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Private Raymond Nosaka raced to the base of a live oak tree in the mosquito- and alligator-infested interior of Cat Island, nine miles offshore from Gulfport, Mississippi, in the Gulf [...]

IN THE FIRST HOUR OF JULY 8, 1945, six-year-old Rodney Rasmussen was startled awake in his bed in Salina, Utah, by the unmistakable rhythm of machine gun fire a mere [...]

THE B-17'S FOUR ENGINES hummed in Sergeant Elmer Ruschman's ears on the morning of June 6,1944, as he wondered whether the ominous clouds concealing the English Channel below would lift [...]

They had had to cover only 25 miles, but during the parched summer of 1926 teamsters leading horses laden with 80 boxes of dynamite and 500 barrels of black powder [...]

IN THE DARKEST HOURS of many nights from April 1943 to May 1945, people living on the outskirts of Orangeburg. New York, awoke to the heavy footfalls of soldiers on [...]

After eight hours in the black-and-white world above Mount Rainier's tree line, where even in August all about was snow and rock. Hazard Stevens stared down into the crevasse separating [...]

THE WINDS ABOVE THE DARK ALASKA COASTLINE WERE TWICE AS STRONG AS FORECAST WHEN CAPTAIN KENNETH DUVAL REPORTED HIS DOUGLAS C-124A GLOBEMASTER II'S POSITION OVER MIDDLETON ISLAND JUST BEFORE 8 [...]

ON AUGUST 5, 1944, Manya Hartmayer, a 21-year-old German-born Jewish woman who had survived five Nazi concentration camps, stepped down from a westbound Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railcar in Oswego, [...]

A few chilly days after Christmas 1917, the men of the U.S. Army's 415th Aero Construction Squadron crept through foggy woods, all eyes out for their elusive enemy's signature dull-gray [...]

On a ridgetop near Nhpum Ga, Burma, the stench of animals rotting in the oppressive jungle heat was so strong, soldiers of the second battalion, 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) dubbed [...]

IN THE EARLY EVENING SHADOWS of Colorado's Sawatch Range, I pull off the stretch of U.S. Route 24 known as the 10th Mountain Division Memorial Highway and step out to [...]

ON A CRISP FEBRUARY MORNING, I stroll along El Prado, the palm- and portico-lined pedestrian pathway that gives San Diego's Balboa Park its classic Old-World charm. Most of my fellow [...]

In the cool midnight sky some 3,500 feet above the jungles of eastern Laos, Captain Errol Loving leaned out the narrow cockpit of a black Cessna O-2 Skymaster, scanning the [...]

JUST SEVEN WEEKS AFTER VOLUNTEERING to lead the army's Parachute Test Platoon, First Lieutenant William T. Ryder stepped out of a Douglas C-33 on August 16, 1940, and floated 1,500 [...]

THE WHISTLE OF INCOMING SHELLS startled gunners of the 249th Coast Artillery Corps Regiment from their bunks at Fort Stevens, Oregon, in the closing minutes of Sunday, June 21, 1942. [...]

ESTABLISHED IN 1891, Navy Yard Puget Sound was the only West Coast facility equipped to dry-dock battleships and aircraft carriers when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor 50 years later. In [...]

The article offers travel tips for exploring the historical sites and remnants of the Desert Training Center (DTC) in the Mojave Desert, providing insights into the training grounds, the challenges soldiers endured, and the impact of the DTC on military history.

AS I DIP MY PADDLE IN THE GLASSY MORNING WATER of Resurrection Bay, the mossy remains of an old wooden pier emerge in the foreground of Caines Head, whose rocky [...]

After crossing miles of desolate yellow landscape in southeastern Washington state, I halted at the base of a 120-foot behemoth, an enormous edifice of skillfully laid gray bricks holding the [...]

TO THE CASUAL EYE, Bayview, Idaho, betrays no hint that the quiet hamlet with fewer than 500 residents once had as a neighbor Farragut Naval Training Station, the second-largest such [...]

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum ... ... birthplace of ecological restoration, is an airy 1,260-acre recreated primal landscape tucked into the suburban sprawl encircling Wisconsin's second-largest city. Before Europeans came, [...]

In September 1873 seven prospectors from Yakima, in central Washington Territory, struck gold at the junction of Swauk and Williams creeks, in the foothills east of the Cascade Range. Within [...]

... an 18,800-acre haven for North America's largest land mammal, occupies pine-pocked grassland rolling west from Northwest Montana's snow-capped Mission Mountains. Three centuries ago, the future United States was home [...]

The white-capped world into which Hazard Stevens and Philemon Beecher Van Trump clambered is disappearing. Ice cloaked the Cascade Range long before Mount Rainier's volcanic cone rose 500,000 years ago. [...]

