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Meat Grinder at Yelnya
By Pat McTaggartThe smell of victory was in the air as the forces of Field Marshal Fedor von Bock’s Army Group Center continued to drive deep into the Ukraine during the final week of June 1941. Read more
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Game Changer: The B29
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a game changer. First rolling off the assembly line as a production aircraft in July 1943, the Superfortress was the answer to America’s need for a high-level long-range strategic bomber. Read more
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The Los Banos Raid: WWII’s Finest Allied Mission?
By Donald J. Roberts IIAs the nine C-47s flew closer to the drop zone, the lead plane descended to an altitude of four hundred feet. Read more
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Military Miniatures
By Joseph BlesIn the 1950s a small group of French artists in Paris took toy soldiers and began converting them into what we now know as military miniatures. Read more
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A Scout in Patton’s Third Army
By Kevin M. HymelThe Messerschmitt Bf-109 fighter plane dove out of the sky with machine guns firing. The pilot’s target—a pontoon bridge being stretched across Germany’s Werra River by American engineers. Read more
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High-Spirited Stupidity
By Patrick J. ChaissonParatrooper Lt. Col. Bill Yarborough was flying into hell. As he prepared to jump from a Douglas C-47 transport plane then approaching the coast of Sicily, hundreds of American antiaircraft gunners below started shooting at him. Read more
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Battle of Amiens: Putting the Allies on the Road to Victory
By Eric NiderostAt the start of the Battle of Amiens, Sergeant Paul Maze was in a forward observation post not a thousand yards from the front, peering into the darkness for any signs of enemy activity. Read more
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Allan Pinkerton
By Clark Larsen“Early in the year 1861, I was at my headquarters in the city of Chicago, attending to the manifold duties of my profession. Read more
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Caught in the Chinese Conflict
By Eric NiderostOn September 2, 1945, Japanese representatives boarded the battleship USS Missouri, riding at anchor in Tokyo Bay, to sign an instrument of unconditional surrender. Read more
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Profiles: ROTC Success
By Bruce PettyMore than 16 million Americans served in the U.S. military during World War II, but as fluid as the situation was in the Pacific, and considering the priority given to the European Theater, it is difficult to obtain an accurate count of how many served in the Pacific at any one time during World War II. Read more
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First Manassas: The Battle of Bull Run
By Earl EchelberryOn March 4, 1861, with war clouds threatening the land, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated the 16th president of the United States. Read more
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SEALs: the Birth of the Navy’s ‘Special Warfare’ Force
By Bud HylandToday’s Navy SEALs (for Sea, Air, and Land special warfare experts) have a history shrouded in secrecy. Commissioned in 1962, they are the most elite shore-area Special Forces in the world, concentrating on very select and often-clandestine intelligence gathering and precision strike missions. Read more
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Mogami: Japan’s Luckless Cruiser
By David H. LippmanShe was the lead ship of her class, built under the 1930 London Naval Treaty, which imposed limits on cruiser, destroyer, and submarine tonnage for the United States, Great Britain, and Japan. Read more
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Insight: Bombing the Abbey
By Duane SchultzFor the thousands of Allied soldiers who had fought and suffered for so long in the shadow of the abbey of Monte Cassino, Tuesday morning, February 15, 1944, was a time of joy and celebration. Read more
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Hannibal and the Second Punic War
By Jonas L. Goldstein, LCDR, USN (Ret.)The Carthaginian hero Hannibal Barca has long been considered to have possessed one of history’s greatest military minds. Read more
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Gustavus Adolphus: Lion of the North
By Isaac BlatterOddly, the fall of the brilliant King Gustavus Adolphus on the field of battle marked both the beginning of Sweden’s rise to power and the end of one of the most aggressive ages of military reform. Read more
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A Time of Unreasoning Hatred
By Eric NiderostOn February 28, 1942, Governor Ralph Lawrence Carr of Colorado received a telegram from the White House. At that moment he was in his office, surrounded by staff, but routine business had to be put on hold while Carr quickly scanned the missive that came directly from the president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt. Read more
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The Vermehren Betrayal
By Tim MillerAfter the long journey from Germany to Istanbul, their escape to North Africa and finally to England, the two defectors ended up in an apartment in South Kensington, one of the more wealthy neighborhoods of London. Read more
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The Battle of Bannockburn: Edward II vs Robert the Bruce
By Terry GoreRobert the Bruce, self-proclaimed King of the Scots, grasped his axe as the heavily armored English nobleman, a member of the vanguard of the 20,000-strong English army, bore down upon him, lance leveled and clods of earth arching from his charger’s hoofs. Read more
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Civil War Artillery
By John D. GreshamFor much of its history, artillery has been a weapon of mass destruction and attrition, a force designed to cause casualties, destroy fortifications, and wear an enemy down with its noise, explosions, and shrapnel. Read more
