თარგი:Portal:War/Did you know

• ...that, although Kievan Rus was heavily defeated in the Rus'-Byzantine War (1043), hostilities ended with the marriage of Vsevolod I of Kiev to Constantine IX's daughter?
• ... that Harrison Thyng was one of only six US Air Force pilots to be recognized as an ace in two wars?
• ...that during the Rus'-Byzantine War in 907 Oleg of Novgorod reportedly circumvented the chaining of the Bosporus by putting his ships on wheels and sailing them overland (pictured) to Constantinople?
• ...that American World War II Army Captain Bobbie E. Brown was awarded the Medal of Honor for running 100 yards up a hill through machine-gun fire to place a bomb in a German pillbox in the Battle of Crucifix Hill?