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91Mathew B. Juan – Native American Hero of World War I
Sitting in the center of the dusty little Arizona town of Sacaton is a small park with a monument to its war dead. Little parks with monuments to those from the town who gave their lives in past wars are not...
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82The Greek Invasion of Turkey 1919
The Greek “invasion” had no opposition but the Turks had already decided to fight the difficult fight. The Greek government was in heaven, as the old dreams of the Greater Greece came to life. The...
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87How England and France Forced Greece to Enter WW1
King Constantine was married to Germany’s Wilhelm Kaiser's sister and decided to remain neutral in WW1. In effect, the advantage was given to Germany and Turkey. The King’s Prime Minister Venizelos...
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83Operation Drumbeat: Nazi U-boats Off the American Coast, 1942
Drumbeat, at least in theory, had been planned as far back as 1897. Germany had always been fascinated with attacking America, a land insulated and buffered by two oceans. There was a desire to “break”...
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81Japan's I-400 Super Sub with Seiran Aircraft & Their Last Missions in 1945
The I-14 sub- 400 ft long The submarine aircraft hangar The hangar closed and catapault Like Germany, Japan also had its few secret weapons. The most famous were the four super subs unlike the world had...
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77A Shameful Repetition of History: Japanese Interment Camps
The results of World War II are some of the most significant in history. One of the consequences of America's going to war with Japan, however, is often overlooked in many textbooks and unknown to numbers of...
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79World War 2 The Home Front (The Home Guard)
Britains Last line of defence against a German invasion during World War 2 were the Volunteers who joined the Home Guard, originally called the Local Defence Volunteers. The men who were aged between 41 and...
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81A Short History of the 17th Texas Cavalry
The 17th Texas Cavalry organized in late February or early March, 1862 from Counties in East Texas. Judge George Franklin Moore of Houston County was selected as the regimental commander. The men thereafter...
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83Captain James I Waddell - The Man Who Fought the Civil War in Alaska
According to the history books, the American Civil was a war between the Northern States and the Southern States with most of the states involved and most of the fighting taking place in the eastern half of...
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80The Republic of Texas Marine Corps
Were you aware that in the 1800s, before Texas became the 28th state in the United States, it was it's own country, with it's own form of government? It had everything including it's own military, which consisted of an Army, a Navy, and a Marine Corps.
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