3+ hour, 42+ min ago (85+ words) What does the trial of Hermann G'ring reveal about the unsettling normalcy of evil? For this, we're joined by Jack El-Hai, author of "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist'. Through their exchanges, Jack explains how G'ring sought to control his legacy, and what his case revealed about the psychology of power and guilt in the aftermath of war. Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore. Dan Snow's History Hit is a History Hit podcast. See all episodes from Dan Snow's History Hit...

7+ hour, 20+ min ago (532+ words) That is not surprising. Lest there be any question as to what Burns intends for us to learn about the American Revolution, Burns stated in an NPR interview on Oct. 20, 2025, that he believes the driving force of the American Revolution was not to secure for all Americans the ancient rights of Englishmen, but to steal land from the Indians. Really: The central [motivating force], we're not taught this in school. It's taxes and representation, which is super important, but it's Indian land. This is obscene historical revisionism. While it's true that many people wanted to negotiate with Indian tribes to purchase land in the west, that is where the evidence ends.Yet Burns flogs this canard repeatedly throughout the first half-hour of Episode 1. Moreover, Burns ignores the entire political history of Britain'and that history shows that, for Englishmen, the single…...

7+ hour, 20+ min ago (376+ words) This year, 2025, is the 50th since the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975. Former so-called anti-war protesters[1] from that time have recently asked that their contribution toward ending that war be recognized. I, along with many other Vietnam veterans, have no objection to the recognition of that role as long as they are willing to accept responsibility for the results of their actions.Those results include The fact that we have an extremely polarized society today is due in a great part to the fact that history of the "Vietnam War[2] has been mis-reported by the media, mis-recorded by the historians, mis-taught in our schools, and mis-applied in addressing policy decisions. That may have been a differentiation that could be debated on a college campus fifty-plus years ago, but in the fifty years since the fall of Saigon and the…...

8+ hour, 18+ min ago (1124+ words) In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to train Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas to fight Japan. They were members of the OSS Deer Team, a short-lived mission that joined U.S. troops and Vietnamese revolutionaries against a common enemy'two decades before the United States would return to Vietnam as their adversary. In July 1945, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services'the wartime forerunner of the CIA'sent an eight-man special operations team into northern'Indochina to link up with the Viet Minh, the nationalist resistance fighting Japan's occupation. Operating under the OSS China Theater command in Kunming, the mission was led by Maj. Allison K. Thomas. Air-dropped supplies from China equipped the group with M1 carbines, Thompson submachine guns, bazookas, mortars, and grenades'rare and highly needed weapons in the theater. Their goal was to build…...

12+ hour, 30+ min ago (129+ words) Andersen Air Force Base, Guam -- Airmen assigned to the 554th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers celebrated the unit's 60th anniversary during a HORSE Week event on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Nov. 3-7. The 554th RED HORSE was established Oct. 1, 1965, and began training in November of 1965 at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. It is one of the two original RED HORSE units whose original mission was to improve the Air Force's engineering capability to quickly respond to expedient wartime construction and disaster recovery efforts on U.S. bases.[554th RED HORSE celebrates 60 years of military service] 554th RED HORSE celebrates 60 years of military service ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, GUAM Story by Airman Kyle Jones/rss/personnel/1908313...

13+ hour, 40+ min ago (579+ words) Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A federal agency wants to exhume unknown servicemembers who died in the Pearl Harbor attack in Honolulu, Hawai, including on the battleship Arizona, 84 years ago. The Defense Department's Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency announced it "will seek exhumation of dozens of unknowns from the Pearl Harbor attack once an advocacy group is confirmed to have reached the required mark in its genealogy work," Stars & Stripes reported last week. The agency has a searchable list of missing military personnel dating to World War II. They want to remove 86 sets of commingled remains buried as unknowns from the Arizona in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific and 55 sets of remains with no known ship affiliation, DPAA director Kelly McKeague told Stars & Stripes. Since the surprise attack on Dec. 7, 1941, the Arizona has been underwater as a gravesite for…...

15+ hour, 20+ min ago (613+ words) Since Japanese aircraft sank the USS Arizona during the Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the battleship has remained in place under water, the watery gravesite to more than 900 sailors entombed within. The U.S. Navy, as with other sunken ships in the harbor, considers those entombed beneath the ship's hull to be in their final resting place. The battleship suffered more loss of life than any American ship during the attack, its 1,177 dead comprising nearly half the 2,403 killed at Pearl Harbor. Of the ship's dead, 277 of its sailors and Marines are buried in Honolulu's National Memorial of the Pacific. The identity of 86 of those men remain unknown to this day. However, this past week the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that it "will seek exhumation of dozens of unknowns from the Pearl Harbor attack once an advocacy group is confirmed…...

15+ hour, 20+ min ago (613+ words) Since Japanese aircraft sank the USS Arizona during the Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the battleship has remained in place under water, the watery gravesite to more than 900 sailors entombed within. The U.S. Navy, as with other sunken ships in the harbor, considers those entombed beneath the ship's hull to be in their final resting place. The battleship suffered more loss of life than any American ship during the attack, its 1,177 dead comprising nearly half the 2,403 killed at Pearl Harbor. Of the ship's dead, 277 of its sailors and Marines are buried in Honolulu's National Memorial of the Pacific. The identity of 86 of those men remain unknown to this day. However, this past week the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that it "will seek exhumation of dozens of unknowns from the Pearl Harbor attack once an advocacy group is confirmed…...

20+ hour, 20+ min ago (613+ words) Since Japanese aircraft sank the USS Arizona during the Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the battleship has remained in place under water, the watery gravesite to more than 900 sailors entombed within. The U.S. Navy, as with other sunken ships in the harbor, considers those entombed beneath the ship's hull to be in their final resting place. The battleship suffered more loss of life than any American ship during the attack, its 1,177 dead comprising nearly half the 2,403 killed at Pearl Harbor. Of the ship's dead, 277 of its sailors and Marines are buried in Honolulu's National Memorial of the Pacific. The identity of 86 of those men remain unknown to this day. However, this past week the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that it "will seek exhumation of dozens of unknowns from the Pearl Harbor attack once an advocacy group is confirmed…...

20+ hour, 25+ min ago (807+ words) When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian navy unable to guarantee control of the seas, Adolf Hitler turned to his prized Fallschirmj'ger, German paratroopers, to seize the island in the first large-scale airborne assault in history The invasion quickly descended into chaos. Allied anti-aircraft fire shredded German transport planes, scattering paratroopers across the island. Many landed far from their supply canisters and were left armed with only pistols. Greek civilians joined British, Australian, Greek and New Zealand troops in resisting the landings, further adding to the confusion. Against the odds, German paratroopers captured the'Maleme airfield, enabling reinforcements to fly in and overwhelm the defenders. The island fell, but at staggering cost. Thousands of elite paratroopers were killed or wounded, and dozens of valuable transport aircraft were lost....