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4 days ago · In some cases, the newest war movies depict life on the battlefield. A couple of them examine the impact of war once the soldier comes home. Those examples offer intensity of an entirely different sort. Vote for your favorites on this list of new war movies.
2 days ago · On the morning of 2 March 1968, while patrolling 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Tan Son Nhut Air Base near the small village of Quoi Xuan to locate VC rocket sites, Company C, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment walked into an ambush losing 48 killed in just 8 minutes.
2 days ago · The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as the Chosin Reservoir Campaign or the Battle of Lake Changjin (Korean: 장진호 전투; Hanja: 長津湖戰鬪; RR: Jangjinho jeontu; MR: Changjinho chŏnt'u), was an important battle in the Korean War.
4 days ago · Following the end of the war, the surviving volunteers received the Medal of Honor. Just over 162 years later, two others are slated to receive the distinction: George Wilson and Philip Shadrach. Illustration of the Great Locomotive Chase.
2 days ago · The Tang dynasty ( / tɑːŋ /, [6] [tʰǎŋ]; Chinese: 唐朝 [a] ), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
4 days ago · In an undated 40-second video posted by Yuyuan Tantian to Weibo, China’s version of X, a US Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon (a maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft) can be seen dropping several objects, one of which reportedly fell into the South China Sea, near the Second Thomas Shoal.
2 days ago · The great tank battle of Kursk took place in 1943, when the Germans mounted a huge attack on the Soviet army with a force f some 900,000 men, 2,700 of their most fearsome tanks, 10,000 artillery pieces and 2,000 aircraft.
