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Michael Napier’s Korean Air War
By Christopher MiskimonA B-29 crew’s worst nightmare was a MiG-15 fighter boring in on them with its 23mm cannon blazing. Read more
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Savage Combat in a Faraway Jungle
By Christopher MiskimonIn February 1944, the Japanese attacked the Commonwealth’s 7th Indian Division near Sinzweya, Burma. The division divided its troops into several defensive “boxes” to blunt the enemy attack. Read more
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U.S. Pilots At War
By Christopher MiskimonLieutenant Robert Samuel Johnson looked around for some friendly planes to fly with to get back to England. Read more
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The Marines of Baker Company of the 5th Marine Regiment fought with great valor in some of the most desperate battles of the Korean War.
By Christopher MiskimonThe men of Baker Company of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines endured a freezing truck ride to Yudam-Ni, near the soon to be infamous Chosin Reservoir, on November 27, 1950. Read more
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The Demise of Army Group South
By Christopher MiskimonWilli Fey served in a Tiger tank crew on the Eastern Front. During March 1944, a massive Soviet offensive struck the area his unit, the Waffen SS Division Das Reich, defended. Read more
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The Luftwaffe Against England
By Christopher MiskimonIn order to establish the necessary conditions for the final conquest of England … I therefore order the Luftwaffe to overpower the English air force with all forces at its command, in the shortest possible time.” Read more
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Alvin York became the most famous of a group of U.S. doughboys who went into harm’s way to thwart a German attack on October 9, 1918.
By Christopher MiskimonOn October 8, 1918, soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 328th Infantry Regiment arrived at Hill 223 and started dying. Read more
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A Canadian-Born Panzer Gunner
By Christopher MiskimonBruno Friesen looked through the sight of his Panzer IV’s 75mm cannon at an approaching column of enemy tanks. Read more
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A herculean effort by the Russian Baltic Fleet to reach the Pacific Ocean ended in agonizing defeat at the Battle of Tsushima.
By Christopher MiskimonOn May 27, 1905, the Russian fleet went into battle against the Japanese navy. For months, this fleet sailed around the world, beginning its long journey in the Baltic Sea. Read more
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With Third Army Across Europe
By Christopher MiskimonCorporal Frank Sisson spent eight freezing hours in a truck, riding through France toward Belgium. A day earlier, Frank and his fellow GIs of the 667th Field Artillery Battalion, 10th Armored Division lay comfortably billeted in a French town, warm and relatively safe. Read more
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Naval Showdown in the Solomons
By Christopher MiskimonThe First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal began with a delay. Shortly before 1:30 am on November 13, 1942, the American cruiser USS Helena spotted a Japanese task force: “Radar contact. Read more
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Former Marine John “Chick” Donohue went to South Vietnam in 1968 not to fight, but to take messages of support to his friends, as well as to bring them beer.
By Christopher MiskimonJohn “Chick” Donohue stood in the chaos of the American embassy in Saigon in early 1968 as the Tet Offensive raged around it. Read more
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Witness to Okinawa
By Christopher MiskimonOn April 1, 1945, Major Arthur Shaw leaned against the railing of an attack transport ship and stared into the distance at the island of Okinawa. Read more
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Russian and Soviet armies fought bloody campaigns over the past 100 years first to protect the Motherland and then to project regional power.
By Christopher Miskimon“If you are wounded, pretend to be dead; wait until the Germans come up; then select one of them and kill him! Read more
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Book Reviews: Douglas MacArthur’s air force, a WW I machine gunner, and more
By Christopher MiskimonBalikpapan was the most important oil refinery complex in the Pacific during World War II. Located on the island of Borneo in what was then the Dutch East Indies, one expert considered it “the most complete oil refinery outside the continental limits of the United States.” Read more
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Book Reviews: WWII’s Mission Impossible, generals in the making, and more
By Christopher MiskimonThe Winter Line was the German Army’s defensive position in Southern Italy in late 1943. Set into high mountains which dominated the surrounding terrain, numerous Allied attacks against it failed, always with heavy casualties. Read more
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U.S. Paratrooper Left for Dead at Nijmegen
By Christopher MiskimonAs Gene Metcalfe floated down toward the earth in his parachute, the first thing he saw below him was a German soldier walking down a path with girl on his arm. Read more
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Review: F-86 vs. MiG-15
By Christopher MiskimonThe F-86 Sabre was the iconic American fighter of the Korean War era. The struggle was the first war that pitted jet fighter aircraft against each other. Read more
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Midway Air Hero Remembered
The carriers weren’t there.
Lieutenant Commander Wade McClusky looked out over the Pacific Ocean from the cockpit of his Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber and saw nothing. Read more
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Pathfinders Pave the Way
By Christopher MiskimonCaptain Frank Lillyman drifted down toward a French field in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944. Frank was a pathfinder, one of the paratroopers assigned to prepare the way for the main airborne drop on D-Day. Read more
