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The strange World War II invasion of Kiska Island
In August 1943, American and Canadian troops landed on Kiska in the Aleutian Islands expecting another brutal fight against ...
What were the Japs doing in their newly won footholds in the western Aleutians, the bleak little islands of Attu and Kiska? If the U.S. Army & Navy knew, they did not say. So the only news was from ...
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How one missing Japanese 'Zero' fighter saved the US in the Pacific War
After a successful raid in Alaska, the Japanese fleet returned southward—unaware that it had left behind a fully intact ...
To play the Waterloo Interactive Battle Simulator, you must first choose whether to play as Napoleon (French side) or as Wellington (Allied side). The computer will play as your opponent. The game is ...
On Attu the fighting was over except for the last cleanup, and U.S. fighting men were getting soldiers’ burial. TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod (one of nine correspondents officially commended for ...
NARRATOR:The Wars of Independence. The Battle of Bannockburn 1314. The Scottish Army are here to take back Stirling, the last castle in Scotland held by English soldiers. And Edward the Second and his ...
As a soldier, General Ulysses S. Grant had depended upon the able assistance of Ely S. Parker, a Seneca Indian. As president, Grant tried with little success to ensure peaceful relations with Native ...
Harold II was crowned King of England in January 1066, but he had not been the only contender for the English throne. On September 25th that year, Harold fought off a bloody invasion from the ...
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