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05/11/03 - History Game #9
Another great History Game! How many clues do you need to guess the historical figure?
04/27/03 - Photographs of the Vietnam War
A large compilation of photos about the Vietnam War, including combat action, life in the jungle, wounded, P.O.W.s, entertainers, tanks, helicopters, and ships.
04/13/03 - The Columbine Massacre
On April 20, 1999, in the suburban town of Littleton, Colorado, two high-school seniors, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, enacted an all-out assault on Columbine High School during the middle of the school day. Shooting guns and throwing bombs, the two boys killed twelve students and one teacher and injured many more.
04/06/03 - Strike Against Japan: Jimmy Doolittle's Raiders
Fifty-six years ago, Jimmy Doolittle's raiders carried out some historic firsts when their B-25s dropped the first bombs on Tokyo.
03/23/03 - P2V Neptune: Forgotten Warbird
Perhaps the Cold War's least-heralded aircraft, the Lockheed P2V Neptune has been largely overlooked by aviation historians.
03/09/03 - WWI: Massacre of the Innocents
One of the enduring legends of the Great War, the singing attacks of German students at the First Ypres, is a curious mixture of fact and self-serving fiction--a cover-up that became a cornerstone of Nazi mythology.
02/23/03 - Pandemonium Over Pilsen: The Forgotten Final Mission
During the Eighth Air Force’s last mission over Europe, members of the 324th Bomb Squadron became embroiled in a dispute with their commanding officer.
02/09/03 - Defending Port Moresby
At a time when the Japanese regarded his Bell P-39 as 'cold meat', Dick Suehr scored his first victory against a Zero. When he got to fly the Lockheed P-38, he did even better.
01/26/03 - Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
When America's WWI Ace of Aces Edward Rickenbacker became president of Eastern Air Lines, he said: "I will always keep in mind that I am in the greatest business in the world... and I can serve humanity more completely in my line of endeavor than in any other."
01/12/03 - The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a shot rang out. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, now lay sprawled on the balcony's floor. A gaping wound covered a large portion of his jaw and neck. A great man who had spent thirteen years of his life dedicating himself to nonviolent protest had been felled by a sniper's bullet.
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