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Veterans Day Special: A Gallery of Heroes
By Al HemingwayWhen the United States was plunged into World War II on December 7, 1941, more than 16 million Americans answered their country’s call and donned a uniform. Read more
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The USS DuPage: Braving Kamikazes From Air And Sea
By Don SmartThe mighty invasion armada for the main thrust at Luzon in the Philippine Islands was being assembled on December 28, 1944. Read more
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“Red” Mantini: Hero Of The 24th Infantry Division In Philippines
By Richard A. BerantyAngelo J. “Red” Mantini was hardly an angel growing up in the small coal-mining towns of western Pennsylvania in the 1930s. Read more
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Japanese Battleship Yamato Makes Its Final Stand
Dy Gerald AstorIn the late afternoon of April 6, 1945, five days after American GIs and leathernecks scrambled onto an Okinawa beach a scant 500 miles from Japan, two U.S. Read more
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Survival: The Story of the USS Franklin
By Chuck LyonsThe USS Franklin was not a lucky ship. In March 1945, off the Japanese mainland, the Essex-class aircraft carrier was hit by two 550-pound bombs that struck her flight deck and penetrated into the hangar deck. Read more
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Literally Cutting Down Your Enemy in a Vought F4U Corsair
By Christopher MiskimonThe Battle of Okinawa raged not only on the island itself but in the skies overhead. Japanese aircraft attacked the invading Americans not only through conventional bombing attacks but also by using the dreaded Kamikaze—suicide pilots who turned their planes into guided missiles to inflict more damage. Read more
