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Don’t Blame Billy the Kid’s Mom for His Outlaw Lifestyle—He Was Always Going to Be Bad

Catherine McCarty Antrim did all she could to protect and raise both of her sons—Billy, the future outlaw, and Joe, the future forgotten brother.

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Killer Instinct: How One Man Taught U.S. Rangers to Fight Dirty in WWII

Photo of a Pashtun soldier guarding the Khyber Pass road from Pakistan to the Afghanistan border. | Location: Khyber Pass Valley, NW Frontier, Pakistan.

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How This Subterranean Logistics Base in Afghanistan Bedeviled Soviet Invaders

Photo of astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible.

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Yes, Buzz Aldrin Walked on the Moon But We Asked Him About His Fighter Jock Days

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If You Like the B-17s in Masters of the Air, You’ll Love These Movies

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What If the Nazis Had Actually Built the Horten HO-229 Jet Flying Wing?

The Horten Ho-229 has been the subject of more speculation and myths than any other World War II airplane.

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What If Britain Had Made Peace With Hitler?

Col. Dave Severance, Company Commander of Easy Company of the 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division, became associated with a historic moment in American history on Feb. 23, 1945, when he responded to orders from his battalion commander to send a patrol to Mount Suribachi, the highest summit on the island described by Marine Lt. Gen. Holland M. “Howlin’ Mad” Smith as a “grim, smoking rock.” Following orders from the battalion commander, the platoon hoisted an American flag on the summit. But it wasn’t the famed image captured by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal. The Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, upon seeing the first flag raised on Mount Suribachi, wanted to keep it as a memento. Thus a second larger flag was raised to replace it, which Rosenthal went on to document to much acclaim. (USMC)

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What If the Marines Had Skipped Iwo Jima?

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What If Hitler Had Defeated the Soviet Union?

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What If the U.S. Had Invaded a Japanese Home Island?

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Buffalo Bill’s Tours of Italy and the ‘Spaghetti Western’ Inspired Replica Old West Firearms

Rifles and revolvers made by Uberti, Pietta, Pedersoli and other Italian firms remain popular.

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How to Build Royce Williams’ MiG-Killing Panther

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The Workhorse of the Berlin Airlift, the Douglas C-47 Saw Service Through Vietnam

Photo of, author Paul Ingevaldson working on an M18 Field Artillery Digital Automatic Computer (FADAC) used for gun targeting in Vietnam.

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The FADAC Was Used to Calculate Artillery Firing Data. Was it One of the First Personal Computers?

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Bullard Rifles Were Popular, But Were Too Expensive and Took Too Long to Make

HistoryNet Archives: Best U.S. General?

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The Man Who Saved Korea

Matthew B. Ridgway, who brought a beaten Eighth Army back from disaster in 1951, was a thinking—and fighting—man’s soldier.

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Omar Bradley, the General’s General

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Admiral Raymond A. Spruance: Modest Victor of Midway

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Patton and the Battle of the Bulge: ‘As soon as you’re through with me, I can attack the day after tomorrow morning’

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George Washington Needed to Keep His Spies Hidden. So He Financed a Secret Lab For Invisible Ink.

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In 1807 a French Officer Field-Tested an Artillery Tactic That Remained Decisive for More Than a Century

The breakthrough came during the Battle of Friedland, the victory that decided the War of the Fourth Coalition in Napoleon’s favor.

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Don’t Blame Billy the Kid’s Mom for His Outlaw Lifestyle—He Was Always Going to Be Bad

Killer Instinct: How One Man Taught U.S. Rangers to Fight Dirty in WWII

How This Subterranean Logistics Base in Afghanistan Bedeviled Soviet Invaders

Yes, Buzz Aldrin Walked on the Moon But We Asked Him About His Fighter Jock Days

If You Like the B-17s in Masters of the Air, You’ll Love These Movies

Our Podcast

This Week in History

What If…?

What If the Nazis Had Actually Built the Horten HO-229 Jet Flying Wing?

What If Britain Had Made Peace With Hitler?

What If the Marines Had Skipped Iwo Jima?

What If Hitler Had Defeated the Soviet Union?

What If the U.S. Had Invaded a Japanese Home Island?

Weapons & Gear

Buffalo Bill’s Tours of Italy and the ‘Spaghetti Western’ Inspired Replica Old West Firearms

How to Build Royce Williams’ MiG-Killing Panther

The Workhorse of the Berlin Airlift, the Douglas C-47 Saw Service Through Vietnam

The FADAC Was Used to Calculate Artillery Firing Data. Was it One of the First Personal Computers?

Bullard Rifles Were Popular, But Were Too Expensive and Took Too Long to Make

HistoryNet Archives: Best U.S. General?

The Man Who Saved Korea

Omar Bradley, the General’s General

Admiral Raymond A. Spruance: Modest Victor of Midway

Patton and the Battle of the Bulge: ‘As soon as you’re through with me, I can attack the day after tomorrow morning’

George Washington Needed to Keep His Spies Hidden. So He Financed a Secret Lab For Invisible Ink.

Embattled Banner: The True History of the Confederate Flag

What If Hitler Had Won World War II?

Sid Cotton’s Air Force was an early ‘eye in the sky’ for Britain’s Intelligence Service

Haunted by the Dead: Grave Digging in WWII was a Job No Soldier Wanted