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He took a history degree at Central Washington in 1971 and a commission the following year, and never stopped reading. In 2003 he drove...
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He took a history degree at Central Washington in 1971 and a commission the following year, and never stopped reading. In 2003 he drove...
Born in San Francisco in 1940 while his father was on tour, on screen at three months old, a child star in Hong Kong...
Patton designed his own uniforms, wore riding breeches and high boots, carried ivory-handled revolvers, and fined men who turned up without a necktie —...
The 100,000-ton aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is the 8th Nimitz-class ship to enter a refueling overhaul, and she starts 3.5 years behind...
At Truk in 1944 she became the only Iowa to fire her main guns at enemy warships. Off Vietnam she fired 5,688 16-inch shells...
Each A-150 or 'Super Yamato' battleship gun weighed about 227 metric tons and fired a 1,950-kilogram shell; a twin turret ran 2,780 tons. Japan...
Humiliated before the Privy Council in 1774, Franklin sailed home a rebel in 1775, helped edit the Declaration, won France for the Revolution and...
West Point 1909, the 1912 Olympics, II Corps after Kasserine, Seventh Army across Sicily, a year sidelined for slapping two soldiers, a fake army...
Built to hunt Soviet submarines, 24 of the ships got 61-cell vertical launchers in the 1980s and 1990s, and the Ticonderoga cruisers borrowed the...
Floated out unfinished in 1950 so USS Missouri could be repaired, torn loose by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 and studied as a $178 million...