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  • Native Americans demostrated extraordinary service, honor, and heroism during World War I. Anglo officers revered them for their abilities, but no one early on thought their language would help confound the Germans.

    Military History

    Choctaw Code Talkers in World War I
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  • In an ambush led by Arminius (later known as Hermann), three Roman legions were destroyed in Germania in 9 CE. The event, one of Rome’s worst defeats, was seized upon by nationalists in the 19th-century, and later by the Nazi Third Reich, as the mythological origin of the German state. Paintings such as “The battle of Hermann in the Teutoburg Forest,” (1840) by Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Elder, helped popularize Hermann as the father of the German nation.

    Military History

    Havoc in the Teutoburger Forest
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  • Sarah Edmonds of the 2nd Michigan Infantry, disguised as a male Union soldier, undertakes a daring spy mission in this period engraving.

    Civil War

    The U.S. Civil War’s Female Combatants
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  • During the crucial Battle of Stalingrad, a German Sturmgeschutz III self-propelled assault gun rumbles across the snow covered landscape while Wehrmacht soldiers hitch a ride.

    WWII

    Stalingrad: Battle in the Cauldron
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