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Tommy vs. Charlie – Britain’s Little-Known Six-Month War in Vietnam
“British and Indian troops would become the first Allied soldiers to do battle with the Viet Minh, an insurgent army that would later go onto to vanquish the French and humble the United States.” IN…
Winning Hearts and Minds – The Art Of Propaganda Is As Old As War Itself
An all out ground war in Gaza seems inevitable in the coming days following a week’s worth of punitive air strikes against Palestinians by Israeli aircraft. The raids are a response to a surge of…
U.S. News Site Lists ‘Five Best’ WW2 Movies Ever — What Films Did They Miss?
We found this little story on the website for a Utah-based news station: It’s a list of the five supposed ‘best’ World War Two films ever made. While the author, Cody Carlson, rightly includes Patton (1970)…
Bomber Girls — The Women Flyers of World War Two
“Between 1942 and 1944, WASP pilots flew just about every sort of aircraft produced for the U.S. military from fighters and bombers to cargo planes and trainers.” LAST WEEKEND, a 92-year-old Colorado woman did something…
The Quasi War – A Young America Slugs It Out With France
“Known as the Quasi War… the seeds of this strange and often forgotten struggle were actually sown a generation earlier.” BARELY 15 YEARS after winning independence from Great Britain, the United States found itself in a brand…
Lest We Forget — How Different Countries Remember Their War Dead
“The small artificial flowers, which are pinned to the lapel, symbolize the poppies that grew in Flanders fields during the First World War.” EVERY NOV. 11 at exactly 11 a.m., life throughout much of the British…
