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5f16657ba46e09275ffbbb1e4fe7f526 | https://www.historynet.com/iar-80-romanias-indigenous-fighter-plane.htm | IAR 80: Romania’s Indigenous Fighter Plane | IAR 80: Romania’s Indigenous Fighter Plane
The Romanian aircraft industry was created in the early 1920s because that country’s government did not want to rely on other nations to provide its aircraft and components. The delivery of foreign aircraft and parts was subject to the winds of political turmoil and often dela... |
c7932ca88602d4b3f3cb57bcbc0bae20 | https://www.historynet.com/in-alsace-peaceful-vineyards-belie-a-traumatic-past.htm | In Alsace, Peaceful Vineyards Belie a Traumatic Past | In Alsace, Peaceful Vineyards Belie a Traumatic Past
On a bitterly cold January dawn in 1945, the residents of a tranquil, picturesque area on the eastern border of France woke to the sound of artillery.
Unbeknownst to them, the Germans had chosen their region of fairy-tale villages and rolling green vineyards—Alsace—a... |
c50d8360439c7067e6beb51267b63cc0 | https://www.historynet.com/in-the-confederacys-last-days-two-texans-face-off-in-futile-feud.htm | In the Confederacy’s Last Days, Two Texans Face Off in Futile Feud | In the Confederacy’s Last Days, Two Texans Face Off in Futile Feud
Confederate officers’ wounded pride leads to fury, insults, and senseless murder
On April 6, 1865, the Confederacy was in its death throes. Robert E. Lee’s defeat at the Battle of Sailor’s Creek, Va., had all but ended the fighting in the Eastern Theate... |
c4d035ceeec8f7612ea74ace7c7ce823 | https://www.historynet.com/insidious-inspiration-how-jim-crow-inspired-the-nazis.htm | Insidious Inspiration: How Jim Crow Inspired the Nazis | Insidious Inspiration: How Jim Crow Inspired the Nazis
American laws barring interracial sex and marriage were model for the anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
INTERVIEW
James Whitman is a historian and professor at Yale Law School. His 2017 book, Hitler’s American Model, explores how racist legislation enacted by the United S... |
01cb096142b993393b4270e2ad5374fd | https://www.historynet.com/insight-gary-gallagher-war-west.htm | Insight: Gary Gallagher on the War in the West | Insight: Gary Gallagher on the War in the West
To read Gary Gallagher’s columns about the Civil War in the West that have appeared in Civil War Times magazine, follow the links below:
Bold Rebel Venture in the Desert
Insight: A Conflict Apart
Out West
Insight: Army in the Shadows
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7a037f23fa0dc78099c1b580f9d45f9b | https://www.historynet.com/intercepted-communications-for-field-marshal-erwin-rommel.htm | Intercepted Communications for Field Marshal Erwin Rommel | Intercepted Communications for Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
During the 1941-1942 tug of war for North Africa, the British benefited from radio-intercept-derived Ultra information. Despite that Allied advantage, however, for six months and 11 days the Germans enjoyed an even speedier, more across-the-board intelligence so... |
12e844e3d3563b7483af9ff99ed566e0 | https://www.historynet.com/interview-30-years-above-and-beneath-the-sea.htm | Interview: 30 Years Above and Beneath the Sea | Interview: 30 Years Above and Beneath the Sea
Captain Kenneth Ruiz calls surviving three wars just ‘the luck of the draw.’
On August 8, 1942, newly commissioned Ensign Kenneth Ruiz drew cards with a fellow officer to determine who would have the privilege of manning a battle station on the captain’s bridge of the U.S. ... |
aff317f5562aa89e637ea5094a211188 | https://www.historynet.com/interview-adviser-takes-command.htm | Interview: An Adviser Takes Command | Interview: An Adviser Takes Command
During the fight for Landing Zone Pat in August 1967, Colonel Raymond Bluhm’s company earned the Valorous Unit Citation.
Raymond K. Bluhm Jr. extended his tour of duty in Vietnam once, and would have done so again if not for a very close call in 1967. Four decades later, as a retired... |
8ccc283cd07d61491d22b65a0a4799a6 | https://www.historynet.com/interview-allen-guelzo-reconstructions-lost-cause.htm | Interview with Allen Guelzo: Reconstruction’s Lost Cause | Interview with Allen Guelzo: Reconstruction’s Lost Cause
(Courtesy of Allen Guelzo)
Allen Guelzo, Director of the Civil War Era Studies Program at Gettysburg College (allenguelzo.com), is the author of six Civil War histories and his most recent book, Reconstruction: A Concise History, details the problems afflicting t... |
107158d42effea2a18da81b357c2b446 | https://www.historynet.com/interview-author-dorothy-love.htm | Interview: Author Dorothy Love | Interview: Author Dorothy Love
In this interview, HistoryNet reporter Rebecca Miller interviews historical author Dorothy Love. Love is an award-winning writer known for her ability to bring historical color and refinement to historical fiction. Her latest novel, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray, illuminates the remarkable frien... |
4e61162a31dc4c30b44502512762043d | https://www.historynet.com/interview-belgian-volunteer-in-the-waffen-ss.htm | Interview: Belgian Volunteer in the Waffen SS | Interview: Belgian Volunteer in the Waffen SS
Léon Degrelle was willing to put his convictions on the line on the Russian Front. Of the many European Fascist leaders who collaborated with the German forces that occupied their countries during World War II, Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle was unique in that he put h... |
0d2d81277fab384f8be7900f70b3a506 | https://www.historynet.com/interview-edward-l-ayers-civil-war-historian.htm | Interview with Edward L. Ayers, Civil War Historian | Interview with Edward L. Ayers, Civil War Historian
Edward L. Ayers, the president of the University of Richmond, has written 10 books about the Civil War, the South and American history. He also co-hosts the public radio program Backstory. Ayers advocates linking commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War... |
454c08a59dd7dd608e551c2b95c3cedd | https://www.historynet.com/interview-joseph-mcgill-uneasy-nights-sleep.htm | Interview With Joseph McGill: An Uneasy Night’s Sleep | Interview With Joseph McGill: An Uneasy Night’s Sleep
Joseph McGill began sleeping in slave cabins in 2010 while working for the National Trust for Historic Preservation to draw attention to endangered buildings, and his efforts have evolved into a platform for dialogue about the consequences of slavery. McGill has ree... |
bae38acee53f264d9df468ba3438f5fc | https://www.historynet.com/interview-one-tough-screaming-eagle.htm | Interview: One Tough Screaming Eagle | Interview: One Tough Screaming Eagle
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 Forest of Belgium. On Adolf Hitler’s orders, the Germ... |
eb7fe22f3a44340feabf56c3719a38cb | https://www.historynet.com/interview-polish-home-army-fighter.htm | Interview: Polish Home Army Fighter | Interview: Polish Home Army Fighter
In World War II Jerzy Krzyzanowski resisted the Nazi occupation, only to be arrested by the Soviets.
