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World War II April 22, 2004 Brian Todd Carey |
Operation Pointblank: Evolution of Allied Air Doctrine In October 1943, the U.S. Eighth Air Force's losses became critical, forcing a reappraisal of the American daylight bombing strategy. |
World War II April 22, 2004 Teresa K. Flatley |
Bizarre B-17 Collision Over the North Sea When a pair of B-17s collided in midair and became interlocked in 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge, the surviving crewmen experienced the ride of their lives. |
World War II John Bryant |
Robert Felgar: A Bomber Pilot Remembers An interview with Robert Felgar about being shot down and captured in WWII. |
Smithsonian May 2004 Mitch Tuchman |
Indelible Images - Supremely Wilde How an 1882 portrait of the flamboyant man of letters reached the highest court in the land and changed U.S. law forever. |
CIO April 15, 2004 |
Murder Plot Most Thick It took five centuries to untangle the code in a letter written by a previously unknown collaborator in a famous Italian Renaissance murder plot. |
Civil War Times April 17, 2004 Ethan S. Rafuse |
Ulysses S. Grant: The Union's New Three-Star General Not since 1798 had congress trusted a soldier with the full power of the lieutenant generalcy. Clearly, great things were expected from Ulysses S. Grant. |
Science News April 17, 2004 |
From the April 14, 1934, issue Ho-Hum! Live "Teddy" has Yawny Spells, Too... Disagreeable Alcohols Come From Smothered Vegetables... Superior Antibiotics Protect Adults from Diseases... |
American History April 10, 2004 J. Kingston Pierce |
Andrew Jackson's 'Petticoat Affair' When President Andrew Jackson defended the honor of the wife of his secretary of war, the resulting scandal broke up his first cabinet and threatened to make his administration a laughingstock. |
American History April 10, 2004 Robert V. Remini |
Andrew Jackson Versus the Cherokee Nation "Old Hickory" had been an Indian fighter, and he continued the struggle as president with the Indian Removal Act. |
American History April 10, 2004 Stephen Currie |
Thomas E. Dewey Defeats the Dutchman 1930s Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey helped bring down the ruthless gangster Dutch Schultz with the intervention of some very unlikely allies. |
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