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Hitler’s Waffen-SS and the Last Battle in Berlin

A band of foreign Waffen-SS troops formed up to resist the Red Army in Berlin during the last week of April 1945.

25 August 2020

Carl Gnam

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The RAF’s Dambusting Lancaster Bomber

The British RAF modified the Avro Lancaster bomber to deliver a bouncing bomb capable of destroying Germany’s Ruhr dams.

3 July 2020

Carl Gnam

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Sinking Japanese Submarine I-1

A pair of New Zealand minesweepers teamed up to sink a Japanese submarine off Guadalcanal.

30 June 2020

Carl Gnam

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Fetterman Massacre on the Bozeman Trail

The Sioux and their allies lured Captain William Fetterman’s patrol at Fort Phil Kearny into a deadly trap in the winter of 1866 in retaliation for trespassing on treaty lands.

26 June 2020

Carl Gnam

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The Fight for Bougainville

After winning the battle for Guadalcanal, American military planners moved toward Bougainville and the Northern Solomons.

26 June 2020

Carl Gnam

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D-Day Assault on Juno Beach

Canadian troops stormed ashore in Normandy on D-Day.

23 June 2020

Carl Gnam

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Jimmy Doolittle: The Warrior from Shangri-La

General Doolittle survived his hazardous mission to bomb Tokyo and commanded air forces in the European and Mediterranean Theaters.

22 June 2020

Carl Gnam

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Canadian Valor at the Battle of Amiens

The Canadian Corps played a crucial role in the successful assault on German positions near Amiens on August 8, 1918. Ludendorff called Amiens “the black day of the German Army.”

19 June 2020

Carl Gnam

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The Devil’s Brigade of World War II

The 1st Special Service Force gained its place in history with daring exploits in combat in France and Italy.

16 June 2020

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Rebel Gamble at Nashville

The fate of John Bell Hood’s counter-invasion of Tennessee in late 1864 rested on whether he could defeat George H. Thomas at Nashville.

12 June 2020

Carl Gnam

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Clash of Heavy Tanks at Cologne

The U.S. Army’s M26 Pershing tank arrived on the Western Front in the closing months of World War II to take on the German Tiger and other formidable panzers.

12 June 2020

Carl Gnam

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Remembering D-Day

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy to open the Western Front to liberate France during World War II.

5 June 2020

Carl Gnam

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Weapons: A-6 Intruder

The Navy and Marine Corps used the A-6 Intruder for a wide array of strike missions during the Vietnam War.

29 May 2020

Carl Gnam

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German Bombing of Bath

After RAF bombings of historic German cities, the Luftwaffe descended on Britain’s “Cathedral Cities” in April and May 1942. The hardest hit was the ancient city of Bath.

26 May 2020

Carl Gnam

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Recording the Pearl Harbor Attack

A pair of amateur filmmakers captured the fateful Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with their 8mm movie camera as it was occurring.

22 May 2020

Carl Gnam

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