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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 Hemingway

The 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. Webb

One 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

Devastation of the U.S. fleet.

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Pearl Harbor Countdown

By Al Hemingway

Nearly 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. Webb

Few 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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“By the Grace of God You Got Through”

By Mason B. Webb

The 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. Webb

During 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 Hemingway

When 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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Tragedy and Courage in a Storm-Tossed Sea

By Mason B. Webb

In 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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Horrific Fight on Land and Sea

By Mason B. Webb

Operation 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. Webb

During 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 Hemingway

Although 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. Webb

It 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 Hemingway

He 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