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Failure at Pearl Harbor
By Sam McGowanIn 1995 the Department of Defense conducted a final investigation of the December 7, 1941, attack on U.S. Read more
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Military History Book Reviews for June 2004
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was an average Midwestern American city in 1940. Read more
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The pilots of the Fifth Air Force fought an innovative kind of war in the South Pacific.
By Sam McGowanOnce in a great while a truly historical figure takes the time to write a memorable account of that part of his life that put him in the history books. Read more
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NYT’s Living History of World War II
By Michael D. HullTensions were high among expectant crowds gathering on the evening of August 14, 1945, in New York City’s Times Square, where news bulletins had streaked across the electronic “zipper” sign high on the Times Tower since 1928. Read more
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A. Jay Cristol’s ‘The Liberty Incident’
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)On June 8, 1967, during the height of the Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab adversaries, the USS Liberty was attacked apparently without warning while in international waters in the eastern Mediterranean. Read more
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The Battles of Twin Tunnels and Chipyong-ni
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)Success in combat and life and death on the battlefield may often owe to the manpower, materiel, or logistics superiority of one opponent over the other. Read more
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The Archaeologist Was a Spy
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)Sylvanus G. Morley (1883-1948) was considered the most influential and successful archaeologist of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. Read more
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Ivan R. Dee’s ‘Forged in War’
By Michael D. HullThey were two unlikely looking warriors, yet their fateful friendship and shared leadership ensured the Allied victory in World War II and laid the groundwork for peace. Read more
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The Wehrmacht
By Michael D. HullBetween September 1939 and November 1941, the German Army inflicted crushing defeats on Polish, Dutch, Belgian, Norwegian, French, British, and Soviet Armies, achieving in a matter of months what had been impossible during four bloody years of attrition on the Western Front in 1914-18. Read more
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W.W. Norton’s ‘Beyond Glory’
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)He makes Rambo look like Captain Kangaroo,” were words used to describe the battlefield exploits of Medal of Honor recipient Captain (later Colonel) Lewis H. Read more
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Laurence Rees’ ‘Horror in the East’
By Michael D. HullCorporal Bill Hedges of the Australian Army was part of the force that fought Japanese troops back across the rugged Owen Stanley mountain range in New Guinea after their failed advance toward Port Moresby in 1942. Read more
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The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)Among the stalwart 4th Infantry Division soldiers who assaulted Utah Beach at Normandy on D-day were 13 specially recruited and trained Comanche Indians of the 4th Signal Company. Read more
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Henry Holt & Co’s ‘Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life’
By Michael D. HullAn obscure U.S. Army staff officer who had never been in action, Dwight David Eisenhower was a lieutenant colonel at the age of 50 with no visible prospects for advancement in the stagnant between-the-wars promotion system. Read more
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Marine Rifleman
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life and beyond the call of duty,” began the citation for the Medal of Honor awarded to then-U.S. Read more
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H. Paul Jeffers’ ‘In the Roughrider’s Shadow’
By Michael D. HullWhen the men of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, U.S. 4th Infantry Division stepped out of a Higgins boat into waist-deep water at Utah Beach, Normandy, early on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, they were accompanied by a short, slender man with a dented nose. Read more
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Marching with the Big Red One
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)Kill them, Lieutenant. Don’t take any prisoners,” exhorted the bedraggled engineer officer to the new replacements, “Don’t take any prisoners!” Read more
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McCarthy and Syron’s ‘Panzerkrieg’
By Michael D. HullWhen German forces rumbled across the Polish frontier in the early hours of Friday, September 1, 1939, igniting World War II, it was the speed and mobility of the armored divisions—the Panzerwaffe—that stunned the world. Read more
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Rommel and Caporetto
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)Trench warfare on the Western Front during World War I was generally static, stultifying, and unimaginative. Read more
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Edwin P. Hoyt’s ‘The U-Boat Wars’
By Michael D. HullWhen Chancellor Adolf Hitler started rearming Germany in 1934, his submarine force commander, Admiral Karl Doenitz, asked for men and materiel to create a fleet of 300 U-boats. Read more
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Colin White’s “1797, Nelson’s Year of Destiny”
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)That would be absurd,” responded the legendary Royal Navy Admiral Sir (later Lord) Horatio Nelson to the patriotic lady asking to rename her pub the Nelson Arms, “seeing I have but one.” Read more