T/4 Hoichi 'Bob' Kubo U.S. Army Distinguished Service Cross Saipan, Northern Marianas July 26, 1944On July 26, 1944, Technician Fourth Grade Hoichi 'Bob' Kubo stepped from the jungle on the [...]

Robert Lee Hatcher's 1906 discovery of gold along Willow Creek in the Talkeetna Mountains, some 50 miles northeast of present-day Anchorage, Alaska, drew hundreds of prospectors to pursue fortune amid [...]

The article offers information on the 13-year project for the construction of a 52-mile passage through the Glacier National Park in Montana. It discusses the problem on access to the park during the early years before the road construction, the creation of the Glacier National Park in 1910, proposal for the road construction project by assistant to the Secretary of the Interior Stephen T. Mather, and challenges faced during the road construction project. INSET: Which Way Up?.

... is a Victorian fantasy nestled in the blond sands of a semi-arid peninsula whose narrow neck meets the mainland just south of San Diego, California. In 1885, entrepreneurs Elisha [...]

... whose name is French for 'ear hanging' and is pronounced 'pond aw ray,' is a trace of Glacial Lake Missoula, created when the last Ice Age waned, inundating the [...]

In 1900, looking to cash in on the north-central Washington gold rush, John William Molson of Montreal's prominent brewing and banking family financed from afar the development of a town [...]

The article reports on U.S. Army planners turned 2,000 acres of quiet New York farmland into the busiest military embarkation camp in the world. Topics include Major Drew Eberson of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told property owners that under the War Powers Act, the army would be seizing 1,365 acres of land in order to build Camp Shanks, an army debarkation camp; and Troops began arriving by train from all across the nation when the camp opened in Orangetown, Rockland County in 1943.

Marvin G. Shields U.S. Navy Seabees Medal of Honor Vietnam June 10,1965 In the waning minutes of June 9, 1965, the sound of incoming mortar shells broke the calm near [...]

The article discusses the efforts of mountaineers Hazard Stevens and Philemon Beecher Van Trump to become the first humans to ascend to the summit of Mount Rainier in 1870. The article also examines the life and times of Stevens, including lessons he learned from his father, Isaac Ingalls Stevens, and their service during the U.S. Civil War.

The article profiles the U.S. military program Operation Colony Glacier, which aims to recover the remains of lost U.S. military servicemen that were killed in the November 22, 1952, crash of a C-124 Military Air Transport Service (MATS) 1107 plane near Anchorage, Alaska.

The article discusses the U.S. Army's 415th Aero Construction Squadron, which worked in the woods of Olympic Peninsula to cut timber that would be used to construct war airplanes for Allied aviators serving in World War I.

The article reviews the exhibition "Service Ink" at the White River Valley Museum in Auburn, Washington between June and November 2015, which featured the stories and images of military-inspired tattoos of Washington state residents and natives.

The article focuses on the American Lake Veterans Golf Course in Lakewood, Washington, a golf course used by disabled war veterans. The topics discussed include the establishment of the golf course by the Veteran Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, experiences of Aaron Boyle, a war veteran and golf player, efforts of non-profit organization Friends of the American Lake Veterans Golf Course to raise funds for the golf course and use of computerized simulator and ParaGolfer cart by players.

The article provides information on Tappan, a hamlet in New York. The hamlet was established in the 1600s by Dutch farmers who had traded the Tappan Indians for land 15 miles up the Hudson River from Manhattan. The hamlet's first public house was opened by merchant Casparus Mabie. General George Washington occasionally quartered down the street during the Revolution. British intelligence officer Major John André was hanged in Tappan.

The article focuses on the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific on Oahu, Hawaii which holds the remains of more than 49,000 U.S. military veterans. The area was called by ancient Hawaiians as hill of sacrifice. Guns were mounted on Puowaina's rim by Kamehameha of Maui to discourage seaborne attacks. The cemetery holds the remains of casualties from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars.

The article offers information on the history of the mining town of Liberty, Washington. Emphasis is given to topics such as the gold mining of prospector Thomas Meagher, the abandonment of the town following development of the logging industry, and a U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of residents evicted by the Golden Thunderbird Mining Company.

The article discusses about the Japanese-American soldier Hoichi “Bob” Kubo and his heroic act in 1944 when they were interpreting captured documents and questioning prisoners on Saipan. He was one of the several Japanese-American cave flushers tasked with coaxing surrenders from the holdouts. His heroic act is depicted in Cave Flushing, a sculpture in the National Museum of American History

The article focuses on works of Marvin G. Shields, U.S. Navy Seabee, who was awarded with the Medal of Honor for his duty in the Vietnam War. It mentions Shields assisted Charles Williams, acting commander of the Green Berets. It also mentions former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson described Shields as "a new kind of fighting man" while presenting medal to Shields' widow and 2-year-old daughter in September 1966.