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Countdown to Pearl Harbor
By Mason B. Webb“I do believe that the United States fleet would not have been in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, had I been the chief of naval operations at that time.” Read more
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Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper
By Al HemingwayThe case of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper, the first African-American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, is a fascinating if cautionary tale. Read more
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Questions on the Holocaust
By Mason B. WebbOne of the most common beliefs that has arisen since the end of World War II is that America and her allies had as one of their primary goals for fighting the war ending the systematic slaughter of Europe’s Jews. Read more
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Pearl Harbor Countdown
By Al HemingwayNearly seven decades after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Navy and Air Force on the morning of December 7, 1941, controversy still surrounds the history-changing event. Read more
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A Megalomaniac’s Lust for Power
By Mason B. WebbFew men have had an impact on world history equal to that of Adolf Hitler. His megalomania resulted in the deaths of millions and redrew the map of Europe. Read more
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Future Civil War generals on both sides received their professional baptism of fire on the killing fields of Mexico.
By Al HemingwayWhen war with Mexico erupted in 1846, the United States was woefully unprepared. The regular army was well below its authorized numbers and could only field slightly more than 5,000 officers and soldiers. Read more
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“By the Grace of God You Got Through”
By Mason B. WebbThe six-month-long land and naval battles for Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands chain have been well covered in books and magazine articles, but the war in the skies above the islands has received less attention. Read more
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The Red Arrows in Green Hell
By Mason B. WebbDuring the whole of the Pacific campaign, no single mission was more difficult or challenging than the mission assigned to a unit of American GIs in New Guinea. Read more
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The 761st Tank Battalion
Dear Editor:
I wish to commend you for your recent article in the April/May issue on the 761st Tank Battalion. As the first African American armored unit in the history of the U.S. Read more
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Revolution in the South
By Al HemingwayWhen historians discuss the American Revolution, they give scant attention to the hard fighting that occurred in the southern states. Read more
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Eisenhower, Marshall, and MacArthur
By Mason B. WebbOnly five modern American Army generals have ever been authorized to wear the five stars denoting the rank of General of the Army. Read more
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The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
By Al HemingwayI am happy nowhere else and in no other society, and all my wishes end, where I hope my days will end, at Monticello,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1787. Read more
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Tragedy and Courage in a Storm-Tossed Sea
By Mason B. WebbIn mid-December 1944, between Guam and the Philippines, the greatest enemy Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey’s Third Fleet encountered was not the Japanese but a monstrous typhoon—the largest storm the U.S. Read more
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The Soviets carried the heavy end of the stick
By Mason B. WebbFor over 60 years, the popular misconception in the West is that the U.S. and Great Britain carried the burden of World War II, while the Soviet Union played a supporting role. Read more
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Manipulated intelligence, faulty equipment, and inept leadership caused one of America’s worst military defeats during the Korean War.
By Al HemingwayIt was dubbed “the century’s nastiest little war” by celebrated military historian S.L.A. Marshall. The conflict to which he was referring was the Korean War, a war fought, as Secretary of State Dean Acheson observed, in the worst possible location. Read more
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Horrific Fight on Land and Sea
By Mason B. WebbOperation Iceberg, the battle of Okinawa, which lasted from April to June 1945, was the final and largest air-sea-land battle of the Pacific campaign. Read more
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Swashbucklers Of The China Skies
By Mason B. WebbDuring the dark, early days of World War II, when the Imperial Japanese army, navy, and air force were running roughshod over Asia and the Pacific, it seemed that nothing could stop them. Read more
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T.F. Wilson’s Memoir of the Indian Mutiny
By Al HemingwayAlthough the bloody Sepoy insurrection of 1857 was SPARK- ed by the introduction of the new Enfield rifle, the seeds of mistrust between Indian soldiers and their British colonial masters were planted long before that. Read more
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Recalling the devastation of Dresden
By Mason B. WebbIt is highly unusual in the publishing world for two books to come out in the same year on the same topic with the same title (and even the same photo on their covers). Read more
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The Battle for Khartoum
By Al HemingwayHe was known as Mohammed Ahmed and he was born in 1844 at Dirar, a small island near the Third Cataract of the Nile River, in the Sudanese village of Dongala. Read more
