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    The Bell D-188A (unofficial military designations XF-109/XF3L) was a proposed eight-engine Mach 2–capable vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) tiltjet...
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    Count Claudius Florimund de Mercy (1666 – 29 June 1734) was an Imperial field marshal, born at Longwy in Lorraine, now in France. His grandfather was the...
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    The 5th Ranger Infantry Battalion was a Ranger battalion activated during World War II on 1 September 1943 at Camp Forrest, Tennessee. By this time, while...
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  • David Bradford (1762–1808) was a successful lawyer and deputy attorney-general for Washington County, Pennsylvania in the late 18th century. He was infamous...
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  • Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) is a United States-based organization founded in January 2005 by individuals who lost family members in the Iraq War...
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  • The Battle at Tacna was an engagement during the War of the Pacific (1879–1883) between Chile and the Allied Forces of Peru and Bolivia. It was fought...
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  • The Indian XXXIV Corps was formed in March 1945 to be part of the British Fourteenth Army for Operation Zipper, the invasion of British Malaya. Significant...
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  • During the early part of the Norwegian campaign of the Second World War, the Norwegian 2nd Division (Norwegian: 2. divisjon), commanded by General Jacob...
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  • Isaac Zelig Zieman (May 6, 1920 – April 2, 2007) was a survivor of both the Holocaust and Stalin's gulag (labor camps) who went on to devote his life to...
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  • Immediately after the fall of Singapore in 1942 certain Army circles argued that Japan should exploit her advantage and seek peace with Great Britain....
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  • Clateau was a French non-commissioned officer of the 19th century, a quarter-master and a cannonry specialist. With the advent of the Boshin War, and the...
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