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The Seeds of Resentment: World War Two Series Part 1

Sergeant Henry N. Gunther of the 313th Infantry. He had been demoted to private after censors caught him writing home that the war was a mistake. The Army restored his rank posthumously. He died at 10:59 a.m. on November 11, 1918.

His name...

10 days ago

Why the Best Surgeons in 1847 Were Completely Wrong.

On the morning of March 29, 1847, the Mexican garrison at Veracruz walked out of the city and stacked their muskets. The American flag went up over the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa later that day. Inside the captured city, in a hospital imp...

18 days ago

How an American Submarine "Sank" a Japanese Train.

At 1:47 in the morning on July 23, 1945, a sixteen-car Japanese train hit a hand-built pressure switch wedged under the rails on the coast of Karafuto Prefecture, on the southern end of Sakhalin Island. The boiler blew. Pieces of the locomo...

22 days ago

The Winter War That Cost the British More Men Than the Battle for New York

On January 20, 1777, in the cold of a New Jersey afternoon, four hundred New Jersey farmers and fifty Pennsylvania riflemen waded into the Millstone River with the water up to their waists. Ice rode the current. On the far bank stood five...

a month ago

The American Who Lost Every Ship He Built and Saved the Revolution

On the night of October 11, 1776, the American fleet on Lake Champlain was finished. Eleven of sixteen vessels were sunk, captured, or burned. The water around Valcour Island, a slim ridge of rock between the New York shore and the deep l...

a month ago

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