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"The five Sullivan brothers, at their insistence, were assigned to the same ship in World War II. Predictably when the ship was blown up they all were killed. The Navy buried their mistake in allowing all five to serve on the same ship by turning the five brothers into heroes, complete with a ship named after them, a Hollywood movie, and news coverage that turned five shiftless losers into great American heroes. Kuklick tells the story of who they...
763) Raising the Hunley
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Discover the secrets of the Confederate hand-powered submarine, the H. L. Hunley, as researchers raise it and open it for the first time in more than a century.