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West Point Museum and Hyde Park: New York’s Greatest Military History Museums

America’s first military museum and FDR's historic home are the two military history sites in New York State that you shouldn't miss.

25 December 2018

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The Silent Service: A Submariner Aboard the USS Seal

An American submariner tells what it was like to face death and survive in the underwater war.

25 December 2018

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Battle of Midway: Story of a Yorktown Survivor

A young sailor aboard the doomed carrier Yorktown recounts the battle that sank the ship and almost cost him his life.

24 December 2018

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WWII Aircraft: Curtiss SB2C Helldiver

U.S. Navy dive-bomber crews flew the unpopular and flawed Curtiss SB2C Helldiver late in World War II.

24 December 2018

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Tom Harrisson: An Anthropologist’s War in Borneo

Anthropologist Tom Harrisson led operations against the Japanese on the world’s third largest island.

24 December 2018

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Burying the Dead in WWII: The Quartermaster Graves Registration Service

The grim but necessary task of caring the the war dead was the responsibility of the Army’s graves registration units.

24 December 2018

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Storming the Point at Peleliu

The 1st Marine Division staged a bloody amphibious assault for a questionable prize.

23 December 2018

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Japan’s Road to War

Five decades of mutual antagonism spark war int he Pacific and East Asia.

23 December 2018

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The USO Turns 75: American soldiers’ “Home Away From Home”

During WWII, the unique civilian organization did much to boost the morale of soldiers at home and abroad.

23 December 2018

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National Museum of the Pacific War

The world-class National Museum of the Pacific War recalls the conflicts vast sweep.

23 December 2018

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An Ace in a day: Ted Crosby’s Air War in the Pacific

During furious fights over the Pacific, naval aviator Ted Crosby shot down five Japanese planes in one day.

22 December 2018

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Killing Yamamoto: Operation Vengeance From Roger Ames’ Cockpit

P-38 pilot Roger Ames, an American eyewitness, tells of the shooting down of Japan’s most important admiral.

22 December 2018

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Kerama Retto: Key to Victory at Okinawa

On a half dozen forgotten islands, American soldiers encountered the human cost of war.

20 December 2018

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USS Seawolf at the Battle of Christmas Island

The submarine Seawolf single-handedly tried to stop a Japanese invasion—and barely escaped to fight another day.

20 December 2018

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Demise of the Japanese Navy

The naval combat that raged around the Philippines invasion was preceded by a game of reconnaisance, intelligence gathering, and planning.

19 December 2018

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