Ypres in 1914, necessity quickly ushered in the creation of army formations ... |
7c38722b406d54906e51f16fdeefa6a1 | https://articles.historynet.com/cias-costly-mistake.htm | The CIA’s Costly Mistake | The CIA’s Costly Mistake
In November 1967, Joe Hovey tried to warn the Johnson administration about the Tet Offensive—but his CIA superiors said he was crying wolf.
Unlike great statesmen, military leaders, diplomats or openly declared swashbuckling intelligence operatives, reallife intelligence analysts work quietly i... |
9f90cb8f0afe57124f225cd06fb462b2 | https://articles.historynet.com/civil-war-circuses.htm | Civil War Circuses Beloved by Blue and Gray Audiences | Civil War Circuses Beloved by Blue and Gray Audiences
Soldiers and civilians flocked to see the freakish and fantastic
On the eve of the Civil War, the circus—or “menagerie,” as some shows featuring human oddities were called—was an immensely popular cultural phenomenon across the United States. The 19th-century equiva... |
111fea863ac4e6360af4333bb1bd3f36 | https://articles.historynet.com/civil-war-fight-songs.htm | Civil War Fight Songs | Civil War Fight Songs
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“Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds”
Homer wrote those words more than two millennia before the Civil War, but few in the ranks of either side would have argued the point. A good rallying anthem co... |
c518e61d8ef508c1498e1441135ed181 | https://articles.historynet.com/civil-war-times-letter-from-the-editor-july-2006.htm | Civil War Times Letter from the Editor- July 2006 | Civil War Times Letter from the Editor- July 2006
Crossroads Of Nations Sometimes it’s hard to avoid looking at a battle as though it is an island unto itself. It’s particularly difficult when you’re standing on the very ground where that battle took place, or you’re engrossed in a well-written, well-researched... |
b44bbbd423f86d29d9c10d02f678373f | https://articles.historynet.com/combat-nurses-exhausting-sorrows-unexpected-joys.htm | A Combat Nurse’s Exhausting Sorrows, Unexpected Joys | A Combat Nurse’s Exhausting Sorrows, Unexpected Joys
Army nurse June Wandrey stood five feet two inches tall with, in her words, “finely honed muscles that were dynamite ready.” That forceful spirit was evident in her wartime letters as well; Wandrey did not mince phrases when it came to her disdain for Franklin D. Roo... |
f811a7e27adba9868e2e46751f6f7428 | https://articles.historynet.com/command-solution-world-war-africa-1914.htm | You Command Solution: World War I in Africa, 1914 | You Command Solution: World War I in Africa, 1914
The September 2013 issue of Armchair General ® presented the Combat Decision Game “World War I in Africa, 1914.” This CDG placed readers in the role of German army Lieutenant Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbec commander of the Schutztruppe (colonial security troops) for the... |
929dfe59466f45801af98c3c77f259cf | https://articles.historynet.com/confederate-ordnance-chief-did-a-bang-up-job-supplying-the-south.htm | Confederate Ordnance Chief Did a Bang-Up Job Supplying the South | Confederate Ordnance Chief Did a Bang-Up Job Supplying the South
Late in the war, General Josiah Gorgas advocated arming slaves to fight Confederate armies never lost a battle because they lacked sufficient arms or ammunition. This achievement came despite formidable challenges and depended, to a significant extent, on... |
beb435a2073f366dfe9df1bac39c9502 | https://articles.historynet.com/controversial-crash-k-14.htm | Controversial Crash of K-14 | Controversial Crash of K-14
Was the loss of a patrol blimp off Maine in 1944 the result of pilot error, as the U.S. Navy maintains to this day, or was it due to a battle with a German U-boat?
When the U.S. Navy blimp K-14 went down in the Gulf of Maine in July 1944, it left behind a series of unanswered questions. The ... |
62670e7f1df739a433cc93850f137c3b | https://articles.historynet.com/conversation-bob-dole-the-gentleman-from-kansas.htm | Conversation: Bob Dole, the Gentleman from Kansas | Conversation: Bob Dole, the Gentleman from Kansas
Before gaining political prominence, the retired United States Senator fought with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II.
