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Where Wooden Baseball Bats are Born
Louisville, Kentucky is still the home to the baseball bat.
This Piloted Bomb Was Intended for a One-way Flight
The Japanese Ohka was designed specifically for suicide missions.
Brilliant or Preposterous? A Look at the Duplex Drive (DD) Amphibious Tank
You might think that water and Sherman tanks don't mix. You might be right.
Lies and False Promises Left California Indians With Little of the Mission Lands They’d Farmed
In the 1830s Mexico decreed lands once owned by the Catholic Church available for private ownership—but few Mission Indians benefited.
Although Too Late to Change the Civil War, This Rebel Victory Gave Florida a Slice of History
In the waning days of the Civil War, a hodgepodge of green troops got their first taste of action.
Through Custer’s Eyes: Roam Through Six Civil War-Era Haunts of the Famed General
Enjoy a slice of central Louisiana, as the Boy General and, yes, William Sherman once did.
Their Division Received the Most WWII Medals of Honor in Europe. But They Considered Themselves ‘Grunts’
From North Africa to the liberation of Adolf Hitler's lair in Berchtesgaden, Germany, the men of the 3rd ID slogged through it all.
These Aircraft Have Saved Men on the Ground
For more than a century aviators have gone in harm’s way in the service of frontline troops.