Germany invaded and quickly defeated Poland in 1939, but Polish units—including the clandestine or Home Army—continued to fight until Armija Krajowa (AK), Germany’s defeat in 1945. Wh... |
73bebd60f0a4a3b69aab2c477edd71a9 | https://www.historynet.com/interview-ronald-spector-reshaping-postwar-asia.htm | Interview with Ronald Spector: On Reshaping Postwar Asia | Interview with Ronald Spector: On Reshaping Postwar Asia
In a new book, author and historian Ronald H. Spector (author of the 1985 classic In the Ruins of Empire Eagle , Against the Sun: The American War with Japan) focuses on a blind spot in military history: the bitter, multifaceted struggles that broke out when the ... |
d305fa996de8c4ee61b32f73319ab629 | https://www.historynet.com/interview-rupert-smith-cant-win-war-terror.htm | Interview with Rupert Smith: Why we can’t win a ‘war on terror’ | Interview with Rupert Smith: Why we can’t win a ‘war on terror’
General Sir Rupert Smith’s new book The Utility of Force draws upon his command and combat experiences and broad understanding of military history. Smith spent 40 years in the British army, serving as a commander during the 1991 Gulf War and in Bosnia and ... |
da549e70e7c839c53510c08a2f25e20f | https://www.historynet.com/interview-shot-down-in-the-night.htm | Interview: Shot Down in the Night | Interview: Shot Down in the Night
Kevin Patrick Muncer flew nocturnal bombing missions in Avro Lancasters until a Junkers Ju-88G made him a German prisoner.
Born in London and raised in Kent, Kevin Patrick Muncer was working as an analytical chemist when World War II broke out on September 1, 1939. On September 11, he ... |
8606157b18b7d23fcc338e97a90a2d1f | https://www.historynet.com/interview-steven-hahn.htm | Interview with Steven Hahn | Interview with Steven Hahn
Steven Hahn contends that blacks played a more active role in bringing an end to slavery than historians generally recognize. Indeed, in his latest book, The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom, he characterizes the Civil War as “the greatest slave rebellion in modern history.” He argues ... |
00b91ea7058531ef9a245523c65c7136 | https://www.historynet.com/interview-u-boat-survivors-story.htm | Interview: U-Boat Survivor’s Story | Interview: U-Boat Survivor’s Story
German submariner Peter Petersen survived three patrols aboard U-518. He missed the fourth—during which it was lost with all hands.
The tide of war turned in the Atlantic Ocean during the summer of 1943. For three years, Germany’s ping as the hunters. Now the U-boats and their crews b... |
7785a698fb93523e6636f8bb8157f5c9 | https://www.historynet.com/interview-with-sergeant-terry-buckler-about-the-son-tay-prison-camp-raid-during-the-vietnam-war.htm/2 | Interview with Sergeant Terry Buckler About the Son Tay Prison Camp Raid During the Vietnam War | Interview with Sergeant Terry Buckler About the Son Tay Prison Camp Raid During the Vietnam War
On November 21, 1970, at the U.S. Air Force base at Udorn, Thailand, helicopters carrying U.S Army Special Forces personnel took off into the inky blackness of the night sky. Those aboard had been training secretly for month... |
abb305c33a478d24e15072ddd7d23e58 | https://www.historynet.com/iron-will-scrapping-history.htm | Iron Will: Scrapping History | Iron Will: Scrapping History
Americans at times went too far in their nearly unstoppable drive to collect scrap metal for the war effort.
Every store, farm, and business in Comanche County shut down for the day on Friday, August 28, 1942. This was no traditional holiday for the people in this southwestern Kansas county... |
f07e914961fc7cdcf5f694b42703c20a | https://www.historynet.com/is-it-mosby.htm | Is It Mosby | Is It Mosby
Reader James T. Johnson bought this image at a Gettysburg antique shop in 2010. He believes it is a previously unknown image of John S. Mosby. What do you think?
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0c390dce66b7c19c4ecae70880f3b45a | https://www.historynet.com/italys-african-eagle.htm | Italy’s African Eagle | Italy’s African Eagle
During World War I at least five black airmen overcame both the technological challenges of early aviation and the prejudice of peers to enter various wartime air arms. On Nov. 11, 1916, Ottoman navy 1st Lt. Ahmet Ali Celikten, the grandson of a Nigerian Yoruba slave, qualified to fly reconnaissan... |
dbd4244f090ec10033a5efdc4b26b8fb | https://www.historynet.com/james-fenelon-four-hours-of-fury.htm | James Fenelon: Four Hours of Fury | James Fenelon: Four Hours of Fury
James Fenelon (Randy Glass Studio)
By March 1945 the Allies were closing in around Germany, but the 400-yard-wide Rhine River remained a significant natural obstacle to their progress. Although Americans had crossed the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, the main Allied thrust would be led ... |
6912c05749efe278ae88ef0136b49aee | https://www.historynet.com/james-garfields-greatest-fear-credit-mobilier-corruption-scandal.htm | James Garfield’s Greatest Fear: Being Stained by the Credit Mobilier Corruption Scandal | James Garfield’s Greatest Fear: Being Stained by the Credit Mobilier Corruption Scandal
The ambitious Ohio Republican dreaded being caught up with congressmen in complicated railroad scheme
Wracked with dread on a wintry Tuesday evening in 1873, U.S. Representative James A. Garfield retreated to the pages of his diary.... |
2cb003095cf8d430afe5ff8d928207b1 | https://www.historynet.com/james-marshall-californias-gold-discoverer.htm | James Marshall: California’s Gold Discoverer | James Marshall: California’s Gold Discoverer
If luck were a critical factor in the discovery of gold that initiated the California Gold Rush, probably the unluckiest man of that period was no other than the original discoverer himself, James Wilson Marshall. Few people know about Marshall’s ironically tragic life after... |
a8c7fa6b7ce9b0f88de76b87d62b1010 | https://www.historynet.com/january-2020-readers-letters.htm | January 2020 Readers’ Letters | January 2020 Readers’ Letters
On the Bottle I noticed on P. 24 of the September 2019 issue of Military History (“Medusa’s Curse,” by Bob Gordon) that on the Canadians’ vehicle antennae there appear to be plastic bottles taped on upside down [see above]. Can you advise what is the purpose of this attachment?