ROBERT J. DOLE rose to fame during a decades-long career in state and national politics that included 35 years in Congress, campaigns for t... |
96c64d64f749fe3c50ef03f337712be4 | https://articles.historynet.com/conversation-dick-cole.htm | Conversation with Dick Cole, the Last of the Doolittle Raiders | Conversation with Dick Cole, the Last of the Doolittle Raiders
AFTER HE SPENT those 30 seconds over Tokyo that made him world famous, Richard Cole—Colonel Jimmy Doolittle’s copilot on the innovative April 18, 1942, raid against the Japanese capital—parachuted into China. With help he reached India where, for the ... |
4c445e3573c7ca8dffc2c02f0ab01931 | https://articles.historynet.com/conversation-pete-hamill.htm | Conversation with Pete Hamill | Conversation with Pete Hamill
Two Legendary Journalists, a Generation Apart, on the Art of War Reporting Pete Hamill was born to Irish immigrants in Brooklyn in 1935, the oldest of seven children. At age six teen he left school for the Brooklyn Navy Yard and sheet-metal work. Then he joined the navy, finished high scho... |
6574e84981e4535294f3da8f6e66a41e | https://articles.historynet.com/cornwallis-yorktown-india-redemption.htm | Cornwallis: From Yorktown to India — and Redemption | Cornwallis: From Yorktown to India — and Redemption
In America, General Cornwallis lost the Yorktown battle. In India, he won acclaim as a military and political leader.
IN JANUARY 1782, General Charles, 2nd Earl Cornwallis returned to England as a prisoner of war on parole. George Washington and his French allies had ... |
edfdb692b916d4676f66a42245f18486 | https://articles.historynet.com/cwt-book-review-general-ulysses-s-grant-the-soldier-and-the-man.htm | CWT Book Review: General Ulysses S. Grant- The Soldier and the Man | CWT Book Review: General Ulysses S. Grant- The Soldier and the Man
General Ulysses S. Grant: The Soldier and the Man
By Edward Longacre, Da Capo Press, 2006, 384 pages, $26.
On the eve of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant was a failure at almost everything he had tried. After resigning from the Army under murky circumsta... |
db7c6b7def21a136daa57a439a376c35 | https://articles.historynet.com/cwt-letters-from-the-readers-june-2006.htm | CWT Letters from the Readers- June 2006 | CWT Letters from the Readers- June 2006
Dred Scott Opinions The article “The Lawsuit That Started the Civil War,†by Gregory J. Wallance in the March/April issue, was of great interest. However, he omitted an important fact— Harriet Robinson was a free woman before her husband’s case ever came before a court. ... |
002a3ecaea5cfc39734cb1822fae51b1 | https://articles.historynet.com/d-c-disaster-the-curse-of-fords-theatre.htm | Disaster in D.C.: The Curse of Ford’s Theatre | Disaster in D.C.: The Curse of Ford’s Theatre
Almost 30 years after Lincoln’s assassination, another catastrophe strikes playhouse building
ON FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1893, hundreds of Records and Pension Division clerks, some of them Civil War veterans, filed into their jury-rigged offices in the old Ford’s Theatre in Washing... |
99141aa9081fba902f4d46867e1fd270 | https://articles.historynet.com/dak-in-africa.htm | Video: Nazi Germany’s Africa Corps (DAK) Running Field Missions | Video: Nazi Germany’s Africa Corps (DAK) Running Field Missions
(Img: National Archives) DAK, short for Deutsches Afrikakorps or German Africa Corps, was an Axis military force led by General Field Marshall Erwin Rommel that operated in Northern Africa during World War II.
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1c7dd3261f39bca08fbf25402fc36f58 | https://articles.historynet.com/damned-hunchbacks.htm | Damned Hunchbacks: Italy’s Forgotten Torpedo Bomber | Damned Hunchbacks: Italy’s Forgotten Torpedo Bomber
Developed from an airliner, the SM.79 trimotor torpedo bomber emerged as Italy’s most important attack aircraft in the Mediterranean.
