Through Their Eyes: Untold Stories from History

Through Their Eyes: Untold Stories from History

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The Crossing: Christmas Night, 1776
Private Jacob Hewes, Continental Army December 25, 1776 - McConkey's Ferry, Pennsylvania
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Vietnam: The Red Dust of X-Ray
November 1965. In the Ia Drang Valley, a medic learns that the difference between life and death is often just the sound of a rotor blade.
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Echoes of the Past: Smoke Over San Juan Hill
July 1, 1898. The Buffalo Soldiers, the Rough Riders, and the truth about who took the hill.
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Echoes of the Past: The Day the Gulf Took Galveston
September 8, 1900. I claimed this city was safe from storms. I was wrong.
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Echoes of the Past: The Frozen Christmas of Bastogne
December 1944. Surrounded, out of ammo, and freezing in a foxhole. A paratrooper’s view of the "NUTS" reply.
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Echoes of the Past: The First National Thanksgiving
A Private in the 20th Maine reflects on Lincoln’s proclamation, the mud of Virginia, and the empty chairs back home.
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D-Day (1944): Ferryman to Hell on Omaha Beach
My name is Jack Riley. I'm a nineteen-year-old coxswain in the United States Coast Guard. My job is to deliver thirty-six men to France. I didn't know I…
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Through Their Eyes: Untold Stories from History
Through Their Eyes: Untold Stories from History
First-person accounts from famous moments in time, including battles and discoveries
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