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In May 1945—70 years ago—the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) sent out a terse, unemotional, 15-word communiqué: “The mission of this Allied force was fulfilled at 0241 local time, May 7, 1945.” Read more
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In the harbor of Tripoli, the 38-gun frigate USS Philadelphia, pride of the Mediterranean Squadron, lay at anchor. Read more
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The casual reader of World War II history will come across the assertion that the Allies in Europe were reading the German codes. Read more
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Many historians consider the Suez-Sinai campaign in the autumn of 1956 the last hurrah for British and French colonialist efforts in the Middle East. Read more
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On the evening of October 13, 1939, the German submarine surfaced off the Orkney Islands in the North Sea. Read more
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Many vestiges of World War II in the Pacific linger, denying the ravages of time.
The battleship USS Missouri, where the war ended nearly 70 years ago, remains as a floating monument and museum at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Read more
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On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, visited the city of Sarajevo and were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a 20-year-old Yugoslav nationalist. Read more
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On August 2, 1990, the Iraqi army invaded Kuwait with the aim of annexing the country. Within a week, U.S. Read more
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To its credit, the United States has been going to extraordinary lengths to reclaim its soldiers missing in action or killed. Read more
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The age of the sailing warships lasted less than three hundred years, beginning roughly with the battle of the Spanish armada against the English fleet under Howard and Drake in 1588, and ending at the Battle of Navarrino in 1827, the last major naval engagement fought completely under canvas. Read more
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The trailer for another Call of Duty game, this one being developed by Sledgehammer Games, leaked online. Called Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, the game will be set in the year 2054. Read more
