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Spanish Disaster at Rocroi
By William WelshFive hundred Spanish musketeers filed into the dim forest on the southern edge of a wooded plain south of the border fort at Rocroi, France, at dusk on May 18, 1643. Read more
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Bloodbath at Mukden: Imperial Russia and Japan Collide
By Louis CiotolaJanuary and February 1905 were critical months for both the Russian and Japanese empires, which were locked in a war over East Asia that neither of them could sustain. Read more
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The Wannsee Conference & Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’
By Blaine TaylorIt is, perhaps, not as well known as other prewar and wartime gatherings of the World War II era, but the quietly held meeting of top Nazi bureaucrats at a secluded villa on Lake Wannsee in the Berlin suburbs on January 20, 1942, was just as much a landmark event as others with higher profiles. Read more
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The Ill-Fated Goettge Patrol: Richard Tregaskis
by John WukovitsThe heated reaction by the Marines to the slaughter at the Goettge Patrol, answered in kind by the Japanese, led to some of the fiercest combat seen in the war. Read more
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Red Army Generals: Ivan D. Chernyakhovsky
By Steven L. OssadThe American jeep holding the 3rd Belorussian Front Commander, General Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky, drove quickly through the city of Mehlsack, just outside Königsberg. Read more
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Mackenzie’s Rebellion
By Chuck LyonsIn December 1837, 400 men armed with muskets, pitchforks, and staves marched against the city of Toronto and the British government. Read more
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Final Conflict on Okinawa
By Dr. Carl H. MarcouxAlthough neither side was aware of it at the time, the battle for Okinawa would be the last major battle of World War II. Read more
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Fallschirmjagers: The German Paratrooper Corps
By Richard RuleBetween 1940 and 1945, the outstanding fighting spirit and courage of the elite German paratroop forces earned the admiration of friend and foe alike. Read more
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Healing the Wounded in Cuba
By Kevin M. HymelThe khaki-clad soldiers wounded in the steaming jungles of Cuba during the Spanish-American War had distinct advantages over their Civil War brethren. Read more
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Confederate Cavalryman Turner Ashby
By Roy Morris Jr.Even in an army not lacking for larger-than-life figures, Confederate cavalry leader Turner Ashby stood out from the crowd. Read more
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The Glorious First of June
By David A. NorrisBritish Admiral Lord Richard Howe, standing on the quarterdeck of his 100-gun ship of the line Queen Charlotte, snapped his signal book shut on the morning of June 1, 1794. Read more
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The Me 262 and the Beginning of the Jet Fighter Age
By Phil ZimmerThe Germans knew the bombers were coming, and they prepared even as the U.S. 457th Bomber Group first assembled in the early morning sunlight over faraway London. Read more
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Sergeant Major Stan Hollis: The Victoria Cross on D-Day
By Michael D. HullA chill breeze cut through the early morning haze, and the storm-swollen sea was rough off the coast of northern France on Tuesday, June 6, 1944. Read more
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Death of the Ternopil Garrison
By Pat McTaggartThe city of Ternopil, located on the eastern bank of the Seret River, was founded in 1540 as a Polish military stronghold. Read more
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Clash at Surigao Strait: The Last Battle Line
By David LippmanIn the distance, they could see the jagged flashes of lightning, an incoming squall in the dark. Just before the rain arrived, so did St. Read more
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Polish Ciphers and the Miracle on the Vistula
By Arnold BlumbergThe Russo-Polish War of 1919-1920 was the most portentous event facing post-Versailles Europe. It was not just the continuation of a centuries-long contest between Russia and Poland to determine which would dominate eastern Europe, but a struggle involving a new ideology—communism—which the Bolshevik regime in Moscow had to spread throughout the Continent to survive. Read more
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First Hell in the Pacific: The Battle for Tulagi
By Arnold BlumbergThe strategic defeats suffered in the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway checked Japan’s advance in the Pacific. Read more
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From Pearl Harbor to Bikini: The USS Curtiss in Action
By Glenn BarnettGene Verge was born in Pasadena, California, in 1918. As a young man in 1941 he faced the probability of being drafted. Read more
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Heinz Guderian: Author of the Blitzkrieg
By Phil ZimmerHitler was enraged as he stalked his way around the room during the waning months of World War II. Read more
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The Fight for Singling
By Arnold BlumbergAfter four months and a 600-mile advance from the beaches of Normandy into Brittany and then through eastern France, the spearhead of Lt. Read more
