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Cannonballs, Grapeshot, and Profanity
By David A. NorrisFor nearly a month, 4,000 New England militia aided by the Royal Navy had surrounded the great fortress of Louisbourg, the key to French Canada. Read more
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The M-3 Stuart Light Tank Series
By Christopher Miskimon
Thirteen Panzerkampfwagen IV tanks advanced down the Chouigui-Mateur road in an attack against the newly arrived American First Armored Division. Read more
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Military Board Games
By Peter SuciuThe debate over the outcome of famous battles, or how aspects of them might have happened differently, often begins almost before the wounded have healed or the long-lasting results have been understood. Read more
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The Bridges at Nijmegen
By Christopher MiskimonLieutenant Colonel Ben Vandervoort’s 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (2/505) was fighting its way through the Dutch town of Nijmegen on September 19, 1944. Read more
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Mowed Down by the Fifties
By William E. WelshAs Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his I Corps commander, Maj. Gen. James Longstreet, rode together on horseback along the dust-choked Quaker Road from Glendale to Malvern Hill on the morning of July 1, 1862, they stopped to confer with Maj. Read more
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Carrier Clash in the Marianas
By Chuck LyonsThe Philippine Sea encompasses two million square miles of the western part of the Pacific Ocean. It is bounded by the Philippine Islands on the west, the Mariana Islands on the east, the Caroline Islands to the south, and the Japanese Islands to the north. Read more
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Last-Ditch Roadblock at Hanau
By Matthew R. LamotheTired, hungry, and typhoid-ridden, the French veterans in the Grand Army of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte staggered through the Fulda Gap in central Germany on October 27, 1813. Read more
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Heinrich Himmler: The Rise and Fall of Hitler’s Third Reichsführer-SS
By Blaine TaylorOn the evening of May 23, 1945, in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, five men in a British Army jeep were driving down a dark road. Read more
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Weapons: The Soviet MiG-17 in Vietnam
By William F. Floyd, Jr.The American pilots did not see the North Vietnamese Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 fighter jets approaching their strike aircraft as they zeroed in on Than Hoa Bridge on April 3, 1965. Read more
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Savage Fight for Seelow
By Victor KamenirFor Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and the people of the Soviet Union, the capture of Berlin was of great political and symbolic importance. Read more
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Clash of the Civil War Ironclads
By David A. NorrisSmoke swirled amid the thunderous noise that roared from powerful Dahlgren guns and Brooke rifles. Thousands of spectators along the shore watched the two most dangerous warships in the world at each other at point-blank range. Read more
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Lockheed’s Electra and Lodestar
By Sam McgowanDuring its history, the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation has earned a reputation for building versatile airplanes. Its 1950s era C-130 Hercules is no doubt the most famous, but it was not the first. Read more
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Bloody Repulse at Fontenoy
By Robert L. DurhamThe French cavalry thundered ahead, straight for the British open square. The red-coated infantry made ready for them, the front-rank knelt with muskets planted in the ground and their fixed bayonets pointed outward. Read more
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Big Three in Tehran
By Michael D. HullWorld War II made a disparate trio of allies —British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin, and American President Franklin D. Read more
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The Baker Rifle: Why it was so Accurate, Deadly, and Dependable
By Arnold BlumbergThe European wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries were characterized by large-scale clashes between similarly armed soldiers employing sabers, cannons, and weapons like the iconic Baker rifle. Read more
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The Screaming Eagles in Hitler’s Nest
By Kevin M. HymelFor the Western Allies, the war in Europe ended with more of a whimper than a bang. Read more
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Prizes of the Line
By Pedro GarciaOne evening around Christmas of 1861 Union Maj. Gen. Henry “Old Brains” Halleck, commanding the Department of Missouri, dined with his chief of staff, Brig. Read more
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A Pyrrhic Parachute Victory in Crete
By Richard RuleIn May 1941, General Kurt Student’s elite paratrooper forces descended like an anvil on the British garrison defending Crete. Read more
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Hamilton Fish III and the “Harlem Hell Fighters”
By Blaine TaylorIn July 1918, 30-year-old U.S. Army Captain Hamilton Fish, Jr., was in war-torn France with the 15th New York National Guard Regiment—also known as the (U.S.) Read more
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Lucian K. Truscott: The Soldier’s General
By Nathan N. PreferIn his Maxims of War, Napoleon Bonaparte wrote, “It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general. Read more
