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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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In the 1950s a small group of French artists in Paris took toy soldiers and began converting them into what we now know as military miniatures. Read more
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Paratrooper Lt. Col. Bill Yarborough was flying into hell. As he prepared to jump from a Douglas C-47 transport plane then approaching the coast of Sicily, hundreds of American antiaircraft gunners below started shooting at him. 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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At the start of the Battle of Amiens, Sergeant Paul Maze was in a forward observation post not a thousand yards from the front, peering into the darkness for any signs of enemy activity. 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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Two days after receiving intelligence on the route of an important enemy convoy, the USS Sculpin (Sargo-class submarine SS-191) made radar contact with the Japanese ships near the Caroline Islands in the Western Pacific Ocean. Read more
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For the thousands of Allied soldiers who had fought and suffered for so long in the shadow of the abbey of Monte Cassino, Tuesday morning, February 15, 1944, was a time of joy and celebration. Read more
