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Top Military Movies To Watch For in 2023
This year is shaping up to be an exciting one in terms of movies slated for release that will appeal to military audiences. There is no dearth of topics to be covered…
How People Remembered Billy the Kid
With smoking six-guns Billy the Kid blazed a path across American folklore as wide as the Chisholm Trail. Fact and fiction meld inscrutably in the tales of the young…
The Oral History of Billy the Kid
With smoking six-guns Billy the Kid blazed a path across American folklore as wide as the Chisholm Trail. Fact and fiction meld inscrutably in the tales of the young…
This Maori WWII Ace Lived and Died as a Hero
Since the last of a series of wars between British colonists and native Maoris ended in 1872, white residents of New Zealand came to respect their fierce warrior…
Book Review: Tanks in the Battle of Germany 1945: Western Front
Ah, tanks—who can resist their charms? This well-written and handy little book is the first in a two-part series focusing on tanks used in the desperate final conquest…
The Day Wiley Post Killed Will Rogers (And Himself)
It was just after 7 p.m. local time on August 15, 1935, a frigid day of patchy fog on the far northwest coast of Alaska. Famed flier Wiley Post and his good friend and…
Controversial Confederate General A.P. Hill Reinterred in His Hometown
On Saturday, January 21, Confederate General A.P. Hill’s remains were reinterred at Fairview Cemetery in Culpeper, Va., where the general was born. The reburial follows…
Who’s Really in This Iconic Vietnam War Photo?
It has become one of the most enduring photographs of the Vietnam War: Several wounded, dead or dying American troops ride atop a tank being used as a makeshift…
How North Korean Assassins Slipped By American Patrols and Almost Started a Coup
On the night of Jan. 17, 1968, 31 commandos from the North Korean Peoples’ Army (KPA) cut holes in the chain-link fence running along the southern edge of the…
Lewis and Clark’s Race Against Spain
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On a hot day in September 1806, with flags flying, Lieutenant Facundo Melgares led some 300 Spanish army troopers…