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The R. P. Resor was torpedoed on Feb 28, 1942 off the coast of northern New Jersey, with a full load of crude oil. (Photo courtesy of Joseph Bilby)

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The history of submarine warfare off the Jersey coast

Imagine yourself on a beach in Sea Isle City in the winter of 1942. It’s night, and a cold, steady breeze off the A ...

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The Battle of Chosin Reservoir

Guest: Hampton Sides General Douglas MacArthur was certain that the Chinese would not step into the Korean War in ...

Air Date: October 3, 2018 10:00 am

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On the first day of the Meuse-Argonne Allied offensive in France, a U.S .Army 37-mm gun crew man their position. (AP file photo)

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World War I battle devastated U.S. forces, broke hearts at home

On Sept. 26, 1918, the soldiers of the 28th Division, many of them from Philadelphia, nervously glanced at their watches as dawn approach ...

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The U.S. is sanctioning China's military for buying equipment from Russia that included fighter jets and surface-to-air missiles. Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) is show with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in Russia earlier this month. (Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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China fires back against U.S. sanctions for purchases of Russian weapons

China and Russia's increasing military and economic ties come as a trade war escalates between China and the U.S.

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The leader of a fictional movement to repopulate Poland with Jews delivers a speech in an installation view of

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Artist takes her work out of the museum, onto Philly streets

The complex films of Yael Bartana at the Philadelphia Museum of Art wrap multicultural messaging with nationalist propaganda.

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An original 1779 minute book of Pennsylvania’s unicameral Revolutionary General Assembly has returned to Pennsylvania for safekeeping in the Pennsylvania State Archives. (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission)

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Long-lost Revolutionary War-era book returns to Pennsylvania

Historians are always a bit skeptical about items supposedly from the 1770s because of all the reproductions out there, but this volume proved to be the real deal.

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Russian troops and their Belarusian counterparts awaiting orders during joint military exercises in Belarus last year. Next month, Russia will embark on another joint military exercise — this time on a much larger scale and in collaboration with China and Mongolia.
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Russia prepares 300,000 troops for its largest war games in nearly 4 decades

Amid mounting acrimony with NATO, Russia's military has announced plans to hold its "biggest exercises since 1981."

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The flag at the Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial has not been lowered to mark the passing of U.S. Sen. John McCain, who was captured, tortured and imprisoned in Vietnam for five years. (Peter Tobia/ for WHYY)

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Honor McCain by lowering flag at Philly’s Vietnam memorial

My father, Navy Chief Petty Officer Salvino Paul Tobia was working in a hangar at Pearl Harbor on Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, when Japa ...

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In this Tuesday, July 3, 2018, photo, a Pakistani recruit, 22, who was recently discharged from the U.S. Army, holds an American flag as he poses for a picture. The Army said in court documents it has reinstated more than 30 immigrant recruits and reservists whose contracts had been terminated. (Mike Knaak/AP)

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Army reinstates dozens of discharged immigrant recruits and reservists

The U.S. Army has reinstated more than 30 recruits it had forcibly discharged.

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A child injured in a deadly Saudi-led coalition airstrike on Thursday rests in a hospital in Saada, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. Yemen's shiite rebels are backing a United Nations' call for an investigation into the airstrike in the country's north that hit a bus carrying civilians, many of them school children in a busy market, killing dozens of people including many children. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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The toll of wars in the Middle East

Guests: Nasser Arrabyee, Lee Keath, Shireen Al-Adeeimi, Joshua Landis Dozens of children were killed in a Saudi-l ...

Air Date: August 14, 2018 10:00 am

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The White House is proposing changes to the Military Lending Act that critics say would leave service members vulnerable when they buy cars.

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White House takes aim at financial protections for military

The Trump administration is taking aim at a law designed to protect military service members from getting cheated by shady lending practices.

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The single dog tag in the 55 boxes of human remains turned over to the U.S. by North Korea last week was still readable. It was presented to Master Sgt. Charles Hobert McDaniel's two sons at a ceremony on Wednesday.
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Sons get ‘certitude’ after receiving their missing father’s Korean War dog tag

Charles McDaniel, Jr., and his younger brother Larry were presented with their father's ID tag by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency at a ceremony in Arlington, Va.

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This undated file photo provided by the Calixto family shows Lucas Calixto. The U.S. Army has suspended discharging immigrant reservists and recruits promised a pathway to citizenship when they enlisted. A memo shared with The Associated Press on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018, spells out orders to high-ranking Army officials to stop processing discharges of enlistees in the special immigrant program, effective July 20. In mid-July the Army reversed one discharge, for Brazilian reservist Calixto, who had sued. (Courtesy of the Calixto Family via AP, File)

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For now, Army suspends discharges of immigrant recruits

The U.S. Army has stopped discharging immigrant recruits who enlisted seeking a path to citizenship — at least temporarily.

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World War II veteran Charles Reddig, flying a mission over Japan, saw the atomic bomb explode over Hiroshima and the devastation it left behind. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

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When the Atomic Age began 73 years ago, this Pennsylvania man was there

Charlie Reddig happened to fly his plane over Hiroshima the same day U.S. forces hit it with an atomic bomb. 'What happened to all these people,' he wondered.

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Built in the style of a Greek temple, Atlantic City's monument to the men who served in World War I was erected in 1922.

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Monument stands sentry for Atlantic City, guards childhood memories

The names of battles in which Atlantic City men fought are carved in the top along with medallions of the armed forces.

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