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Flying Into Hell
by Frank Murphy
During WWII, Frank Murphy flew twenty-one daylight combat missions with the Mighty Eighth. The os of…
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War and Peace
by Tom Clavin
78 years ago Joe Moser was shot down during his 44th mission. Joe…
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Faulkner the Pilot
by Taylor Brown
“This was 1915 and ‘16. I had seen an aeroplane and my mind…
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Bomber Down
by Kevin Maurer
Writing Damn Lucky was an amazing experience, but one of the frustrations was…
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The Rise and Fall of Aviation’s Golden Couple
by Corey Mead
by Corey Mead During the height of the roaring twenties, Jessie Miller longs for adventure. Fleeing a…
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Robert Lee Scott Jr: A Double Ace of the Flying Tigers
by Robert Coram Robert Lee Scott Jr. For all of his long life, the south was…
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Charles Sumner Witnesses the “Abraham Lincoln Magic”
by Stephen Puleo
In April 1865, at General Ulysses S. Grant’s Headquarters at City Point, Virginia,…
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The Wreck of USS Monitor
by David Gibbins
Almost half of the ships that I cover in my book, A History…
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America’s Most Clandestine Military Unit
Adam Gamal (a pseudonym created to keep his family safe from harm) served in the most…
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Feathered Fighters
by Tom Clavin
67 years ago, the U.S. Army Pigeon Service closed. You might think that…
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7 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month
This Women’s History Month, we bring you seven titles highlighting the amazing feats of women, whether…
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Good With a Gun
by Tom Clavin
In the following excerpt from Follow Me to Hell, Tom Clavin introduces John…
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When Fascists Roamed America’s Cities
by Thomas Mullen
When we think about the World War II years, we tend to visualize…
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The Mayor and the Nazis
by Terry Golway
As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time in the…
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