As the struggle between Allied and Axis forces for control of the Mediterranean Sea reached its climax in August 1942, the British Roy... |
000cd5ac67ab57f83012c22235e89fd7 | https://www.historynet.com/10-questions-playing-hancock.htm | 10 Questions: Playing Hancock | 10 Questions: Playing Hancock
For Actor Brian Mallon, the landmark film on the war’s bloodiest battle still holds up 25 years later
The Civil War community was introduced to Brian Mallon as Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock in the 1993 film Gettysburg and its 2003 successor Gods and Generals, both directed by Ronald F. ... |
5a81d42a5ebea3237967eb1b2ebe55bd | https://www.historynet.com/12-pounder-napoleon-a-french-cannon-in-the-civil-service.htm | 12-Pounder Napoléon: A French Cannon in the ‘Civil’ Service | 12-Pounder Napoléon: A French Cannon in the ‘Civil’ Service
Union gun crews were first to employ the 12-pounder Napoleon, but the Confederates soon replicated its versatile design for their own use. (Illustration by Gregory Proch)
In 1853 France, for neither the first nor last time, revolutionized artillery with the in... |
339b3fd4c1c088d6d53ebf2c2fccd64b | https://www.historynet.com/13703647.htm | The Rise of North Vietnam’s Air Defenses | The Rise of North Vietnam’s Air Defenses
On Aug. 5, 1964, U.S. Navy aircraft struck four North Vietnamese torpedo boat bases and the fuel depot at Vinh, about 160 miles south of Hanoi. Two of the 64 aircraft were lost to anti-aircraft fire. Launched in retaliation for a torpedo boat attack on a U.S. destroyer in the Gu... |
6f48e0bb54c3cc0a1133863d82d69572 | https://www.historynet.com/13703669.htm | Walt Sides Talks With Vietnam Magazine | Walt Sides Talks With Vietnam Magazine
In 1973, when the first prisoners of war were freed by North Vietnam and returned to the United States, many veterans believed that the actual number of POWs was much higher. One of those veterans was Walt Sides, a gold medal marksman in Marine Corps competition who served two tou... |
2eb971035126fe6fc8d3a737f3b199e4 | https://www.historynet.com/13748217.htm | A Child Soldier in the Lebanese Civil War | A Child Soldier in the Lebanese Civil War
Yussef Bazzi was just 15 years old when he joined one of the militia groups fighting in the Lebanese Civil War.
Yussef Bazzi was born in Beirut in 1966. As a young teenager Bazzi joined one of the militia groups fighting in the Lebanese Civil War, which began with sectarian vio... |
5b09d4509699544e007f29f803715b59 | https://www.historynet.com/1861-french-conquest-of-saigon-battle-of-the-ky-hoa-forts.htm | 1861 French Conquest of Saigon: Battle of the Ky Hoa Forts | 1861 French Conquest of Saigon: Battle of the Ky Hoa Forts
On August 31, 1858, Vice Admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly, commander of French forces in the Far East, sailed into the Bay of Tourane with 14 ships of France’s China Seas Naval Division. Tourane (known today as Da Nang) was the principal trading port on Vie... |
66251bc422ff807b1d6f44bbf158f071 | https://www.historynet.com/1937-labor-board-case-upheld-workers-right-to-organize.htm/the-hughes-court-1937-1938 | The Hughes Court, 1937-1938 | The Hughes Court, 1937-1938
The justices of the Supreme Court. Sitting, from left to right, Justices Sutherland and McReynolds, Chief Justice Hughes, Justices Brandeis and Butler. Standing, left to right, Justices Cardozo, Stone, Roberts, and Black.
