Against the Odds
Against the Odds
Against the Odds
Against the Odds
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Due to their inexperience many airborne troops including those of Fox Company loaded themselves up too much for their jump into Normandy on D-Day.
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Carrying Too Much Gear For Jump Into Normandy
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Eugene Sledge recounts in his diary how he and his fellow soldiers were being trained in subhuman slaughter before their landing at hellish Peleliu.
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Being Drawn Into the Flaming Abyss of Peleliu
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Unaware that the NVA was about to launch a new offensive around Dai Do a group of 250 Marines launch their attack against what would be 10,000 NVA.
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250 Marines Didn't Know They Were Up Against 10,000 NVA at Dai Do
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As part of their effort to put down the Iraqi insurgency in Fallujah, in some of the heaviest urban combat since Hue, Marines had to cross the very wide and perilous Highway 10 to reach a key objective.
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Against the Odds
The Terror of Having to Cross Highway 10 in Fallujah
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With only 79 men Charlie company finds itself in a precarious position surrounded by a vastly superior NVA force in the dense jungle in Vietnam.
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Charlie Company is Bloodied and Trapped in the Jungle
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The only thing holding up Hitler's plan to divide and send General Patton's 3rd Army back to the sea was a group of 150 National Guardsmen occupying the crucially important Hill 314 in the village of Mortain, France.
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150 Men of Old Hickory in Mortain Hold Up Hitler's Plan to Destroy Patton's Army
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As part of their effort to put down the Iraqi insurgency in Fallujah, in some of the heaviest urban combat since Hue, Marines had to cross the very wide and perilous Highway 10 to reach a key objective.
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The Terror of Having to Cross Highway 10 in Fallujah
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With only 79 men Charlie company finds itself in a precarious position surrounded by a vastly superior NVA force in the dense jungle in Vietnam.
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Charlie Company is Bloodied and Trapped in the Jungle
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150 Men of Old Hickory in Mortain Hold Up Hitler's Plan to Destroy Patton's Army
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In 1932 Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell mounted a simulated attack on Pearl Harbor utilizing carrier-based airplanes to expose how vulnerable it was to a carrier-borne attack. The Japanese took notice.
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America: Facts vs. Fiction
The Pearl Harbor Attack of 1932
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Such were his powers of organization and logistics, Dwight Eisenhower was always kept away from combat because he made others better and more well-prepared for it.
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Eisenhower Had How Much Combat Experience?
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George Washington was preceded by several other Presidents of the United States.
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Facts vs. Fiction:George Washington Not our First President
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There are many misconceptions surrounding our understanding of General George Armstrong Custer and his final campaign against the Plains Indians but the actual facts are more compelling than the fiction.
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America: Facts vs. Fiction
Facts vs. Fiction (Season 2):The Real General Custer and What Really Happened at Little Bighorn
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Paul Revere has been billed as America?s first action hero after his famous "Midnight Ride" but as truth would have it, he was part of a network.
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Facts vs. Fiction:It Wasn't Just Paul Revere
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The Articles of Confederation proved to be more trouble than help, with individual states all pushing their interests and agendas, to the point of threatening the country as a whole.
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Facts vs. Fiction:Articles of Confederation
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Our vision of Paul Revere's midnight ride is all wrong, especially how it concludes.
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Facts vs. Fiction:The Truth About Paul Revere
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A small anecdote from the crossing of the Mayflower to America reveals that an indentured servant, John Howland was swept off the deck of the ship during a storm, and that had he not been saved US history would have taken a different turn.
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Facts vs. Fiction:The Mayflower and What May Not Have Been
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When one thinks of America's first amusement ride Coney Island comes to mind, but another ride in Pennsylvania was attracting large crowds of thrill-seekers a decade before.
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The Truth About America's First Amusement Rides
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There were actually two boats of Pilgrims that left England for the US, and Plymouth Rock was not the first place the Mayflower disembarked.
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Facts vs. Fiction:What Really Happened with the Mayflower
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Witness how childhood boredom escalated into the mass hysteria that led to the Salem Witch Trials.
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Facts vs. Fiction:Salem Witch Craft Hysteria
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The negative characterization of Edgar Allan Poe as a paranoid drug addict with the darkest of minds can be traced back to one man who was a rival of Poe's. There is no proof of drugs and his "darkness" is only inferred because of the scary stori ...
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Facts vs. Fiction:The Real Edgar Allan Poe
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There are several facts and fictions associated with New York City's Empire State Building, like that one about a penny dropped from the top having the ability to kill someone on the sidewalk.
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What Happens When a Penny is Dropped From the Empire State Building?
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