Bruce Baker... |
0a1646c449ec94ba35fbabafc1d9bd1e | https://www.historynet.com/japan-hadnt-attacked-pearl-harbor.htm | What if Japan Hadn’t Attacked Pearl Harbor? | What if Japan Hadn’t Attacked Pearl Harbor?
Japan never seriously considered the following scenario—but might have been wise to do so.
On December 15, 1941, naval and air units of the empire of Japan suddenly and deliberately attack the Dutch naval squadron at Batavia in the Netherlands East Indies (present-day Indones... |
38faaa6f18acf66099506ee873a7d9c9 | https://www.historynet.com/japanese-american-linguists-in-army.htm | How Japanese American Linguists helped the U.S. Army fight Japan | How Japanese American Linguists helped the U.S. Army fight Japan
With their loyalty to the U.S. in question, Japanese American soldiers wielded the native language of their parents to save American lives and shorten the Pacific War
On a ridgetop near Nhpum Ga, Burma, the stench of animals rotting in the oppressive jung... |
1338f5bca0a83e055156c289229e4d08 | https://www.historynet.com/japans-fatally-flawed-air-forces-in-world-war-ii-2.htm | Japan’s Fatally Flawed Air Forces in World War II | Japan’s Fatally Flawed Air Forces in World War II
World War II in the Pacific was a fight to seize and defend airfields. The Japanese made gaining and maintaining control of the air as much a requirement in their basic war strategy as they did the destruction of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. But as Commander Masatake Okumiya... |
4c3ff1520d6aca1ea9317dfd49de3aaa | https://www.historynet.com/jeb-stuarts-revenge.htm | J.E.B. Stuart’s Revenge | J.E.B. Stuart’s Revenge
A battlefield was a strange place for the reunion of old friends. The contorted bodies of men who had fallen in combat two days earlier littered the ground around the small group of picnickers who, being soldiers, were able to enjoy their outing despite its macabre setting.
The last time any of ... |
5a55f678e11b2ffc10e5663aac9eabff | https://www.historynet.com/jefferson-davis-commander-chief.htm | Jefferson Davis: Commander In Chief | Jefferson Davis: Commander In Chief
During his presidency, he spent most of his waking hours directing the Confederate war effort.
As president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis was in charge of policy, national strategy, and military strategy and operations during the four and a half years of the C... |
c01e9fface5234e28ccff08f03e98bc7 | https://www.historynet.com/jerrys-last-mission-how-wwiis-last-combat-pilot-became-a-lifelong-testament-of-the-human-spirit.htm | ‘Jerry’s Last Mission’: How a Veteran of WWII’s Last Air Battle Became a Lifelong Testament of the Human Spirit | ‘Jerry’s Last Mission’: How a Veteran of WWII’s Last Air Battle Became a Lifelong Testament of the Human Spirit
“I look out there now and can’t believe we were enemies,” Jerry Yellin muses in the aptly named documentary “Jerry’s Last Mission,” the veteran’s admiring eyes looking out from the window of the train as the ... |
7edd4070b92155c7eb502bc1d0675245 | https://www.historynet.com/jihad-by-sea.htm | Jihad By Sea | Jihad By Sea
At the Battle of the Masts in 655, a fledgling Arab fleet from the Levant crushed the mighty Byzantine navy (Cyclopedia of Universal History, 1885).
Seventh-century Muslim desert warriors built powerful new fleets and set out to conquer Europe – and destroy Christianity
In ad 655 the emperor Constans II co... |
edfa5ad10445df7e5ecf90f122701a44 | https://www.historynet.com/john-byng-the-scapegoating-of-an-admiral.htm | John Byng: The Scapegoating of an Admiral | John Byng: The Scapegoating of an Admiral
In 1756 British admiral John Byng failed “to use all possible means” to stop the French from taking Minorca. He paid for it with his life.