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d46723afd27ef5d2577001abc4cea533 | https://www.historynet.com/1965-voting-rights-act-gallery.htm | 1965 Voting Rights Act Gallery | 1965 Voting Rights Act Gallery
On August 6th, 1965 President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, claiming, “The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice.” Vicious attacks on voting rights activists throughout the South pushed Congress to pass the act, which ... |
97cf64286dffd2930e829de4a368b130 | https://www.historynet.com/3rd-battalion-26th-marines-fight-with-the-nva-324b-division-in-september-1967-during-the-vietnam-war.htm | 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines Fight With the NVA 324B Division in September 1967 During the Vietnam War | 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines Fight With the NVA 324B Division in September 1967 During the Vietnam War
Captain Matt Caulfield’s understrength company labored through the brush and scrub growth of an abandoned rice paddy toward its objective, a low ridgeline 200 to 300 meters away. Corporal Mike Norcross’ squad had the p... |
c7780832fd2ff484bfe3f123f2665b30 | https://www.historynet.com/6-questions-author-paul-bogdanor.htm | 6 Questions | Author Paul Bogdanor | 6 Questions | Author Paul Bogdanor
PAUL BOGDANOR is an author and researcher based in Britain. His latest book, Kasztner’s Crime, tells the story of how hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were deported to their deaths during the Holocaust while the head of the “rescue operation” in Budapest collaborated with the N... |
2652479ec79c3522b47b58dd04d22d03 | https://www.historynet.com/a-combat-brotherhood-that-makes-a-difference-military-order-of-the-purple-heart.htm | A Combat Brotherhood That Makes a Difference – Military Order of the Purple Heart | A Combat Brotherhood That Makes a Difference – Military Order of the Purple Heart
Wounded Veterans Continue to Serve Comrades and Country in the Military Order of the Purple Heart
You can order copies of the Vietnam June 2013 issue, with Rolling Thunder Official Guide included: http://historynetshop.com/vnrt13.html
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46e7e13f360bdafd37bd476edda43b86 | https://www.historynet.com/a-few-americans-in-the-battle-of-britain.htm | A Few Americans in the Battle of Britain | A Few Americans in the Battle of Britain
In the summer of 1940 the Second World War had been under way for nearly a year. Hitler’s Germany was triumphant. The United States was neutral. It was a time, Winston Churchill later observed, when “the British people held the fort alone till those who hitherto had been half bl... |
5279f7b46f10a35eafb5ca97cc2a0167 | https://www.historynet.com/a-german-jew-in-the-u-s-army-confronts-dachau.htm | A German Jew in the U.S. Army Confronts Dachau | A German Jew in the U.S. Army Confronts Dachau
In the middle of April 1945, First Lieutenant Fritz Schnaittacher, an intelligence officer with the U.S. Seventh Army in Germany, was guarding a German POW. The man begged to be released so he could return to his wife in the nearby village of Forth. “Who is your wife?” Sch... |
e915cb41d5d77ecc5deb5b5b4ac39133 | https://www.historynet.com/a-happy-hero-sir-adrian-carton-de-wiart.htm | A Happy Hero: Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart | A Happy Hero: Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart
In many respects Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart’s military escapades played out like fiction. With action in three major wars, numerous battle in- juries and multiple plane crashes on the one-eyed, one-handed war hero’s service record, it seems that receiving a Victoria Cross was bu... |
cbf1b38b014eb515a4400eb28713c41a | https://www.historynet.com/a-kamikaze-pilots-complicated-legacy.htm | A Kamikaze Pilot’s Complicated Legacy | A Kamikaze Pilot’s Complicated Legacy
In the 2013 film The Eternal Zero, Japanese siblings ponder their late grandfather’s life—and his mysterious death.
