Willie Johnson was a 35-year-old African American from South Carolina with a wife and six…
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At Eight-Years-Old This Girl Survived the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. Now, at 90, She Recalls Her Ordeal.
Leanne Blinzler Noe was eight years old and living in the Philippines with her family…
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Meet the Heroes Who Delivered Aid and Comforted the Dying on the Battlefields of World War I
In the agony of trench warfare and no man’s land, the sound of a skitter…
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Tour Stop One at Vicksburg National Military Park is the location of “Battery DeGolyer.” Named…
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As it is today, entertainment was an important part of life in the 19th century—and…
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The Asiatic-Pacific Theater in World War II culminated with a grueling, bloody amphibious campaign to…
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The Fighting for This Italian Town Was so Brutal They Called It the Stalingrad of the Adriatic
The Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment—a Canadian unit known as the Hasty Ps—were ordered to…
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Probably no other aircraft from World War II are as easily recognized as the shark-mouthed…
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America is a nation built on distinct individualism as well as common values. This sense…
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The lyrics to America’s most famous marching song of the Civil War were written when…