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The United States has been in a conflict in 93% of it's existence.
Believe it or Not: Since Its Birth The USA Has Only Had 17 Years of Peace
Since the birth of the USA on July 4, 1776 with the Declaration of Independence, the country has been at war for 93% of its existence. It all started
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But she did not find just any old gun, she found a Mark VI Webley .455, a gun given to officers of the British and commonwealth forces from 1910 until 1940.
WW1 Gun Handed To Police in Firearms Surrender Campaign
Although Akehurst did not say precisely how many guns and weapons have been turned in her area thus far, she did say that the program works well
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Tommy Prince Was So Quiet, Sometimes Instead Of Killing Germans He Would Steal Their Shoes
This is the story of Tommy Prince, a Native Indian Canadian soldier who left an indelible mark during World War II due to his Bravery.
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Auschwitz: 40% of German Fourteen-Year-Olds Don’t Know What it Was
A recent study by the Körber Institute has revealed that fewer than half of the 14 to 16-year-old German students surveyed realized that the infamous Auschwitz
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A passenger on the helicopter managed to take a picture of the snake, and although an exact measurement is impossible to make from just a photograph, it is clearly a remarkably large serpent.
The WWII Ace Whose Helicopter was Attacked by the World’s Largest Snake
Colonel Remy Van Lierde would be worth studying for his incredible military exploits alone—the fact that he claimed later in life to have encountered a
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Before Japan surrendered to end WW2, the US armed forces ordered over 1 million Purple Heart medals in anticipation of a difficult land invasion. That stock is still being used today.
Purple Heart Stockpile: The WWII Medals Still Being Issued
By the end of the war, over one million wounded or dead US servicemen from the war received the Purple Hearts. During WWII, the United States Military
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After all, almost the same amount of time has passed between 1940-1865 as between 2018-1945
An Interesting Question Did People Look Back at the Civil War The Way we Look at WW2 Today?
A question that is interesting to ponder is whether other eras looked at past conflicts the way we look at World War Two (WWII). After all, almost the
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The strategic bombing campaign during WWII cost the lives of roughly 160,000 Allied airmen and 33,700 planes in the European theater alone.
A Reminder of Sacrifices Made: 25 Images Of Bombers That Didn’t Make It Home
The strategic bombing campaign during WWII cost the lives of roughly 160,000 Allied airmen and 33,700 planes in the European theater alone. We have
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The Face of Crimean War in over 35 Magnificent 160-year-old Photos
After a longtime peace acquired during the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Europe experienced a relatively peaceful period of history. Foundations of that
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Amazingly, the B-17’s crew was nowhere in sight. Not even their dead bodies remained in the bomber.
Phantom Fortress: The Crewless Landing of a B-17
On November 23, 1944, a Royal Air Force antiaircraft unit stationed outside Cortonburg, Belgium observed a B-17 Flying Fortress flying towards them. The
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