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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
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The final battle of the Latin Crusades was a bloody siege that resulted in the downfall of the last crusader-held territories.
By Christopher MiskimonDuring the spring 1291 an enormous Muslim host moved against Acre along the Mediterranean coast. At the time it was Christendom’s last foothold in the Holy Land, a region fought over for centuries during
the religious wars known as the Crusades. Read more
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To the Summit of Suribachi
By Christopher MiskimonIn the predawn darkness of February 23, 1945, a patrol went out toward the towering mass of Mount Suribachi. Read more
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A new work on the Battle of the Little Big Horn assesses the veracity of survivors’ accounts of the battle.
By Christopher MiskimonMajor Marcus Reno’s column fired the opening shots of the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876. Read more
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The U.S. Navy relied heavily on its versatile destroyers in two world wars to fulfill a variety of missions.
By Christopher MiskimonOn November 1, 1943, a gunfight unfolded on the high seas. It began with a more conventional naval battle, a depth-charge attack by an American destroyer on a German U-boat. Read more
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Memoir of a Red Army Tanker
By Christopher MiskimonJust after 6 am on July 5, 1943, Vasiliy Krysov spotted the enemy. Six tanks moved slowly toward him and the SU-122 self-propelled gun he commanded. Read more
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The American Heavy Tank
By Christopher MiskimonA black Opel automobile raced through the streets of Cologne, Germany, on March 6, 1945. The driver, 40-year-old Michael Delling, was making a run for it. Read more
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The Story of America’s Lost Battalion in World War I Is a Saga of Citizen Soldiers Who Endured a Hellish Maelstrom of Combat
By Christopher MiskimonLines of drab-uniformed soldiers emerged from their night march and moved down a forested road into open country on September 26, 1918. Read more
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Slogging into the Reich
By Christopher MiskimonLieutenant William Paul Chapman’s fellow soldiers were tank hunting on the afternoon of August 11, 1944. The Battle of Mortain was raging around them, a counterattack by a German armored spearhead against the growing and inexorable advance of the Allied armies out of the Normandy beachhead. Read more
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William Welsh’s Best World War II Books List
William Welsh, editor of Military Heritage Magazine, has compiled a list of personal favorites for books on the Second World War. Read more
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Books for January 2017
By Christopher MiskimonThe sun shone brightly overhead as the thin line of U.S. Marines lay in a beet field in France. Read more
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WWII Diary of a Boy Soldier: A Story of Youth and Resistance
Julian Kulski was only ten years old when he was introduced to war. As he hunted for mushrooms near Warsaw, Poland, he was struck by the unmistakable buzz of the German blitzkrieg:
“… we heard the sound of engines. Read more
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Demise of the Japanese Navy
By Christopher MiskimonThe Japanese superbattleship Musashi was steaming east along with a fleet of other battleships, cruisers, and destroyers on their way toward what was expected to be a climactic battle at Leyte Gulf. Read more
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Book Reviews: From the Heroics of Henry Lawton to the Tanks of WWI
By Christopher Miskimon Brothers in Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It(Larrie D. Ferreiro, Alfred A. Read more
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Book Reviews: Russia’s Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17
By Christopher MiskimonHeavy fighting raged between German and Russian forces in March 1916 near Lake Naroch in modern-day Belarus. A Russian offensive, which would last for 12 days, was underway to relieve pressure on French forces on the Western Front. Read more
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Book Reviews: Heroism of the Nisei Soldiers
By Christopher Miskimon Honor Before Glory: The Epic World War II Story of the Japanese American GIs Who Rescued the Lost Battalion(Scott McGaugh, Da Capo Press, Boston, 2016, 257 pp., Read more
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Book Review: A Brief Look at Ten New Book Releases
By Christopher MiskimonCourageous Women of the Civil War: Soldiers, Spies, Medics and More (M.R. Cordell, Chicago Review Press, 2016, $19.99, Hardcover) A number of women served in various roles during the conflict. Read more
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Book Review: Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
By Christopher MiskimonThe men of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment began a hard march at 8:30 am on February 20, 1864. Read more
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Book Reviews: Nine Literary Picks For May 2017
By Christopher Miskimon Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World(Adrian Goldsworthy, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2016, 513 pp., Read more
