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Four days in December: Germany’s path to war with the US
Adolf Hitler and other German leaders so thoroughly expected the Reich to fight America that, after the initial delighted outburst, they gave Pearl Harbor scarcely a thought.
By Gerhard L. Weinberg, HistoryNet
Seized North Korean cargo ship sold to compensate parents of Otto Warmbier, others
Seized ship sold, towed from American Samoa
By Navy Times staff
Explainer: How the pain of 9/11 still stays with a generation
As we reflect on the anniversary of this tragic event, a question to consider is: How has this event impacted those individuals who are too young to remember a world before 9/11?
By Dana Rose Garfin, University of California, Irvine
Globetrotting Leviathan: Graf Zeppelin’s amazing voyage
One of the Americans on board the blimp was future Vice Adm. Charles E. Rosendahl, the U.S. Navy’s top airship man.
By Eric Niderost, Aviation History
Dead by their own hands: Why the Germans scuttled a fleet
Just a few fathoms below Scapa Flow’s dark surface lie the remains of a navy — four battleships and four light cruisers of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet, scuttled by their own crews in 1919 in the largest act of self-destruction in naval history.
By Mark T. Simmons, Military History