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The Essential Role of Navy PBR Boats in the Vietnam War

The U.S. Navy’s river patrol boats played a crucial role in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War.

9 September 2020

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How Winston Churchill Prolonged the Defense of Antwerp in World War I

Antwerp proved no match for the German Army’s Krupp guns in the autumn of 1914 despite the best efforts of Winston Churchill to bolster the city’s defenses.

9 September 2020

Carl Gnam

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How The RAF’s Eagle Squadrons Joined the Eighth Air Force

American fighter pilots who fought for the RAF during World War II later became members of the U.S. Army Air Forces.

9 September 2020

Carl Gnam

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Peach Orchard Bloodbath: Day 2 of the Battle of Gettysburg

The Confederate attack during the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg overran the Union III Corps and, in one place, reached the crest of Cemetery Ridge.

9 September 2020

Carl Gnam

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Operation Market Garden: The American Airborne’s Audacious Role

The U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions achieved their Operation Market Garden objectives and remained for weeks of ground combat in the Netherlands.

9 September 2020

Carl Gnam

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Hitler’s Bold Attack at Mortain

Facing disaster after the American breakout from the Normandy beachhead, Hitler ordered a panzer attack against the Allies at Mortain.

4 September 2020

Carl Gnam

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The Film and Battle of San Pietro

Famed director John Huston crafted a controversial film depicting the brutal Battle of San Pietro.

4 September 2020

Carl Gnam

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Colonel William O. Darby and the U.S. Army Rangers

Colonel William O. Darby molded the U.S. Army’s newly created Rangers into an elite and highly respected force during World War II.

28 August 2020

Carl Gnam

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First Battle of the Naktong Bulge

During the Korean War, understrength U.S. Army forces slugged it out with the North Korean 4th Division in the Naktong Bulge in August 1950. The North Koreans punched through the American front line, putting U.S. forces in a precarious position.

28 August 2020

Carl Gnam

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Marine Sergeant Mitchell Paige: Valor on Guadalcanal

On a rain-soaked ridge on Guadalcanal, Marine Sergeant Mitchell Paige led his machine-gun platoon in the face of overwhelming odds and spearheaded a bayonet attack against the Japanese.

25 August 2020

Carl Gnam

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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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