In Epidemics and the American Military, Dr. Jack McCallum examines the major role the military has played in both propagating and controlling disease throughout this nation’s history. The U.S. armed forces recruit young people from isolated rural areas and densely populated cities, many of whom have been exposed to a smorgasbord of germs. After training and living in close ...
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Epidemics and the American Military
Five Times Disease Changed the Course of War
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The Kissing Sailor
The Mystery Behind the Photo that Ended World War II
On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan’s surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph ever published in the world’s dominant photo-journal) ...
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