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The Douglas X-3 Stiletto
Aviation enthusiasts who started out building plastic models the 1950s likely remember the sleek, shapely designs they just to find for their collections. Among the most sought-after were the...
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How The Vietnam War Changed People’s Views About Napalm
.image-13788715 { max-height: 100%; --left: 43.83%; --top: 47.20%; } The jellied gasoline concoction created by Harvard scientist Louis Fieser to help defeat the fascists in World War II as part of...
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The Pratt & Whitney R-2800: Piston-Engine Perfection
.image-13789741 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.00%; --top: 50.00%; } The Pratt & Whitney R-2800 was the most remarkable piston aircraft engine ever built. This compact 18-cylinder, twin-row radial...
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Showcasing the Vietnam War’s Jeeps, Tanks, Trucks and Artillery
This excellently illustrated book is a guide to American vehicles and heavy weapons used by the Army and Marine Corps between 1965 and 1973 when ground combat units were in Vietnam. Vehicles &...
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This Japanese Sub Sank in 1942 — Now You Can Take a Virtual Tour
Recreational divers aren’t allowed to explore the Japanese submarine I-124, resting on the seafloor 150 feet below the Indian Ocean’s surface in waters northwest of Darwin, Australia. Designated a war...
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The ‘Nazi War Machine’ Wasn’t Actually That Mechanized
Back in 1868, a British company called J. Whitaker & Sons began producing an annual compendium of statistical information about the world; Whitaker’s Almanack has been published ever since, and...
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My Grandpa Owned a Radioactive Souvenir From the Manhattan Project. Was This...
This Footlocker question comes from World War II’s associate editor, Kirstin Fawcett. Q: My grandfather, Howard Fawcett, a chemical engineer working on contract with DuPont, was present at the...
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James Holland on How Google Maps Is Revealing D-Day’s Remaining Secrets
.image-13783762 { max-height: 100%; --left: 61.37%; --top: 51.67%; } I’m writing this fresh from Normandy, where I attended a street-naming ceremony for the Sherwood Rangers, a British armored...
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This Japanese Fire Arrow Was a Deadly Game Changer for Pirates and Samurai Alike
.image-13790829 { max-height: 100%; --left: 56.81%; --top: 51.44%; } East meets West in this innovative Japanese fire arrow known as the bo-hiya. The fire arrow is a basic projectile that found use...
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The FADAC Was Used to Calculate Artillery Firing Data. Was it One of the...
The next time you talk to someone of a younger generation about the war, you can rightfully tell them that we actually used computers in Vietnam. It was my job to repair them. I believe the FADAC...
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Flight of Fancy, Doomed From the Start
.image-13795142 { max-height: 100%; --left: 49.66%; --top: 37.75%; } On October 5, 1869, just more than four years after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House and 34 years before the...
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Global Cooling
.image-13797363 { max-height: 100%; --left: 59.59%; --top: 50.40%; } In the 19th century, winter ice, cut from the frozen ponds, lakes and rivers of the American North, was transported around the...
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