IN THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA in spring 1945, 24 American soldiers, sailors, and Marines were awarded the Medal of Honor for valor above and beyond the call of duty. Thirt... |
63fd82942bb7880acd0b3ca098a37296 | https://www.historynet.com/a-kamikaze-who-lived-to-tell-the-tale.htm | A Kamikaze Who Lived to Tell the Tale | A Kamikaze Who Lived to Tell the Tale
A few years ago, when I was making a BBC TV documentary series about the Japanese and World War II, I mentioned to a colleague that I was leaving for Tokyo in order to meet a kamikaze pilot. “Are you crazy?” he said. “How can you meet a kamikaze pilot? These guys all killed themsel... |
6668b52240c6b4099b79d0ca2dd4070c | https://www.historynet.com/a-look-at-john-wilkes-booths-escape-route-after-assassinating-lincoln.htm | A Look at John Wilkes Booth’s Escape Route After Assassinating Lincoln | A Look at John Wilkes Booth’s Escape Route After Assassinating Lincoln
Follow in the tracks of John Wilkes Booth’s desperate flee for freedom for a captivating adventure
“Sic semper tyrannis.” The words roared over the heads of the hushed crowd at Ford’s Theatre. It was April 14, 1865, and Abraham Lincoln had just been... |
46e7c0a51abc3ee7718cf2f8a4943fd7 | https://www.historynet.com/a-short-history-of-the-filibuster.htm | A Short History of the Filibuster | A Short History of the Filibuster
Filibusters tend to be more infuriating than inspirational.
After talking non-stop for 10 hours and 35 minutes, Huey Long informed his fellow senators that he wasn’t a bit tired. “I would just as soon stay here and go ten more hours,” he said. “I am in hog heaven here discussing this t... |
08ed1d5a812e3423a04f80cb6e3700d0 | https://www.historynet.com/a-time-to-kill.htm | A Time to Kill | A Time to Kill
Fearing the apocalypse was near, Thomas of Marle and the knights of the First Crusade unleashed holy hell on Jerusalem.
The climactic battle of the First Crusade ended with the victors bathing in the blood of the vanquished. On July 15, 1 of Jerusalem, the site of Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection an... |
a5fd5a2ad87350254d4be81b32883647 | https://www.historynet.com/abandoning-vietnam-how-america-left-and-south-vietnam-lost-its-war-book-review.htm | Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War (Book Review) | Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War (Book Review)
Reviewed by Earl Tilford By James H. Willbanks University of Kansas Press, Manhattan, Kan., 2004
Arguably the Vietnam War was lost at the Tet Offensive in February and March 1968. James H. Willbanks, a professor in the Combat Studies Inst... |
9ceb56dfb9f069a7fd791895e31af53b | https://www.historynet.com/abraham-lincoln-and-walt-whitman-wars-kindred-spirits.htm | Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman: War’s Kindred Spirits | Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman: War’s Kindred Spirits
The last night of the year 1862 had been a restless one for the president. He went to bed after 12 and rose before dawn. At midnight all around the crowded city soldiers and civilians fired their guns over the grave of the departed year. The New Year was welcomed ... |
0724967c8db491973fae7c5f7f6d52aa | https://www.historynet.com/abraham-lincoln-greets-general-mrs-tom-thumb.htm | Abraham Lincoln Greets General and Mrs. Tom Thumb | Abraham Lincoln Greets General and Mrs. Tom Thumb
It was America’s first full-blown celebrity wedding, choreographed, publicized and staged by P.T. Barnum, the genius of hype, and it came in the depths of the Civil War, when Americans were eager for a moment of joyous distraction.
The groom was Charles Stratton, 25, th... |
4fb50995a6c8e8af4b141246c1fd66ab | https://www.historynet.com/abraham-lincoln-prepares-to-fight-a-saber-duel.htm | Abraham Lincoln Prepares to Fight a Saber Duel | Abraham Lincoln Prepares to Fight a Saber Duel
It was a grim errand that sent Abraham Lincoln hurrying toward Alton, Illinois, early on the morning of September 22, 1842. At Alton, he would cross the Mississippi River to a small island over the Missouri border-Bloody Island. There, he would prepare himself to kill or b... |
5bb35f88289ba8c9f93d09b9964928d4 | https://www.historynet.com/abraham-lincoln-takes-the-heat.htm | Abraham Lincoln Takes the Heat | Abraham Lincoln Takes the Heat
It now seems a distant memory, but in October 1998 a situation comedy set in the Civil War White House premiered on national television and promptly ignited a firestorm of outrage. The Secret Life of Desmond Pfeiffer offended just about everyone: critics, for what one called ‘jaw dropping... |
a74914ce15785ca323d9982d082954f2 | https://www.historynet.com/abrams-westmoreland.htm | Media Digest | Abrams not much different from Westmoreland? | Media Digest | Abrams not much different from Westmoreland?
