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The best way to remember the greatest generation is to emulate them
On April 24, 1944, 2nd Lt. John R. Pedevillano was flying in a B-17 over Nazi territory when the fighters escorting his formation were drawn away in combat, leaving the bombers defenseless against air...
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13 professional baseball players who became war heroes
When the American military calls, America’s pastime answers. Here are 14 men who played on the diamond before serving on the battlefield. All of them went above and beyond in either the game or combat,...
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This stunning combat art reveals what aerial warfare was like during World...
Thanks to the digital camera, battlefield artists are quickly fading in relevance.But handcrafted battlefield art often best evokes the realities of past armed conflict. Art from the skies of World War...
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This incredible WWII plane owned by Thomas Kaplan just sold for $AU6.4 million
The Spitfire is synonymous with the Battle of Britain, the air war that started today, July 10, 75 years ago. The single engine fighter was at the frontline of British defence against countless waves...
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This man is the only US Coast Guard member to ever win a Medal of Honor
In 1939, the U.S. Coast Guard had been turning away recruits for years during the Great Depression. But, the Seattle office found itself with seven openings in September of that year and admitted seven...
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Eerie photos of World War II relics preserved at the bottom of the Pacific...
More than 150 Allied World War II aircraft are lying 130 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean.The so-called airplane graveyard is located in the Kwajalein Atoll, Roi-Namur, near the Marshall Islands. Fierce...
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That time when nuclear weapons were at 4 US civilian aiports
When America’s Strategic Air Command is ordered to Defense Condition 3 (DEFCON 3) or above, it disperses its nuclear bombers fully-armed across the U.S. and certain allied countries so that the bombers...
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How this letter from a genius pacifist inspired the US to build the most...
A month before World War II, German-born genius Albert Einstein wrote a two-page letter that launched the US into a nuclear arms race against the Nazis.In the 1939 letter, Einstein warned President...
View ArticleWe went inside a secret basement under Grand Central that was one of the...
Hidden 10 stories below Grand Central Terminal, a secret basement can be found. This basement was a prime New York City target during World War II, as it provided electricity for trains in the...
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The 5 most bizarre weapons of World War II
Unfortunately, war can drive innovation. During World War II, the world's major powers set their sights on advancing technology, medicine, and communications in order to be efficient and fearsome in...
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3 early tank designs that were too ridiculous to function
Tanks are a staple of ground warfare. Militaries around the world deploy a wide range of tanks, but typically they conform to some basic principals. In nearly all of them, a large turret sits on top of...
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It's been 70 years since the worst disaster in the history of the US Navy
Seventy years ago, the worst naval disaster in US history and worst shark attack ever were overshadowed by the dropping of the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.The...
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A stranded Dutch warship evaded Japanese bombers in WWII by disguising...
Sometimes in life, the guy with the drunken, so-crazy-it-just-might-work ideas hits one out of the park and saves the day.This seems to be what happened in 1942 aboard the HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, the...
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Incredible photos a son found of his father in Okinawa
The 718th Amphibian Tractor Battalion shipped out just in time to participate in the invasion of Leyte Gulf, where they took part in raids behind Japanese lines.Though seeing a fair amount of action,...
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The Legenday F4U Corsair as you have never seen it before
The Vought F4U Corsair is probably one of the most famous American fighter planes ever.More than 12,500 examples of this aircraft were manufactured by Vought beginning in 1940, with final delivery of...
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The incredible story of US Navy sailors sunk by torpedos and then attacked by...
When the USS Indianapolis was sunk by Japanese torpedoes in the final weeks of WWII, around 900 men of the crew jumped into the water to escape the burning ship.Yet that was just the start of their...
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The AP just put one million minutes of historical footage on YouTube — here...
The Associated Press and partner British Movietone have made 120 years of historical news footage available online for the first time ever by uploading 550,000 YouTube videos.That adds up to over one...
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Audio of an historic speech Japan's emperor gave at the end of World War II...
TOKYO (AP) — The 4 ½-minute speech that has reverberated throughout Japan's modern history since it was delivered by Emperor Hirohito at the end of World War II has come back to life in digital...
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Beijing is shutting factories and ordering cars off the road to ensure clean...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing will limit the number of vehicles on the streets and shut factories to ensure clean air during a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, the...
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5 myths about the atomic bomb
1. The bomb ended the war.The notion that the atomic bombs caused the Japanese surrender on Aug. 15, 1945, has been, for many Americans and virtually all U.S. history textbooks, the default...
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