[Featured image: officers and crew aboard the Union ironclad USS Monitor. Damage to the turret – housing two 11-in. Dahlgren guns – from the clash with CSS Virginia is visible …
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[Featured image: Pvt. George H. “Babe” Ruth salutes Gen. John J. Pershing. (Library of Congress photo)] 1930: A former private in the N.Y. National Guard’s 104th Field Artillery Division, George …
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[Featured image: Maj. Robert M. White – the first man to fly four times the speed of sound – climbing out of the cockpit of his X-15 rocketplane. (USAF photo)] …
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[Featured image: “Tuskegee Airman” Capt. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. in 1942. Davis is the son of Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. – the first black general in U.S. military history. (National …
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[Featured image: SSgt. Barry Sadler, Special Forces medic-turned signer/songwriter] 1770: A contingent of armed British soldiers fire into a crowd of protesting colonists in what will become known as the …
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[Featured image: Air Force F-105 “Thunderchief” aircraft of the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron dropping bombs on North Vietnam during Operation ROLLING THUNDER. (U.S. Air Force photo)] 1942: 1st Lt. Ed …
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[Featured image: although only the fifth-largest nuclear test in history – the Soviets set off four devices that were more powerful – “Castle Bravo” was the largest nuclear test conducted …
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[Featured image: A South Carolina Air National Guard F-16-C “Fighting Falcon,” similar to the F-16Cs used to shoot down four Serbian Air Force aircraft in 1994. (U.S. Air Force photo)] …
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[Featured image: the MH-6 “Little Bird” helicopter (U.S. Army photo)] 1942: A flotilla of 14 Dutch, British, Australian, and American ships suffers a disastrous defeat at the hands of a …
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[Featured image: the scene of destruction after U.S. and coalition aircraft target a convoy of escaping Iraqi soldiers along the “Highway of Death.” (U.S. Air Force photo) 1949: Lucky Lady …