Modest in number yet extraordinarily influential, proponents of the “better war” narrative maintain that Gen. Creighton Abrams, who became the top commander of U.S. forces in South Vietnam in June 1968, jettisoned the failing strategy of his predecessor, Gen. ... |
bc4c0b89a48a3411e9663941e0e9f6be | https://www.historynet.com/acw-book-review-one-continuous-fight.htm | ACW Book Review: One Continuous Fight | ACW Book Review: One Continuous Fight
One Continuous Fight: The Retreat From Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863
by Eric Wittenberg, J. David Petruzzi and Michael F. Nugent, Savas Beatie, 2008, $34.95
There is absolutely no shortage of book-length treatments of Gettys burg, no... |
8087c666f1b752f26abd21c214455f57 | https://www.historynet.com/acw-book-review-vindicating-lincoln.htm | ACW Book Review: Vindicating Lincoln | ACW Book Review: Vindicating Lincoln
Vindicating Lincoln
by Thomas L. Krannawitter, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, $24.95
Although he is universally acknowledged as America’s greatest president—perhaps even its greatest icon— Abraham Lincoln generates just as much disagreement and resentment as reverence. Yes, he freed th... |
c6f109f41a54a832adfa446f8ef8bc72 | https://www.historynet.com/adah-menken-aka-the-naked-lady-the-original-superstar.htm | Adah Menken, aka ‘The Naked Lady’: The Original Superstar | Adah Menken, aka ‘The Naked Lady’: The Original Superstar
Adah Menken begins her sensational roles on the mid-19th century stage. A poor girl from New Orleans, she rose to be a superstar.
John Smith, who managed Albany’s Green Street Theater, titled himself captain though the only campaign he ever fought was in publici... |
15c2f12aeb95676e34f3ebb83be8149c | https://www.historynet.com/admiral-raymond-a-spruance-modest-victor-of-midway.htm | Admiral Raymond A. Spruance: Modest Victor of Midway | Admiral Raymond A. Spruance: Modest Victor of Midway
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz called him ‘a fine man, a sterling character, and a great leader, and said, nothing you can say about him would be praise enough. Admiral William L. Calhoun saw him as a cold-blooded fighting fool. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison believed he ... |
e7187d32d85ca603dd04acd43bdbb703 | https://www.historynet.com/adrianople-last-great-battle-of-antiquity.htm | Adrianople: Last Great Battle of Antiquity | Adrianople: Last Great Battle of Antiquity
The annals of the later Roman empire are scarred by events that took place near the Thracian city of Adrianople on the afternoon of August 9, ad 378. By that evening, the eastern Roman Emperor Valens was dead along with tens of thousands of irreplaceable warriors, in a defeat ... |
65009e255853391dbea8989945868591 | https://www.historynet.com/adrianople.htm | Goths vs. Romans: Lessons from the Battle of Adrianople | Goths vs. Romans: Lessons from the Battle of Adrianople
In 378 Goth cavalry stormed a Roman force at Adrianople (present-day Edirne, Turkey). According to 4th century Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus, the Goths inflicted “enormous losses” on the legionaries, moving St. Ambrose, archbishop of Milan, to bemoan “the e... |
867d310a7a4182ee6deaf847813e0f61 | https://www.historynet.com/african-american-infantrymen-in-americas-west.htm | African American Infantrymen in America’s West | African American Infantrymen in America’s West
In the wake of the Civil War, the West offered perceived opportunities for nearly every element of society. So it was that some black Americans banded together in groups of ‘exodusters,’ who crossed the Mississippi River bent on establishing a new society in Kansas. Other ... |
02ef5221e530ef7810f355f2db693302 | https://www.historynet.com/after-years-of-delay-masters-of-the-air-has-finally-started-production.htm | After Years of Delay, ‘Masters of the Air’ Has Finally Started Production | After Years of Delay, ‘Masters of the Air’ Has Finally Started Production