On March 14, 1757, Admiral John Byng was shot by a firing squad of Royal Marines on the quarterdeck of HMS Monarch, then lying at anchor in... |
9f8211cba40459570d876597b273efac | https://www.historynet.com/john-marshall-facilitating-federalist.htm | John Marshall: Facilitating Federalist | John Marshall: Facilitating Federalist
Chief justice’s legacy of landmark decisions is still with us today
AMERICAN HISTORY “Déjà Vu” columnist Richard Brookhiser, left, is a journalist, historian, documentary filmmaker, and author. His latest book, John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court (Basic, 2018) is a b... |
8b0a109ba6e63c90ded741948be6716f | https://www.historynet.com/john-singleton-mosbys-accidental-courage.htm | John Singleton Mosby’s Accidental Courage | John Singleton Mosby’s Accidental Courage
In Loudoun County, Virginia, an old brick gristmill that still straddles a millrace along the Little River Turnpike served as the backdrop for one of John Singleton Mosby’s most breathtaking exploits in March 1863. Even if Civil War students and buffs don’t know much about the ... |
a88691e46411137331f66af86fcb75cf | https://www.historynet.com/john-wilkes-booth-an-oily-character.htm | John Wilkes Booth: An Oily Character | John Wilkes Booth: An Oily Character
CAMEO
Before plotting murder, the actor tried his hand at oil
JOHN WILKES BOOTH at 24 had the charisma of a young Johnny Depp. Graceful, daring, and handsome, with flashing dark eyes, he was the youngest son of a prominent theatrical family. Father Junius Brutus Booth had emigrated ... |
147b0d1c0ca8c55fa99aea2f6b4eeac1 | https://www.historynet.com/johnny-d-boggs-hes-earned-his-spurs.htm | Johnny D. Boggs: He’s Earned His Spurs | Johnny D. Boggs: He’s Earned His Spurs
Western Writers of America (WWA) has chosen Santa Fe–based Johnny D. Boggs as the 2020 recipient of its Owen Wister Award for lifetime contributions to Western literature. His dozens of published books and hundreds of articles, essays, columns and short stories certainly establish... |
53044be5b803d8c547f59fcee88d6300 | https://www.historynet.com/johnson.htm | Tank Driver Braved Flames, Bullets to Save Friends in Vietnam | Tank Driver Braved Flames, Bullets to Save Friends in Vietnam
Dwight Hal Johnson had no dreams of being a hero. In his youth, the large, strapping boy had a fighter’s body but a peaceful spirit. Johnson grew up in the deteriorating Corktown neighborhood of Detroit with his single mother and younger brother. Bullies o... |
c283b747f4bf11865011faaaa4e4bf68 | https://www.historynet.com/jonas-salk-and-the-advent-of-the-polio-vaccine.htm | Jonas Salk and the Advent of the Polio Vaccine | Jonas Salk and the Advent of the Polio Vaccine
“Polio was never the raging epidemic portrayed in the media, not even at its height in the 1940s and 1950s,” David M. Oshinsky writes in Polio: An American Story. Yet at the turn of the 20th century, the public fear of polio reached a fever pitch. The virus struck seemingl... |
2dad629f49f9266c17cc46e865823a72 | https://www.historynet.com/khe-sanh-and-beyond-col-ret-joseph-abodeely-interview.htm | Khe Sanh and Beyond: Col. (ret) Joseph Abodeely Interview | Khe Sanh and Beyond: Col. (ret) Joseph Abodeely Interview
At Col. Joe Abodeely's Base Camp near Maricopa, Arizona, each year the flag of South Vietnam is raised along with the U.S. flag. 'We forget that we went to South Vietnam to help the Vietnamese people,' Abodeely says. Courtesy Base Camp Website.
Retired Army Colo... |
773b690e320d5de0415dca72e89824ae | https://www.historynet.com/killer-instinct-how-one-man-taught-u-s-rangers-to-fight-dirty-in-wwii.htm | Killer Instinct: How One Man Taught U.S. Rangers to Fight Dirty in WWII | Killer Instinct: How One Man Taught U.S. Rangers to Fight Dirty in WWII
Francois d’Eliscu taught thousands of U.S. Army Rangers how to fight down and dirty in World War II.
Lecturing to a group of young U.S. Army Rangers on a field at Fort Meade, Maryland, in May 1942, U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Francois d’Eliscu ord... |
995e075d1834ad64fd935026dc5aa19e | https://www.historynet.com/killing-the-yamato.htm | Killing the Yamato | Killing the Yamato
The air raid sirens were wailing. Ignoring them, Emperor Hirohito seated himself at the conference table in the shelter adjoining the Imperial Library. The sirens had become a fixture of life in Tokyo. Nearly three weeks ago, on the night of March 10, 1945, American B-29s dropped incendiary bombs on ... |
0e8e49a51ebfe12ed70a466829599154 | https://www.historynet.com/korean-comfort-women-japans-world-war-ii-sex-slaves.htm | Korean ‘Comfort Women’: Japan’s World War II Sex Slaves | Korean ‘Comfort Women’: Japan’s World War II Sex Slaves
Four Korean comfort women, one pregnant, pose with a Chinese soldier who apparently helped free them from the Japanese in 1944. (Pvt. Hatfield/U.S. Army/National Archives)
HWANG KEUM-JU, A KOREAN GIRL, was 18 when she was “drafted” by the Japanese to work in a fac... |
4573bf09d1678a7164626ce9c4b3ba1f | https://www.historynet.com/korean-war-forgotten-24th-and-34th-infantry-regiments.htm | Korean War: Forgotten 24th and 34th Infantry Regiments | Korean War: Forgotten 24th and 34th Infantry Regiments
American military history records the feats of many famous commands, such as the ‘Big Red One’ (1st Infantry Division), the 7th Cavalry and the 27th (‘Wolfhound’) Infantry regiments. But accounts of the Korean War scarcely mention the 24th and 34th Infantry regimen... |
aa100b9702815b63f8ab0cb2f166b11f | https://www.historynet.com/korean-war-images.htm | Looking at the Korean War, 70 Years On | Looking at the Korean War, 70 Years On
When North Korea sought to reunify with South Korea by force on June 25, 1950, a small peninsula in East Asia turned into an international hot spot amid the steadily intensifying Cold War. The United Nations Security Council roundly condemned the invasion (while the Soviet Union w... |
8f079ebcd5410a1625f2ee9956720b54 | https://www.historynet.com/kuno-a-british-military-working-dog-awarded-highest-honor-for-service-animals.htm | Kuno, a British Military Working Dog, Awarded Highest Honor for Service Animals | Kuno, a British Military Working Dog, Awarded Highest Honor for Service Animals
Kuno, a British military working dog who risked his life during a night raid in the mountains of Afghanistan, has been awarded the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) Dickin Medal, the highest honor an animal can receive in combat.
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233c1abc3e450877556fa7b688449bd5 | https://www.historynet.com/kurt-tanks-indian-storm.htm | Kurt Tank’s Indian Storm | Kurt Tank’s Indian Storm
India’s HAL HF-24 Marut confounded detractors with its respectable combat record.
