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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 ...
Army bombers for two weeks had tried to probe the fog-blanketed Aleutian Islands, find out what the Japs were up to after their first landing on westernmost Attu. Last week the murk lifted enough to ...
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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 aircraft for the Americans to capture.
Americans rebelling against the British government won an astonishing victory in the Battle of Sullivan’s Island near Charleston on June 28, 1776. This is the final article in a series about the ...
CHARLESTON HARBOR — The tall ship Spirit of South Carolina, masquerading as an 18th century British warship, sailed briskly along the beach at the southwest tip of Sullivan’s Island just before noon ...
The front page of the Deseret News on July 21, 1944, as the invasion of Guam began in the final year of World War II. World ...
SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park will host a two-day Carolina Day celebration Saturday and Sunday to mark the 250th anniversary of the Battle of ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – June 28 marks Carolina Day, the day when people across South Carolina remember the state’s part in America’s fight for freedom from British rule during the Revolutionary War.
SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) — On this day in 1776, a major battle took place during the Revolutionary War, prompting celebrations now of what’s known as “Carolina Day.” It’s the annual ...
George Nash’s Trailblazing Work on American Conservatism Turns 50 Keynesianism at 90 ‘Murder in the Skies’ Every Day’s a Full Moon at the Smithsonian’s American History Museum 250 years ago today, ...
The Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25 and 26, 1876, lasted barely a full day, but it would become one of the most famous, controversial and mysterious military engagements in American history.
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