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The Last Gunfighters – History’s Final Piston-Engine Warplanes
“Despite the arrival of jets, propellor-driven fighter planes (most of them obsolete) continued to do battle in many of the world’s hotspots for another 25 years.” THE AGE OF the jet fighter officially began on July…
“We Blundered Most Egregiously” – Britain’s Ill-Fated ‘Naval Descents’ of the Seven Years War
“The landings were largely a byproduct of the growing restlessness within the British government to somehow go on the offensive in the global conflict against France and her allies.” AT DAWN ON AUG. 19, 1942,…
Clash at Poljana – The WW2 Battle That Was Fought A Week After VE Day
Last January, MHN.com published an article about a series of battles from history that were fought after the opposing sides had already agreed to suspend hostilities. The piece included such dust ups as the Battle…
Asylum-Seekers – Famous (and Not So Famous) Soviet Defectors
THE LITERARY world lost one of its most accomplished authors last week – Tom Clancy. The 66-year-old former insurance agent’s career as a novelist spanned four decades, during which time the Maryland native penned…
Smithsonian Reveals Astounding Cache of Civil War Relics in New Book
Although the shutdown of the U.S. government has closed the venerable Smithsonian Institute for a time, history buffs will still be able to explore some of the museum’s more remarkable U.S. Civil War artifacts, thanks…
‘Let There Be Light’ — The Wartime PTSD Film the U.S. Army Didn’t Want You to See
“Huston’s wish was to let America see and understand the fragile emotional state of many returning vets.” U.S. ARMY DOCTORS in the Second World War didn’t use the term “post-traumatic stress disorder,” but they knew…
