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Japanese Transports Major Losses
By John W. WhitmanJapan had serious difficulties deploying her manpower, and a few examples illustrate some of the worst events. Read more
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War on Civilians
The fire-bombing raids on Japan constituted all-out war on a civilian population. By Sam McGowanIt was a method of warfare that would have been anathema to Americans only a few short years before. Read more
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King as Pawn
By Eric NiderostOn May 6, 1939, King George VI of Great Britain and his wife Queen Elizabeth arrived in Portsmouth to board the liner Empress of Australia, which was to take them to Canada and subsequently to the United States. Read more
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World of Tanks Salutes 100 Years of Tank Battles
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Team-based massively-multiplayer online action game World of Tanks is getting in on a historical celebration to commemorate 100 years since the very first tank battle. Read more
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Daring Doolittle Raid Survivors
By Joseph ConnaughtonThe first good news in the war for the United States had been the Doolittle Raid on April 18. Read more
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Boyd Wagner: Early American Ace
By Sam McGowanCommon wisdom has long held that Japanese pilots and aircraft, particularly their fighters, were superior to the American, Australian, and British counterparts they faced in combat in the Philippines and Southeast Asia in the opening months of U.S. Read more
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How the Cossacks Were Betrayed by Britain in World War II
By Blaine TaylorAn estimated four million Red Army soldiers were captured by the Germans during the six months after the launching of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1941. Read more
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An Army Combat Engineer’s Story of the D-Day Invasion
By Rob MorrisNineteen-year-old army combat engineer Jay Rencher blinked the salt spray from his eyes, filled his lungs, and again plunged beneath the cold, roiling waves. Read more
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The St. Nazaire Raid
By Flint WhitlockBritain badly needed a victory. As if to underline Britain’s difficult fortunes, on May 21, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen dealt the island kingdom a serious blow by sinking the battlecruiser HMS Hood and severely damaging the new battleship HMS Prince of Wales during a furious engagement in the Denmark Strait. Read more
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Armored Blitz to Avranches
By Kevin M. HymelLieutenant General Omar Bradley had reason to be pleased by the last week of July 1944. His First Army had scratched out a substantial foothold on the Normandy coast, capturing three times more French territory than his British allies. Read more
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Lightning Strike in Sequatchie Valley
“As the pace quickened, these captures thickened along the way; and after going ten or twelve miles down the valley to the vicinity of Jasper, there opened the richest scene that the eye of a cavalryman can behold. Read more
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Theodore Roosevelt’s Cowboy Regiment
by Christopher MiskimonThe late morning of July 1, 1898, was a tense time for the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. Read more
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Italy’s Failed African Gambit
By Gregory PedutoUnder the cover of the dusty Ethiopian night, the 17,000-man Italian Royal Expeditionary force scrambled over ragged hills and inactive volcanoes in the early morning hours of March 1, 1896. Read more
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General Arthur Percival: a Convenient Scapegoat?
By Jon DiamondOn February 15, 1942, the island fortress of Singapore surrendered with 130,000 men, thus ending the defense of Malaya as one of the largest military disasters in the history of British arms since Cornwallis’s capitulation to Franco-American forces at Yorktown in 1781 during America’s Revolutionary War. Read more
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Six-Pounder Versus Panzer
By Christopher MiskimonSergeant Charles Callistan looked through the sights of an antitank gun at an approaching enemy tank. His weapon, a six-pounder cannon, was in the perimeter of a surrounded British outpost named Snipe. Read more
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The 45th Infantry Division Museum in Oklahoma City
By Christopher MiskimonThe 45th Infantry Division of the United States Army earned an impressive record during World War II. Originally formed from an Oklahoma National Guard unit, the division was rounded out by National Guard formations from Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Read more
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The U.S. Army’s Humvee
By Albert MrozThe High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, or Humvee, was created as a light, multipurpose, off-road vehicle that would supersede the venerable jeep and other light trucks. Read more
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Bloodbath in New England
By Chuck LyonsIn the autumn of 1621, Massasoit, a sachem (chief) of the Pokanoket and Wampanoag tribes, entered American legend when he and some his people joined the Pilgrim harvest celebration that would later be called the first Thanksgiving. Read more
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The Red Baron’s Band of Brothers
By O’Brien BrowneLike a swarm of ungainly dragonflies, a squadron of six British RE8 observation aircraft droned over the trenches of northern France on the afternoon April 13, 1917. Read more
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The Legendary Kit Carson: Scout and Soldier
By Mike PhiferThe two Indian scouts ignored the gawking soldiers as they rode into where the bluecoated troops had bivouacked for the night at Mule Springs in the Texas Panhandle on November 24, 1864. Read more
