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The Polaroid Optical Ring Sight greatly increased the accuracy of gunners. It is little known that the creation of this sighting system was the result of a combined effort of a disparate group of Americans, including optics experts, miners, moonshiners, Soldiers, Marines, and even an artist. Read more
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The Marine Corps fielded 484,000 troops in the Pacific during the war; the US Army contributed 1.77 million. Read more
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On the morning of December 19, 1944, artillery began to fall on the men of the 482nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion. Read more
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On September 19, 1944, Walter Stitt, serving as a loader in an M4 Sherman, lost his first tank. Read more
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From the time the invasion fleet arrived off the Normandy coast and the first pathfinders parachuted out of their aircraft inland, the press was formulating a narrative of the event which would inform the American view of the event up to the current day. Read more
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Alaric the Goth spent years fighting the Roman Army under their Gen. Flavius Stilicho, then served as a Roman officer, leading a Visigoth army which helped defeat Roman foes. Read more
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During the 1980s, Libyan dictator Muamar Qaddafi began an undeclared war against the United States, supporting terrorist attacks and sponsoring various terror groups in the Middle East. Read more
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The Mongols were always a dangerous force on land, with massive armies of horsemen employing great mobility to defeat their foes. Read more
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By Christopher Miskimon
Waller King, Joe Albritton and Homer Ainsworth grew up in the same neighborhood in Clinton, Mississippi. They knew each other at school, in church and everyday life. Read more
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Soon after the Civil War, the United States Congress authorized the formation of six regiments of African-American troops, soon reduced to four. Read more
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From 1965 to 1975, the Sultanate of Oman fought a counterinsurgency campaign against a communist backed revolt in Dhofar Province, a remote and barren area. Read more
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The period of conflict in the second half of the 15th Century, known generally as the Wars of the Roses, is one of the more chaotic and dramatic times in British history. Read more
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On August 24, 1914, 44 Americans joined the French Foreign Legion to fight the new war against Germany. Read more
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English settlers arrived in North America and established the Jamestown colony in 1607. They hoped for fortune growing tobacco and maintained difficult relations with the Powhatan Confederacy. Read more
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After China fell to Communist rule in 1949, it became a new threat to the West in the fledgling Cold War. Read more
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Japan’s striking force sailed for Midway on May 27, 1942, a day later than planned, after some late preparations were complete. Read more
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There are no large cities and few sizable towns in Normandy between Cherbourg and Caen. One of those towns is Sainte-Mère Église, a crossroads valuable for the invading Allied forces in June 1944. Read more
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Captain Stanton Johnson’s company of New Zealand infantry slowly recovered from a bombing raid by the German Luftwaffe. Read more
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The United States played an important role at the end of World War I. Even during the 1930s, gripped by economic depression, America had enormous actual and potential industrial capacity. Read more
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The Pacific War of 1941-1945 really stems from the Sino-Japanese conflicts of the 1930s. It most likely would not have happened had Japan not been embroiled in a war in China, which began with sporadic skirmishing and “incidents” in the early 1930s. Read more