The 1971 air war between India and Pakistan was of interest to foreign observers as a testing ground for such diverse Eastern and Western aircraft as the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, Sukhoi Su-7, Lockheed F-104, Mirag... |
76f0a110d4ada895017376b301ac9bb1 | https://www.historynet.com/kyle-carpenter-worth-it.htm | Kyle Carpenter: Worth It | Kyle Carpenter: Worth It
Kyle Carpenter (Illustration by Randy Glass Studio)
Lance Cpl. William Kyle Carpenter doesn’t remember throwing himself between a buddy and a hand grenade on a village rooftop in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province on Nov. 21, 2010. Yet two military forensic teams determined that’s exactly what he d... |
cc464ee9226431edf80405761a9a554d | https://www.historynet.com/lack-of-horses.htm | For the Lack of Horses, the War Was Nearly Lost | For the Lack of Horses, the War Was Nearly Lost
Union cavalry’s fate hung on the health of its four-legged warriors
Quartermaster General Montgomery Meigs had one of the hardest jobs in the Union Army. (Library of Congress)
Brigadier General Montgomery Meigs, quartermaster general of the Union Army, walked into his off... |
3e595b4ee16a805263335b69d34fe106 | https://www.historynet.com/ladies-from-hell-bagpipers-led-the-charge-during-wwi.htm | ‘Ladies from Hell’: Bagpipers Led the Charge During WWI | ‘Ladies from Hell’: Bagpipers Led the Charge During WWI
Over the top and amid the carnage and confusion of No Man’s Land stepped Highland regimental bagpipers. Screaming out “the Charge” it was “the most awful music to be heard by men who have the Highlanders against them, and with fixed bayonets and hand-grenades they... |
3a0d7ae5cfefe728bc7b390bdbe899f9 | https://www.historynet.com/largest-wwii-era-bomb-found-in-poland-explodes-during-attempt-to-diffuse-it.htm | Largest WWII-Era Bomb Found in Poland Explodes During Attempt to Diffuse it | Largest WWII-Era Bomb Found in Poland Explodes During Attempt to Diffuse it
On October 13 the largest WWII bomb ever found in Poland, a “Tallboy” weighing more than five tons, accidentally exploded while demolition experts attempted to deflagrate the bomb—a process which burns the explosive charge without causing a det... |
bb95ffacb9f7813ca557b1eab1100f40 | https://www.historynet.com/lashing-back-israel-1947-1948-civil-war.htm | Lashing Back – Israel’s 1947-1948 Civil War | Lashing Back – Israel’s 1947-1948 Civil War
GUNS UP: Members of Haganah celebrate breaking the Arab forces’ blockade of Jerusalem, a success in April 1948 that helped to swiftly shift the momentum of the civil war toward Jewish forces. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Israel has fought and won three major wars in its 61-ye... |
b290c01ca6cc7eb33ba64df0e34b3271 | https://www.historynet.com/last-air-battles-of-world-war-ii.htm | Last Air Battles of World War II | Last Air Battles of World War II
Confusion reigned 75 years ago when Japan announced its surrender but pilots on both sides kept fighting.
World War II was a global conflagration that transcended geography and time itself—a fact best illustrated on the day the shooting stopped. In the Western Pacific on August 14, 1945... |
4668ed1597d92736e6804bb104a849b9 | https://www.historynet.com/last-person-receiving-a-pension-from-civil-war-era-dies.htm | Last Person Receiving Pension from Civil War-Era Dies | Last Person Receiving Pension from Civil War-Era Dies
On Sunday May 31, Irene Triplett, the last person receiving a pension from the U.S. Civil War, died at the age of 90 following complications from surgery, according to the Wilkesboro, North Carolina nursing facility where Triplett lived.
Before her death Triplett co... |
19144446d6541c53aebbe80999acaed3 | https://www.historynet.com/last-plane-cambodia.htm | Last Plane Out of Cambodia | Last Plane Out of Cambodia
As the Communist Khmer Rouge overran Cambodia, a former CIA pilot pulled off a desperate escape.
(Neil Hanson)
Flying for Air America Inc., an airline secretly owned by the CIA in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, had been the most fulfilling nine years of my life. From 1964 to 1973, I h... |
d0ce37fe7eb04d2cd1a75571471de6b5 | https://www.historynet.com/last-to-die-75-years-ago.htm | “Last to Die,” 75 Years Ago: Last American Killed in Combat in World War II | “Last to Die,” 75 Years Ago: Last American Killed in Combat in World War II
August 18, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the death of the last American service member killed in combat in World War II. His name was Anthony Marchione. He’d just turned 21 and was killed by renegade Japanese fighter pilots three days afte... |
bc9e7178c890306c3c4ad3a018c16cc1 | https://www.historynet.com/lawman-legend-bass-reeves-invincible-man-hunter.htm | Lawman Legend Bass Reeves: The Invincible Man Hunter | Lawman Legend Bass Reeves: The Invincible Man Hunter
Casualty rates among deputy U.S. marshals were extremely high in Indian and Oklahoma territories, but Reeves completed his long reign there unscathed while making life miserable for outlaws…white, black or Indian.
He was a frontier lawman above reproach and probably ... |
280b5e46cd3f6381cd198c63ab7f52aa | https://www.historynet.com/lawmens-heated-gun-battle-in-hot-springs.htm | Lawmen’s Heated Gun Battle in Hot Springs | Lawmen’s Heated Gun Battle in Hot Springs
When it comes to naming the wildest towns in the Wild West, the mining town of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, looms near the top on most anyone’s list. Tombstone, when it was booming in the early 1880s, featured gambling, shootings, political factions that divided the law enforc... |
1e2bff024f414d6629f0ab4aebbfc312 | https://www.historynet.com/leah-rosie-rosenfeld.htm | Leah Rosie Rosenfeld | Leah Rosie Rosenfeld
It might come as a surprise to moms, daycare workers, or any woman who has carried a weighty toddler on her hip that there were once “women’s protective laws” forbidding members of the female sex from taking jobs that required them to lift more than 25 pounds or work more than eight hours a day. Le... |
1d7bcf673eea21315b4ad56ea5a51491 | https://www.historynet.com/learned-battle-73-easting.htm | What We Learned: from the Battle of 73 Easting | What We Learned: from the Battle of 73 Easting
On Feb. 26, 1991, the three ground squadrons of the U.S. 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment were part of the Allied effort to retake Kuwait from Iraq. The 2nd ACR’s mission was to establish contact with the main Iraqi Republican Guard defenses, determine the enemy’s strength, fi... |
9c6eaab658d1873763f385c12af69ab5 | https://www.historynet.com/learned-battle-taranto.htm | What We Learned from the Battle of Taranto | What We Learned from the Battle of Taranto
The 1940 British attack on the Italian naval base at Taranto had a significant impact on the early stages of World War II in the Mediterranean. It also had implications that went far beyond that time and place.
