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View this email [online]( if it doesn't display correctly Join the War History Online forum! On our very own forum you can engage in conversation with fellow readers, discuss the news, react to our articles and share your experiences. [Click to join our forum!]( Top stories of today [The D-Day Piping Legend Bill Millin: Did Not Flinch as Snipers Shot at Him, He Kept Playing]( [The D-Day Piping Legend Bill Millin: Did Not Flinch as Snipers Shot at Him, He Kept Playing]( Mortars blasted the day away and hell rained from the sky. The sea quickly took on the color of crimson as the bodies of the… [Read more »]( [People Forget China’s conflict with Japan Cost at Least Ten Million Lives]( [People Forget China’s conflict with Japan Cost at Least Ten Million Lives]( Joseph Stalin once said: “The death of a man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic.” Sadly, history seems to have… [Read more »]( [The Military at Christmas, Violence and Fun]( [The Military at Christmas, Violence and Fun]( War is difficult under normal circumstances but becomes even more trying when the soldiers start to think about how they’re missing time with loved ones,… [Read more »]( [Tuskegee Airman to be Returned to Arlington National Cemetery USA]( [Tuskegee Airman to be Returned to Arlington National Cemetery USA]( On December 23rd, 1944, twenty-four-year-old Tuskegee Airman Lawrence Dickson took off in his Mustang P-51 on a reconnaissance mission over the Austro-Italian border. On his… [Read more »]( [The Heroic Story of the German Officer from the film “The Pianist”]( [The Heroic Story of the German Officer from the film “The Pianist”]( In 1950, the famous Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman received a letter from a Jewish man. “I am writing to you in my name and on… [Read more »]( [Japanese Fighter Pilot Who, after Pearl Harbor, Crash-Landed on Hawaiian Island & Terrorized the Residents]( [Japanese Fighter Pilot Who, after Pearl Harbor, Crash-Landed on Hawaiian Island & Terrorized the Residents]( December 7, 1941, is remembered as the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, but it is also the day the Niihau Incident began. The incident involved… [Read more »]( [George Ray Tweed: The Man Who Evaded The Japanese On Guam For Two Years]( [George Ray Tweed: The Man Who Evaded The Japanese On Guam For Two Years]( In times of war, it is almost a given that men will push themselves far beyond their former limits to commit feats of extraordinary courage… [Read more »]( [Six Top Secret Military Operations of the 20th Century]( [Six Top Secret Military Operations of the 20th Century]( Secrecy is an important part of military operations. And while there are many missions we will never know about, here are six top secret missions… [Read more »]( [The Tupolev TU-95RT – Scourge of the Cold War]( [The Tupolev TU-95RT – Scourge of the Cold War]( In 1970, the Soviet Naval Aviation decided that it was time to prepare its crews for transatlantic flights, and Cuban missions were a large part… [Read more »]( [The Cool Looking German Sd Kfz Series in Images]( [The Cool Looking German Sd Kfz Series in Images]( Known as the Leichter Panzerspähwagen series, this was a group of German light-armored vehicles intended for use in reconnaissance missions during the Second World War.… [Read more »]( [Join Our Forum!]( Timera, 901 N. Pitt St., Suite 325, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, United States You may [unsubscribe]( or [change your contact details]( at any time. [Powered by:](