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[Featured image: RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopters sitting on the deck of USS Nimitz prior to taking off for Operation EAGLE CLAW. Several helicopters experienced failures en route, forcing Col. Charles …

[Featured image: A U.S. Navy ASM-N-2 Bat bomb on a Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer.] 1778: Capt. John Paul Jones, commanding the Continental sloop-of-war Ranger, leads a daring ship-to-shore raid on the …

[Featured image: the Red Baron’s famous Fokker Dr.I triplane in which the infamous German aviator scored his final 19 kills.] 1861: Col. Robert E. Lee, considered for a top command …

The Richland County Sheriff’s Dept.—one of six LIVE PD-featured law enforcement agencies—establishes new elder-focused team. Writer, editor, and military analyst W. Thomas Smith Jr. has long been recognized as an …

1775: An expedition of 700 British regulars under the command of Lt. Col. Frances Smith departs Boston to seize and destroy military stores of the Massachusetts Militia in Concord. At …

[Featured image: The U.S. Embassy at Beirut, Lebanon after the suicide bomb attack.] 1775: Paul Revere and William Dawes begin their famous “midnight ride” from Boston to Lexington, Mass., where …

1847: U.S. Army forces under the command of Gen. Winfield Scott outmaneuver, drive from a superior position, inflict heavy losses, and decisively defeat a numerically superior Mexican Army under Gen. …

[Featured image: Apollo 16 astronaut John Young standing on the moon. Behind him is the “Orion” Lunar Module and lunar rover.] 1898: Following the sinking of the USS Maine in …

[Featured image: the Apollo 13 crew works to assemble the “mailbox” – the device that engineers at NASA have designed using various on-hand materials to remove carbon monoxide.] 1941: When …

[Featured image: Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on the first-ever space shuttle mission.] 1861: Confederate Brig. Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard’s artillery forces — strategically positioned around Charleston harbor, S.C. — …