Among Britain’s objectives was the preservation of Malta as an ope... |
5357072852a8133f22570ca2481cccd1 | https://www.historynet.com/learned-siege-jadotville-1961.htm | What We Learned From… Siege of Jadotville, 1961 | What We Learned From… Siege of Jadotville, 1961
On June 30, 1960, amid violent riots after 52 years of colonial rule, Belgium reluctantly granted independence to Congo. No longer satisfied with the status quo, black enlisted men in the Force Publique (Congo’s military) mutinied against their white Belgian officers, and... |
b7dac2ce8e094a59a58d07101020f1e8 | https://www.historynet.com/leave-them-standing.htm | Leave Them Standing | Leave Them Standing
Visiting Gettysburg National Military Park should be unsettling. The site exists, after all, because of a breathtaking failure of the nation’s electoral system in 1860. Powerful members of Southern society thought Republican victory menaced the long-term viability of slavery and refused to accept th... |
fa49786a8937f2a3ba16137b442969ce | https://www.historynet.com/leland-smith-american-pow-in-1899-during-the-philippine-insurrection.htm | Leland Smith: American POW in 1899 During the Philippine Insurrection | Leland Smith: American POW in 1899 During the Philippine Insurrection
The band of American Prisoners of War shuffled down a faint trail cut through the forested mountain terrain, pushed along by short, swarthy men armed with rifles. Existing on rice cakes and what little food they could glean from the small villages th... |
cdbf47d614c6db8c313177e9c3f78b55 | https://www.historynet.com/leonard-rosen-82nd-airborne-paratrooper-in-word-war-ii.htm | Leonard Rosen: 82nd Airborne Paratrooper in Word War II | Leonard Rosen: 82nd Airborne Paratrooper in Word War II
Leonard Rosen is a member of a very select fraternity. A volunteer for the paratroops, the 82nd Airborne ‘All-American’ Division trooper survived four combat jumps in 1943-44. Even among elite paratroopers, such an achievement is noteworthy.
Although his experienc... |
3f8d0e7a8a541f4a41f69d9673311057 | https://www.historynet.com/lessons-and-legacies-from-bataan-to-khe-sanh.htm | Lessons and Legacies from Bataan to Khe Sanh | Lessons and Legacies from Bataan to Khe Sanh
In this book Thomas S. Helling, a surgeon at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and veteran of the Army Medical Corps, looks at the hell of war through a special—and very specific—lens: the medical care provided to America’s soldiers and marines on the battlefields... |
b798907e90f96dfa46da0b7e4996c530 | https://www.historynet.com/let-there-be-light-how-a-ptsd-film-worried-army.htm | Let There Be Light: How a Film on PTSD Worried the Army | Let There Be Light: How a Film on PTSD Worried the Army
Acclaimed film director John Huston put his Hollywood career on hold to enlist and make documentaries for the army. After the war, he returned to his old trade: he directed 37 feature films and received 15 Academy Award nominations, winning twice. (National Archi... |
b4237f8067e8cb54bd5d15021f77e847 | https://www.historynet.com/letter-aviation-history-lucky-penney-911.htm | This Daring F-16 Pilot Went on a Kamikaze Mission on 9/11 | This Daring F-16 Pilot Went on a Kamikaze Mission on 9/11
On September 11, 2001, Air Force pilot Heather “Lucky” Penney was asked to do the unthinkable
Nineteen years ago on a sunny September day, civil aviation as we knew it changed forever. So, too, did the lives of all Americans, as the horrifying spectacle of airli... |
88ac49083455030828deb17ecf6132ac | https://www.historynet.com/letter-from-aviation-history-young-aviators-take-wing.htm | Letter From Aviation History: Young Aviators Take Wing | Letter From Aviation History: Young Aviators Take Wing
This is what the future of aviation looks like. Ten young adults—kids really, ages 16 to 20—all members of the Lakeland AeroClub, flying cross-country from Florida to Wisconsin in five antique airplanes for the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual Oshkosh Air... |
481029036b157ab901d3708f9fdfbf75 | https://www.historynet.com/letter-from-wild-west-december-2020.htm | Letter From Wild West — December 2020 | Letter From Wild West — December 2020
New Mexico’s Kid
The great racial divide in New Mexico Territory in the latter half of the 19th century was between Anglo newcomers and Hispanos (Southwesterners of Spanish descent). Anglos generally considered Hispanos inferior in mind, body, spirit, political thinking and social ... |
d50b6e519d8b7e94e2f94be86f6b9ccf | https://www.historynet.com/letters-americas-civil-war-may-2013.htm | Letters – America’s Civil War May 2013 | Letters – America’s Civil War May 2013
Clear and concise
I’ve always liked America’s Civil War, but the March issue was great and particularly easy to understand. I am not a military person, nor am I well versed in mapmaking. I am often confounded by descriptions of troop movements, but in this issue I was able to foll... |
051d3aa2b1efab3d90fe0eb80036a476 | https://www.historynet.com/letters-from-readers-august-2011-vietnam-magazine.htm | Letters from Readers – August 2011 – Vietnam magazine | Letters from Readers – August 2011 – Vietnam magazine
Unique Insights into Storied Images
I immensely enjoyed your story “One Wild Ride for Yankee Papa 10” by Paul Gregoire (April). As a longtime historian of the Vietnam War, I’ve always been fascinated by Larry Burrows’ legendary Life magazine photos of crew chief Lan... |
8110200b9783dfa9adc9fec40fa961ef | https://www.historynet.com/letters-from-readers-aviation-history-march-2015.htm | Letters From Readers—Aviation History March 2015 | Letters From Readers—Aviation History March 2015
Frozen Odyssey
I read with interest the article in the January issue by Joseph Caro about the Junkers W33 Bremen crash. Not mentioned was the rescue of Bremen’s crew via the Ford Tri-Motor pictured on skis on the front page of the Evening Graphic newspaper [P. 51 in Caro... |
97f0f3d18d782fd74225dd95ee26fd49 | https://www.historynet.com/letters-from-readers-december-2007-world-war-ii.htm | Letters From Readers – December 2007 – World War II | Letters From Readers – December 2007 – World War II
Defending MacArthur
I take exception to Richard Frank’s “The MacArthur No One Knew” (September 2007), complaining of MacArthur’s “deft cribbing of the ideas of others.” It is the duty of a commander to get ideas from his staff and to pick what he considers the best. T... |
26f1f68e13f9a7bae4b1e29a6b590e1c | https://www.historynet.com/letters-from-readers-vietnam-magazine-feb-2012.htm | Letters from Readers – Vietnam magazine Feb. 2012 | Letters from Readers – Vietnam magazine Feb. 2012
We Were Lob Bombed Too Following up on General Stanley Cherrie’s article (December, “Case of the Mysterious Lob Bomb”), I was a first lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines, headquartered on Hill 55 southwest of Da Nang in the summer of 1969, serving as a fire di... |
3690698f6fea8e3e0ff510356dd7acb8 | https://www.historynet.com/letters-readers-americas-civil-war-may-2011.htm | Letters from Readers- America’s Civil War May 2011 | Letters from Readers- America’s Civil War May 2011
Setting the record straight
Who’s her daddy?