WWII aficionados around the world are letting out a gasp of excitement. “Masters of the Air,” the third installment of the trilogy that includes “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific,” has officially begun filming, according to an Instagram post fr... |
3ab0dfb2acd4726e76b62beb68937c66 | https://www.historynet.com/aftermath-doolittle-raid-reexamined.htm | Aftermath: How the Doolittle Raid Shook Japan | Aftermath: How the Doolittle Raid Shook Japan
The Doolittle attack generated more, and more violent, ripples than once thought.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL JIMMY DOOLITTLE at the controls of a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber, zoomed low over northern Tokyo at midday on Saturday, April 18, 1942. He could see the high-rises crowding ... |
bf858c2fe8f50dda166d5072cdbc7d6c | https://www.historynet.com/air-force-colonel-jacksel-jack-broughton-air-force-general-john-d-jack-lavelle-testing-the-rules-of-engagement-during-the-vietnam-war.htm | Air Force Colonel Jacksel ‘Jack’ Broughton & Air Force General John D. ‘Jack’ Lavelle: Testing the Rules of Engagement During the Vietnam War | Air Force Colonel Jacksel ‘Jack’ Broughton & Air Force General John D. ‘Jack’ Lavelle: Testing the Rules of Engagement During the Vietnam War
The war in Vietnam was a strange war, indeed. It was a conflict that should not have been lost. But the men who ran that war were politicians and bureaucrats, not military profes... |
9b63d516532d01bf6db69d552e1cff7c | https://www.historynet.com/air-force-pilot-flies-navy.htm | An Air Force Pilot Flies Navy | An Air Force Pilot Flies Navy
Ron Williams remembers his temporary duty assignment flying Douglas A-3B “Whales” from a carrier as the most challenging two years of his career
In 1964 U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Captain Ron Williams was selected for a prestigious two-year U.S. Navy exchange assignment with Heavy Attack... |
3e85ccacfe8a3ea27b14366d8eb40c2c | https://www.historynet.com/airfix-hawker-hurricane-mk-i.htm | Airfix Hawker Hurricane Mk.I | Airfix Hawker Hurricane Mk.I
The perennial pickup truck (or should that be “lorry”?) compared to the sports car fighter (the Supermarine Spitfire), the Hawker Hurricane performed much of the heavy lifting during the Battle of Britain. Despite its beefy look and thick wing, the fighter was actually nimble enough to turn... |
f7b373f375ffd166735a4aa42fd07fe7 | https://www.historynet.com/airmail-service-it-began-with-army-air-service-pilots.htm | Airmail Service: It Began with Army Air Service Pilots | Airmail Service: It Began with Army Air Service Pilots
The development of airmail began long before the invention of the airplane, the dirigible or even the balloon. It began with the pigeon post, which was used by armies many years before the birth of Christ to send messages long distances. Since then, all the man-mad... |
877b747bd960f8f4617094b892709ad0 | https://www.historynet.com/al-pacino-to-star-in-upcoming-film-on-american-traitor-axis-sally.htm | Al Pacino to Star in Upcoming Film on American Traitor ‘Axis Sally’ | Al Pacino to Star in Upcoming Film on American Traitor ‘Axis Sally’
In his first film since starring in The Irishman in 2019, Al Pacino is now taking on the role of James Laughlin, the lawyer who defended Mildred Gillars, played by Meadow Williams, from charges of treason during World War II.
First reported by Deadline... |
59318e9818cd9e98cf3a3d5e37a359d1 | https://www.historynet.com/alaska-highway-the-biggest-and-hardest-job-since-the-panama-canal.htm | Alaska Highway: The Biggest and Hardest Job Since the Panama Canal | Alaska Highway: The Biggest and Hardest Job Since the Panama Canal
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers A bulldozer of the 340th Engineers, Northern Sector, meets the lead clearing dozer of the 35th Engineers, Southern Sector, near Watson Lake, Yukon Territory to complete the linking of the sectors and provide a road from ... |
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