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Intelligence: Confederate Spies Used Newspapers to Communicate
By David A. NorrisThe Herald, like other major New York newspapers, was packed with classified ads on November 1, 1863. Read more
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Heroic Stand in Afghanistan
By Christopher MiskimonThe 68 men of the Corps of Guides at the British Residency in Kabul all perished on September 3, 1879, but they died a magnificent death. Read more
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French Aces on the Eastern Front: The Normandie-Niemen Squadron
By Andre Bernole and Glenn BarnettThe world was understandably shocked when France capitulated to Nazi Germany in June 1940, but not all Frenchmen accepted their country’s humiliation. Read more
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D-Day+1: Canadians at the Battle of Buron and Authie
By Herb KugelOn June 7, 1944, D+1, two volunteer Canadian 3rd Division, 9th Infantry Brigade regiments, the North Nova Scotia Highlanders (the North Novas) and the 27th Canadian Armoured Regiment (the Sherbrooke Fusiliers)—together with volunteer units from the Camerons of Ottawa and Forward Observers from the 14th Field Regiment—fought an important but now generally forgotten battle in Normandy. Read more
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The Days of Shoddy: Worst Manufacturers of the Civil War
By Timothy Koenig“For sugar the government often got sand; for coffee, rye; for leather, something no better than brown paper; for sound horses and mules, spavined beasts and dying donkeys; and for serviceable muskets and pistols, the experimental failures of sanguine inventors, or the refuse of shops and foreign armories.” Read more
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Albert Speer: Chief Architect of the Third Reich
By Blaine TaylorOn October 6, 1943, Dr. Albert Speer, Reich minister of armaments and war production for the Third Reich, gave a 50-minute address to the assembled top officials of Nazi Germany at Posen Castle in occupied Poland’s Reich Gau (Region) of Wartheland on the critical state of World War II at that point. Read more
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The Arisaka Rifle: Weapons for the Imperial Japanese Army Way of War
By Jon DiamondAs militarism grew in Japan in the early 1930s, conscription began at the age of 19, and the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) cadet entered military service. Read more
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Art of the Ninth Air Force: A Soldier’s View of the Desert War
The Ninth Air Force began life on August 21, 1941, as the 5th Air Support Command at Bowman Field, Kentucky, and was activated on September 1, 1941. Read more
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WWII Aircraft: Nakajima Ki-43
By Patrick J. ChaissonAt the start of World War II, Japanese airpower ruled the skies over China and the Pacific. Read more
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A Fierce Glory: The Battle of Antietam
By Christopher Miskimon
In the late afternoon of September 17, 1862 the 7th Maine Regiment received new orders. The Battle of Antietam had raged throughout the day. Read more
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The Battle of Arracourt: Patton’s Third Army vs Manteuffel’s Panzers
By Leo BarronLieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr., the commander of the newly constituted U.S. Third Army, had one simple order that late summer of 1944: “Go east and go like Hell.” Read more
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The South’s Famous Orphan Brigade
By Michael E. HaskewOn April 15, 1861, three days after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteer troops. Read more
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Sailing Ships and Artillery
By Eric NiderostThe Battle of the Nile represents the apogee of the Age of Fighting Sail, a peak that was confirmed at Trafalgar seven years later. Read more
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Geronimo: Ruthless Apache Chief
By John WalkerOn March 5, 1851, a group of Mexican soldiers from Sonora plundered a lightly guarded Apache camp outside the village of Janos in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua 75 miles south of the U.S.-Mexican Read more
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Hitler’s Medium Bombers
By William F. Floyd, Jr.An armada of German Heinkel He-111 bombers droned through the Ukrainian night sky on September 21, 1944, en route to Poltava Airfield in the Ukraine for a mission against American bombers parked at the base. Read more
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Coming of Age at Tarawa
By Nick CarielloIt was with great anticipation that I sprang up the snowy steps of a Milwaukee building in January 1942 and entered the Marine Corps Recruitment Center. Read more
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NA-16 Wirraway: From Trainer to Fighter
By Glenn BarnettBy the mid-1930s many people in Australia were concerned that if war came to Europe that Great Britain would not be able to come to their defense against a growing and aggressive Japanese Empire. Read more
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WWII Aircraft: The Lancaster Heavy Bomber
By Michael D. HullWing Commander Guy P. Gibson of Royal Air Force Bomber Command was handed the most challenging assignment of his six-year career in the spring of 1943. Read more
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Raid on Darwin: Australia’s Pearl Harbor
By Arnold BlumbergThe sun was just rising and the day promised clear skies overhead. Since 5 am maintenance crews had been running the engines, making last minute adjustments, and arming the scores of aircraft sitting on the steel flight deck of the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi. Read more
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Faces of the U.S. Marine Corps
By Eric HammelNoted chronicler of the Pacific Theater Eric Hammel recently spent three years sorting, scanning, cleaning, selecting, and captioning United States Marine Corps World War II photos for six pictorial books. Read more