I became interested in Nancy Hart after your recent article, “The Teenage Terrorist of Roane County” (March 2011), and did an Internet search to learn more. The Web site nkclifton.com/nancy.html contains a genealogy section ... |
5da8d4614069efca5c6bb073b9ff03d3 | https://www.historynet.com/libbie-custers-literary-love-affair-with-her-late-husband.htm | Libbie Custer’s Literary Love Affair With Her Late Husband | Libbie Custer’s Literary Love Affair With Her Late Husband
For nearly six decades after Little Big Horn, George Custer’s widow burnished the general’s reputation and wrote movingly of reconciliation with former foes
Elizabeth Bacon Custer outlived her husband, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, by 57 years. In the nearl... |
501993febbe0e31d2ed8b46603c6f8de | https://www.historynet.com/liberation-route-europe.htm | Retracing the steps of freedom with Liberation Route Europe | Retracing the steps of freedom with Liberation Route Europe
On September 17, 1944, Sergeant Jacob H. Wingard jumped out the door of a C-47 transport aircraft flying over southern Holland. The 22-year old was one of 12 soldiers to leap out of the aircraft—among the 34,600 paratroopers dropping as part of Operation Marke... |
4f18404901b945767e3222388e6aac15 | https://www.historynet.com/lieutenant-general-sir-samuel-auchmuty-the-military-life-of-an-american-loyalist-and-imperial-general.htm | Lieutenant General Sir Samuel Auchmuty: The Military Life of an American Loyalist and Imperial General | Lieutenant General Sir Samuel Auchmuty: The Military Life of an American Loyalist and Imperial General
Although born in New York City in 1756, Samuel Auchmuty’s family came from Fife, Scotland, where there still exist a village called Auchmuty. His family was also Anglican, or Episcopalian as it is called in Scotland a... |
31f2852385519cb919247029557ba4d4 | https://www.historynet.com/life-as-an-air-america-cia-pilot-in-vietnam.htm | Life as an Air America CIA Pilot in Vietnam | Life as an Air America CIA Pilot in Vietnam
In September 1964, I began a journey that was to be my life’s adventure. I was hired as a pilot with Air America, the CIA’s secret airline, working on its clandestine operations in Southeast Asia. It was the world of spooks, covert air ops and adventure. Air America’s pilots ... |
25dd11260165896b71566d9fbe98e0d3 | https://www.historynet.com/light-frigate-uss-essex.htm | Light Frigate USS Essex | Light Frigate USS Essex
Specifications
Overall length: 141 feet Beam: 37 feet Depth of hold: 12 feet 3 inches Displacement: 850 long tons Complement: 300 officers and enlisted Armament in 1799: Twenty-six 12-pounders, ten 6-pounders Armament in 1801: Twenty-eight 12-pounders, eighteen 32-pound carronades Armament in 18... |
131d20008fad21fbf2b0c1973e04d3d0 | https://www.historynet.com/light-my-fire-zippos-in-vietnam.htm | Light My Fire: Zippos in Vietnam | Light My Fire: Zippos in Vietnam
Photo courtesy of Zippo Manufacturing Company.
“Let me win your heart and mind or I’ll burn your God damn hut down.” Those are the words inscribed on the small, slightly beat-up silver Zippo cigarette lighter that sits on my desk. On the reverse is inscribed: “Vietnam, 67-68, Qui Nhon,”... |
8ac0a3522ae4c686f92c964e688537a0 | https://www.historynet.com/lincoln-memorial-a-temple-of-tolerance.htm | Lincoln Memorial: A Temple of Tolerance | Lincoln Memorial: A Temple of Tolerance
Cruel irony of segregated dedication ceremony has given way to reverence and rallies
The brand-new Lincoln Memorial should have inspired a dedication ceremony of, by, and for the people—black as well as white. To adorn its interior, 72-year-old Yankee sculptor Daniel Chester Fren... |
360d469bcf9834119877366a429a3238 | https://www.historynet.com/lincolns-incomparable-address.htm | Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address Is a Speech for the Ages | Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address Is a Speech for the Ages
With malice toward none, with charity toward all, the president sought to bind the wounds of the nation
In August 1864, President Abraham Lincoln was so unpopular and the war so hated that he was certain he would not be reelected in November. In Every Drop of ... |
48a42c08c76002beb8badc7e1fff5d33 | https://www.historynet.com/long-island.htm | Lessons from the Battle of Long Island | Lessons from the Battle of Long Island
The appearance of a British fleet in the waters off Long Island in late June 1776 did not come as a surprise to Continental Army Gen. George Washington. The size of the fleet did, however.
