The Korean War featured the first jets the U.S. military flew in combat, but not everything was new and shiny. Some aircraft ...
During the Second World War, however, African Americans found opportunities ... bereft of any formal combat training, manned a machine gun, shooting down several Japanese planes.
"This is the most sustained combat that the US Navy has seen since World War II — easily ... Pentagon recently extended its deployment for a second time. Munitions have cost some $1 billion ...
Archival images from the last weeks of World War II, taken by an American Army combat photographer during a push across eastern France into southern Germany ...
Pan Macmillan; £18.99 The last eight months of the war in Europe were among the bloodiest and most destructive. Adolf Hitler ...
Members of 3AMC at Nadzab base prepare supplies for delivery to forward areas on the ground in New Guinea, May 1944. The men ...
The beginning of the 20th century was marked by World War I ... The majority saw little combat. Still, worthy contributions were made to America's war effort and one outstanding example was ...
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. Pp. xvi, 175. Illus., maps, append., notes, biblio., index. $19.95 paper. ISBN:0742544826. Combining evidence from untapped ...
freed from the chains of the Russian Empire and in the terrible conditions of the most violent conflict Europe has experienced since the Second World War, embraces an idea that lies at the very ...