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Features May 1, 2011
Gearing Up at the Desert Training Center
he Mojave Desert was once the largest training ground in the history of warfare. In 1942 and 1943, a million soldiers passed through the Desert Training Center (DTC), or California/Arizona Maneuver Area, 28,000 square miles where an inexperienced American military learned to operate in a harsh environment...
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Features May 1, 2011
Cracking the Code
Originally used to encode business transactions and ward off corporate espionage, during WWII the Enigma machine became a powerful and widely used weapon employed by the Nazis for encryption and decryption of military secrets.
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Features May 1, 2011
World War II Aircraft Crash Sites
In World War I, planes were primarily used for reconnaissance missions—though early dogfights took place between aircraft outfitted with machine guns. In World War II, in addition to recon and air fights, aerial bombing was a major activity.
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Features May 1, 2011
North Korea's Full Moon Tower
A joint project between the two Koreas searches for their shared history
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Features March 1, 2011
A Chauvet Primer
After the cave paintings were discovered in December 1994, the first question archaeologists faced was, how old are they?
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Features March 1, 2011
Werner Herzog on 3-D, Cavemen, and the Scent of a Cave Bear
Last March, preeminent filmmaker Werner Herzog was given unprecedented access to Chauvet Cave in southeastern France to film the site's Paleolithic art.
