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When a mob of armed insurgents flooded the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, they brought an accessory: the Confederate battle flag. As the crowd of President Trump’s supporters rioted ...
On 27 April 1972, two USN F-4B Phantoms from USS Coral Sea were tasked with attacking targets over North Vietnam. Heavy cloud cover made the task impossible so they set up a CAP station south of Hanoi ...
Sacramento remembered those who died while fighting for our country with Memorial Day events across the region.
Conservatives slammed liberal politicians and members of the media for branding an enduring and popular Revolutionary War-era flag as a "MAGA battle flag," in their attempt to tie Supreme Court ...
The Appeal to Heaven flag is now associated with a militant arm of Christian nationalism. It waved as a battle flag by many of the Jan. 6 insurgents, who stormed the U.S. Capitol in 2021 seeking ...
On April 18, 1861, six days after the opening shots of the Civil War, the Philadelphia Inquirer described a “great sensation” in Boston. A “strange craft” had appeared in the harbor: a ...
In support of the U.S. Navy’s (USN) Integrated Battle Problem 2023 (IBP-23) exercise in May, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) conducted a series of Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) ...
On a Civil War battlefield, the sight of a blue Union battle flag with an eagle seal flying in the wind meant you were surrounded by 1,000 of your closest friends. And in the midst of a battle ...
When the USS New Jersey left the pier for the first time in two decades at the end of March, it did so in style -- with the warship's unusual yellow battle flag flying in the wind. Decommissioned ...
But the conquest of Iwo Jima, despite the famous flag-raising four days into the battle, did not come for another month. Advancing U.S. troops trying to establish the location of a Japanese ...
A rare artifact from the Civil War is set to go up for auction later this month in Columbus: a regimental battle flag of the 11th Virginia Infantry, which was captured during Pickett's Charge. The ...