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When you look at the Iowa-class battleships, in a way, you are looking at the ultimate in a surface combat platform. They are huge – about 45,000 tons — they carry nine 16-inch guns and have an array of other weapons, too, from Tomahawk cruise m…
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In 2019, a Japanese man traveled from Antwerp, Belgium, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to meet with a Jewish Rabbi at Shofuso, a Japanese house and garden in Philly. Though the two men had never met, their lives were decisively intertwined in 1940 b…
[brid video="115364" player="7965" title="Mighty Minute Carlos Hatchcock"]Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock III is a legend for a bunch of reasons.
Larry Thorne enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private in 1954, but he was already a war hero. That's because his real name was Lauri Törni, and he had been fighting the Soviets for much of his adult life. Born in Finland in 1919, Törni e…
In 2012, Britain's National Army Museum organized a contest asking its patrons which of Britain's historical enemies was their greatest foe? The answer turned out to be the man who, almost through sheer force of will, and despite a lack of trained…
