The US Army Once Deployed Bombers and 2,500 Troops to Crush 10,000 Armed Coal Miners in West Virginia
Ten thousand armed coal miners held Blair Mountain in late August 1921. They faced machine gun nests, private planes dropping bombs, and a growing force of deputies backed by coal company money. Then President Warren Harding made a decision that would end the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War. He sent in the U.S. […]