James Forrestal was born on February 15, 1892 in Matteawan, New York. In his early life he attended local schools

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The Hull Note, or the Outline of Proposed Basis for Agreement Between the United States and Japan as the communication

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I almost hate to say this, but The Great Escape is actuallly a *fun* movie.  It's loosely based on a series of real

The Battle of Wake Island Wake Island is a small but strategically important island in the Pacific Ocean. In 1899,

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You'd think that a film about developing a one-off weapon that defies all logic would be incredibly un-interesting, right?  Wrong!! The

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The Japanese military went into the Second World War armed with a family of Mauser based bolt action rifles, collectively

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The 1940 US Census was the sixteenth census taken by the United States Census Bureau and was taken during the

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The battle of Leningrad was the bloodiest and one of the longest sieges in the history of warfare. It is

Ira Hayes was born on January 12th, 1923 and passed away on January 24th, 1955. He was a Pima Native

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The fall of Singapore is, even today considered one of the biggest defeats of the British Army and it is

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First off, I have to offer up a humble apology to the makers of this film, Lost Airmen of Buchenwald.  They