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Mike Markowitz
Three hundred and eighty five men of Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s 20th Maine Regiment held the Union Army’s left flank…
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Mike Markowitz
Even for aircraft, faster is not always better. Some aircraft have achieved fame because of their exceptional low-speed flight characteristics.…
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Mike Markowitz
Superbly adapted to the desert, the single-humped Arabian camel was domesticated around 4000 B.C. for its meat, milk, and wool,…
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Mike Markowitz
It is a matter of odd historical fact that the last shot of the American Civil War was a blank…
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Mike Markowitz
“Warfare is…the one human activity from which women, with the most insignificant exceptions, have always and…
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Mike Markowitz
Unlike some armies, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) does not need to airlift equipment all over the globe. Israel’s wars…
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Mike Markowitz
The French phrase coup de main literally means “a strike of the hand.” In military jargon, it means “an offensive…
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Mike Markowitz
In 1919, the Versailles Treaty declared, “the manufacture and importation of aircraft, parts of aircraft, engines for aircraft, and parts…
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Mike Markowitz
In 1941, Friedrich von Doblhoff (1916-2000) a junior engineer at Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke (Vienna-Neustadt Aircraft Factory, which assembled Bf 109…
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Mike Markowitz
For the German Navy, facing war without its own aircraft carriers, the helicopter seemed promising as an observation platform and…