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Science News January 20, 2007	Timeline: From the January 16, 1937, issue Out of the white... All-wavelength broadcast to probe earth's ionosphere... Connection found between vitamin and poison protection...
Civil War Times January 2007 Richard F. Selcer	Ulysses S. Grant: The "Unconditional Surrender" Continues U.S. Grant's mastery of the `art of surrender' continued at Vicksburg and climaxed at Appomattox, where his terms began the reconciliation of a shattered nation.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Kieron Murphy	When Radio Was America Alfred Balk's book, The Rise of Radio: From Marconi Through the Golden Age, moves rapidly from the invention of the technology to its implementation, proceeding from Morse to Maxwell to Marconi and others.
Military History February 2007 Bob Bergin	Interview with Harold E. Fischer: Korean War Jet Ace and POW Colonel Harold Fischer survived two years in a Chinese prison camp after getting shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War.
World War II February 2007 Dick Camp	The Leatherneck Resistance: A Secret World War II OSS Mission An elite group of Marine paratroopers joins French freedom fighters on a covert mission behind enemy lines.
Aviation History January 2007 Otto Kreisher	The Rise of the Helicopter During the Korean War Used primarily for search and rescue in the Korean War's early days, choppers had become an essential battlefield tool by the conflict's end.
Aviation History January 2007	Letter From the swashbuckling days of the post-World War I barnstormers to long-distance flying feats such as Charles Lindbergh's iconic solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, the appeal of flight was on a dizzying climb.
Military History January 2007 Ricardo Bonalume Neto	A New Era in Aerial Warfare Began During the Korean War The first months of the Korean War saw a struggle for air superiority acted out by the fighters of the World War II vintage. Then the MiGs arrived, and a new era in aerial warfare began.
Military History January 2007	Letter - Seeking an Edge It is no wonder that the World War II Allies raced to capture the V-2s, their manufacturing facilities, and above all the scientists and technicians who brought those breakthrough rockets into being.
D-Lib February 2007	D-Lib Featured Collection The Lincoln/Net World Wide Web site provides online users with an opportunity to examine and search large amounts of primary source materials pertaining to a specific historical figure and period.
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