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Merchant Marines
Dear Editors:
I subscribed to your magazine hoping to see something about merchant marines during WWII. It seems you have forgotten them. Read more
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“Butch” O’Hare
By John DomagalskiIt was 7:25 am when Flight Captain William Motes brought his plane down for landing. The arrival of the American Airlines Convair on October 30, 1955, marked the beginning of the first day of regularly scheduled passenger service at Chicago’s new O’Hare International Airport. Read more
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Katyn Forest Massacre
Dear Editors:
Thank you for your article by Richard Rule concerning the Katyn Forest massacre, its subsequent cover-up by the Soviets, and worse, the lack of further action by the Western Allies. Read more
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A conscientious objector, Private Desmond Doss won his nation’s highest award for bravery.
The fighting on Okinawa proved to be some of the most savage of the Pacific War. As American soldiers and Marines blasted the island’s Japanese defenders from reinforced bunkers, caves, and even tombs, incidences of incredible bravery and self sacrifice were commonplace. Read more
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Stemming the Undefeated Tide
By James MarinoThe third banzai charge that night struck the inexperienced, worn out infantry with the force of a blowtorch. Read more
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The outcome of the Battle of the Bulge might have been very different—starting for some of us at home.
Sixty years ago this month, in the Ardennes region of eastern Belgium, Adolf Hitler rolled the dice for the last time in World War II. Read more
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The Army and Air Power
By Sam McGowanWhen the United States Army first developed an interest in aviation and purchased its first airplane from the Wright Company in 1909, it and the pilots and mechanics who flew and serviced it were assigned to the Signal Corps, a specialty corps that had been established prior to the Civil War to develop visual signals, then later to develop and service telegraph lines. Read more
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Actor Leslie Howard Died in Plane Shot Down by Nazis 80 Years Ago.
On the morning of June 1, 1943, the Douglas DC-3 lifted off from the airport at Lisbon in neutral Portugal. BOAC Flight 777 or Dutch KLM Flight 2L272, as it had been designated, carried 13 passengers and its crew on a flight bound for London. Read more
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Drawn to the Axis
By Blaine TaylorAccording to the 1960 memoirs of Henriette Hoffmann von Schirach, Adolf Hitler called Father Josef Tiso, a monsignor in the Roman Catholic Church and premier of Fascist Slovakia, “The little parson.” Read more
