Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son" is a serious protest song, but oversaturation in movies stripped the power and meaning from the anti-war anthem.
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Hundreds of thousands were killed and injured when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima And Nagasaki, but here's a look at the stories of 12 survivors.
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The Battle of Antietam had a profound impact on the rest of the war, but it's more well known for its other title: the deadliest day of the Civil War.
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From prison sentences to political comebacks, here’s what happened to key Confederate military and political leaders in the years after the Civil War ended.
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1986 saw regime shifts, a nuclear meltdown, a space shuttle explosion, successful surrogacy, Oprah going national, and other events that forever changed us.
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War is hell, no matter where it's fought, but the Pacific Front of WWII came with the added horrors of tropical disease, malnutrition, shark attacks, and worse.
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The Vietnam War was tragic for many reasons, including how convoluted it was. These infamous events further eroded the public's trust in the U.S. government.
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Between advancing Allied forces with a thirst for revenge and a chronic lack of essential resources, the end of WWII was a living hell for Germans in Europe.
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The fact that a nuclear weapon can go missing is somewhat shocking, but these so called "broken arrow" incidents have happened multiple times. Here's how.
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Whether caused by inept leadership, overconfidence, or opponents that simply fought better, these military victories were also catastrophic for the losing side.
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Dozens of men died when the USS Tang was felled by its own torpedo, but a few survived thanks to quick thinking, courage, and more than a little luck.
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Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the tragic war between the two countries has continued for over 1,300 days — with a tragic toll.
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Opened in 1943, Los Baños was one of several prisoner of war camps operated by the Japanese in the Philippines in the final year of World War II.
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Months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. answered with a daring plan to send American planes into Japanese airspace to attack Tokyo.
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B-17 combat during World War II required the combined might of men and machines, but enemy fire was far from the only danger on the "Flying Fortresses."
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Underground resistance fighters helped win World War II, and the most wanted resistant fighter was known as The White Mouse. Her real name was Nancy Wake.
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Well before the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, American fighter aces were successfully downing Japanese planes in the skies over a beleaguered China.
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Just one year before America withdrew from the Vietnam War, the U.S. Air Force made multiple desperate attempts to find and rescue its navigator.
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In the final days of WWII, an extraordinary battle to liberate prisoners from Austria's Castle Itter took place, and it was aided by an unlikely alliance.
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The last century or so of modern history has been extremely bloody, and these world leaders were responsible for massacres that scarred nations for generations.
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The Cold War superpowers held nuclear arsenals that could be launched with the push of a button. It turns out that the Russians had an automated button-pusher.
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Historically, life under communist rule is often marked by staggering death counts, oppression, starvation, and loss of freedoms, all in the quest for power.
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Numerous residents of the USSR tried to escape to the West during the Cold War, despite the Iron Curtain, and some of them were astonishingly inventive.
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In the more desperate times of war, the Allied and Axis forces looked to create unique weapons to give them an advantage, but not all of them worked out.
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After World War II, German scientist Wernher von Braun went from developing Nazi superweapons to spearheading NASA's Saturn program.
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U.S. Civil War battles and skirmishes took place in several states, but one of the original 13 colonies became the state where the most battles occurred.
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War is an unfortunate constant all over the world, and with it comes various kinds of military units, some far more elite and deadly than others — like SEAL Team Six.
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