Although the name Billy Mitchell may not be a familiar one to many people, one thing is for sure, this one name changed the course of history by pushing himself to the limits until he couldn't go any further, and finally got his point across. ... Commissioned as a second lieutenant at the early age of eighteen, Billy Mitchell, without a contracting officers warrant, managed to spend $50,000.00 of the United States governments money to build a telegraph across Alaska. ... Mitchell was reappointed colonel, and transferred to Houston, Texas after his term with the Air Service expired i...

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The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Ardennes, known to the United States as the Battle of the Bulge, was the greatest battle this country had or would participate in. At its height more than 500,000 American forces were engaged with nearly 600,000 German soldiers. The Americans were at tim...

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In his speech there was some general talk about communism, but he also presented a list of two hundred five suspects, compiled by a former F.B.I. agent, by the name of Robert E. ... Later on McCarthy's original list of two hundred five suspects was reduced to fifty-seven, in part because one hundred eight "risks" had left the department. ... McCarthy knew this five person committee would discover he was working from Lee's list, which had been discredited, and needed to search for new names and information. ... General MacArthur and troops had managed to push North Koreans across the ...

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Alfonso left Spain for France on the 14th of April, 1931. ... They included the supporters of the monarchy, the Catholic church and the military led by four or five conservative generals such as Franco. ... From France the volunteers took a train to the Pyrenees where they were forced to hike across the mountains to reach the autonomous community of Catalonia. ... On the 27th five hundred men of the Lincoln brigade attacked the Pingarron Hill in the Jarama Valley and of those 500, three hundred were killed. ...

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In April 1939 the 23rd Division of the Kwantung Army moved to its new target, Outer Mongolia; with orders to cross into Nomonhan, a deserted and disputed sector on the Manchukuo-Korean-Mongolian border. ... Before August 1939 he had acquired 550 front line aircraft, 500 state-of-the-art T34 tanks, twenty cavalry squadrons and thirty-five infantry battalions. ... The Red Army's surprise assault began on 20 August 1939, with a thrust across the border into western Manchukuo. ...

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