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History
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July 4, 2025
The USS Indianapolis: A Final Mission and Naval Tragedy
After delivering the atomic bomb to Tinian, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed and sank in 12 minutes — leading to the deadliest sea disaster in U.S. Navy history and a decades-long fight to clear her captain's name.
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January 8, 2025
Key Decisions That Led America into Vietnam
Two bookends pressed America into Vietnam: the post-WWII decision to bankroll the French in Indochina, and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that handed LBJ a blank check.
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January 3, 2025
How French Failures in Vietnam Foretold the U.S. Struggles
The French had ninety-six years to learn lessons in Indochina — and lost anyway. Every misread that broke them at Dien Bien Phu, the U.S. would repeat a decade later.
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December 26, 2024
Operation Commando Lava: The U.S. Attempt to Sabotage with Soap
In 1967 the Pentagon decided that if monsoon mud slowed the enemy, the answer was to make more mud — by dropping nineteen-and-a-half tons of detergent on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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November 20, 2024
Celebrating the Legacy of the UH-1 Huey
From Bell Model 204 to the modern UH-1Y — the most recognized helicopter in the world and the doctrine of air mobility it carried into Ia Drang and beyond.
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July 9, 2024
Aviation's Leap in WWI: How Airplanes Evolved During the War
From flimsy reconnaissance kites to synchronized-gun fighters, bombers, and the first aircraft carrier — four years that built modern military aviation.