Three months earlier the king’s army had evacuated Boston after unsuccessful attempts to sup... |
dc5ec57e75fcd0d050412a1dcd136f41 | https://www.historynet.com/losing-his-legs-to-a-landmine-changes-professors-life.htm | Losing His Legs to a Landmine Changed Professor’s Life | Losing His Legs to a Landmine Changed Professor’s Life
After sharing Nobel Prize, Ken Rutherford wrote a history of Civil War explosive devices
WHEN THE LANDMINE exploded under his Toyota Landcruiser, Ken Rutherford was temporarily blinded. Then he glanced on the floor of the vehicle and saw a dangling foot. It was his... |
b3237cea0726d8f63ac7a855a75c9906 | https://www.historynet.com/louisiana-maneuvers-1940-41.htm | Louisiana Maneuvers (1940-41) | Louisiana Maneuvers (1940-41)
Infantryman get a close-up look at the M2A1 medium tank during a lull in the 'fighting' at the Louisiana Maneuvers (Courtesy National Archives)
The mock battles of what became known as the Louisiana Maneuvers had one purpose: to prepare America’s soldiers for the war that had already begun... |
4f4f487e1cdfd6cee920a7c3c1bc8515 | https://www.historynet.com/lucky-bastard-club.htm | The Lucky Bastard Club | The Lucky Bastard Club
Members of this informal brotherhood considered themselves fortunate to have survived World War II.
“Would you like to see my Lucky Bastard Club certificate?” Paul Anderson asked me. We had struck up a conversation at the Glenns Ferry Historical Museum in Idaho after I commented on the cap he was... |
3fbd09f23333b3c8843c0c80717291a3 | https://www.historynet.com/lust-for-fame-made-smut-this-puritans-chief-stock-in-trade.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Historynet+%28HistoryNet+%7C+From+the+World%27s+Largest+History+Magazine+Publisher%29 | Lust for Fame Made Smut This Puritan’s Chief Stock in Trade | Lust for Fame Made Smut This Puritan’s Chief Stock in Trade
‘Special Agent’ Anthony Comstock took reporters along when he raided purveyors of porn and prophylactics
Anthony Comstock always dressed in black and white: black suit and shoes, starched white shirt, black bow tie—except at Christmas, when he replaced the bla... |
4b5be8988281ee7f9483fd69fbddf9b8 | https://www.historynet.com/m1903-springfield.htm | M1903 Springfield | M1903 Springfield
Specifications Length: 43.2 inches Barrel length: 24 inches Weight: 8 pounds 11 ounces Bore: .30 inches Effective range: 1,100 yards Maximum range: 5,500 yards Muzzle velocity: 2,800 feet per second
In 1892 the U.S. Army adopted the Norwegian Krag-Jorgensen as its first bolt-action rifle. But during t... |
a584a48387f68861ff6cd8fa7251eb59 | https://www.historynet.com/m4a1-76-mm-sherman.htm | M4A1 (76 mm) Sherman | M4A1 (76 mm) Sherman
Specifications Power: 500-hp Ford GAA four-stroke V-8 water-cooled gasoline engine Length: 24 feet 9 inches (with 76 mm gun) Width: 8 feet 9 inches Height: 11 feet 7/8 inches (to top of pintle stand) Combat weight: 33 tons Armament: 76 mm M1A1 rifled tank gun or 105 mm M4 howitzer, one turret-mount... |
6addb38e1d49b6c761e5eddacf3cd1ca | https://www.britannica.com/science/cuprous-oxide | Cuprous oxide | Cuprous oxide
…accordance with its two valences: cuprous oxide, Cu2O, and cupric oxide, CuO. Cuprous oxide, a red crystalline material, can be produced by electrolytic or furnace methods. It is reduced readily by hydrogen, carbon monoxide, charcoal, or iron to metallic copper. It imparts a red colour to glass and is us... |
7b0f9121cf64cf3d560ed498e1859232 | https://www.britannica.com/science/curie | Curie | Curie
Curie, in physics, unit of activity of a quantity of a radioactive substance, named in honour of the French physicist Pierre Curie. (Even though the committee that named the unit in 1910 said it honoured Pierre Curie, some committee members later said the unit was in honour of both Pierre and Marie Curie [who al... |
38bac73ab5ca897bd2c1621a62c76d66 | https://www.britannica.com/science/Curie-Weiss-law | Curie–Weiss law | Curie–Weiss law
This equation is called the Curie–Weiss law (after Curie and Pierre-Ernest Weiss, another French physicist). From the form of this last equation, it is clear that at the temperature T = θ, the value of the susceptibility becomes infinite. Below this temperature, the material exhibits spontaneous magneti... |
06fa622aab94118b60ea604a800bdde2 | https://www.britannica.com/science/Curies-law | Curie’s law | Curie’s law
…approximate relationship is known as Curie’s law and the constant C as the Curie constant. A more accurate equation is obtained in many cases by modifying the above equation to χ = C/(T − θ), where θ is a constant. This equation is called the Curie–Weiss law (after Curie and…
…proportion to the absolute te... |
8c3b2a1b20019be1db88ab5a5aa3a0fc | https://www.britannica.com/science/curl | Curl | Curl
Curl, In mathematics, a differential operator that can be applied to a vector-valued function (or vector field) in order to measure its degree of local spinning. It consists of a combination of the function’s first partial derivatives. One of the more common forms for expressing it is: in which v is the vector f... |
b14464b61538417334526e10cf141fe5 | https://www.britannica.com/science/cusp-tooth | Cusp | Cusp
…has three raised points, or cusps (i.e., is tricuspid), but modifications involving splitting of cusps or reductions to one cusp are numerous. The modification of the radular tooth reflects dietary differences between species. In particular, with each successive appearance of a carnivorous type during evolution, ... |
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