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Wild West Rick Miller |
Boastful Bill Longley: Cold-blooded Texas Killer He once boasted that he had killed 32 men, and legend has it that he was hanged three times. But was he a legendary gunfighter, or merely a cold-blooded murderer? |
Wild West Ben T. Traywick |
The Real Doc Holliday Southerner John Henry -- better known as Doc Holliday -- became a dentist, went West for his health and was soon transformed into a legendary killer. But just how deadly was he? |
Adventure September 2004 David Roberts |
K2 at 50: The Bitter Legacy This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of K2. But simmering beneath the official glory is a legacy of backstabbing and betrayal that would ultimately drive one climber to change the course of mountaineering history forever. |
Science News August 28, 2004 |
Oklahoma's Mound Builders Wore Fancy Stone Earrings Flashback to 1934: Stone earplugs from a Native American jeweler in Oklahoma... Bathysphere sets a new deep-sea record... Gamma rays split hydrogen atoms... |
World War II William Brooks |
Black Tuesday: The Struggle for a Bridge Too Far The fate of the embattled paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge rested with the men of the South Staffords. |
World War II August 25, 2004 Colonel William Wilson |
Ambitious Airborne Assault: Operation Market Garden It was hoped that Operation Market Garden would shorten the war, but the largest airborne operation of World War II failed in its main objectives. |
World War II August 25, 2004 David H. Lippman |
Carrier Franklin's Valiant Fight for Life Franklin's fire marshal, Lieutenant Stanley Graham, spoke for her whole crew: 'Boys, we got pressure in the lines, we got hoses. Let's get in there and save her.' |
World War II August 25, 2004 William B. Allmon |
USS Liscome Bay As the escort carrier Liscome Bay turned to launch its aircraft off Makin Atoll on November 24, 1943, Lt. Cmdr. Sunao Tabata of I-175 found himself presented with a target that submariners dream of. |
Vietnam August 24, 2004 Peter Kross |
The Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem Did the bloody downfall of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 put the United States on a slippery slope into a quagmire? |
Vietnam August 24, 2004 G.W. Frederickson |
Mined in the Mekong Delta When VC frogmen struck USS Westchester County, they inflicted the Navy's greatest single-incident combat loss of the war. |
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