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Collecting Field Manuals
By Peter SuciuIt has long been said that there is a right way to do things, a wrong way to do things—and the military way to do things. Read more
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“A Hell of a Good Place to Die”
By Christopher MiskimonCorporal Michael Kurtz stood on the deck of an attack transport ship sitting off the Normandy coast. Gazing out over the ship’s railing in the pre-dawn hours, he could see the ship’s crew working the davits and ropes for the landing craft. Read more
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Union Lieutenant Alonzo Cushing
By William E. WelshOne of the smoothbore cannons in Captain Merritt B. Miller’s Third Company of the Washington Artillery deployed west of Emmitsburg Road just south of the town of Gettysburg fired a single round at 1:07 p.m. Read more
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The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Flew Deep into Enemy Territory
By John EmmertSecond Lieutenant John Bosko was flying his seventh mission on August 24, 1944. He was reasonably seasoned as far as bomber commanders went but was unaware of his target’s macabre reputation. Read more
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Matthew Ridgway’s Eighth Army at Seoul
By John WalkerAs Lt. Gen. Matthew Ridgway boarded a flight to Tokyo, Japan, on December 23, 1950, on his way to a meeting with General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, he was not fully aware of the depth of the crisis still unfolding on the frozen Korean peninsula, where American-led United Nations forces and their South Korean allies, who were seemingly on the verge of complete victory in North Korea, were now suddenly on the brink of collapse and perhaps outright defeat. Read more
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Normandy Breakout
By Brian Todd CareyConcentrated against the beaches of Normandy on June 6, Operation Overlord landed 9 army divisions plus support troops on five beaches in anticipation of a breakout across France and toward Berlin. Read more
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Crusader Calamity at Damascus
By William E. WelshThe hot sun beat down on the mud-brick and wooden buildings, the lush orchards, and the patchwork of pastoral fields around the oval-shaped, walled city of Damascus in southern Syria on the morning of July 24, 1148. Read more
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Wake Island: Japan’s First Setback
By Nathan N. PreferIt didn’t look like much—just a speck in the vast ocean. Most travelers spent only a night in the Pan American Hotel and never ventured far from the small adjoining airfield. Read more
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Reckoning at Horseshoe Bend
By Christopher G. MarquisIn the late summer of 1813, some 550 men, women, and children took refuge within a small wilderness outpost and waited for the worst. Read more
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Faces of War
A Photo Essay 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
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Austrian Debacle at Rivoli
By Robert L. DurhamTwenty-six year-old Napoleon Bonaparte took command of France’s 23,000-strong Army of Italy in Nice, France, in late March 1796. Read more
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Panzer Fury at Caen
By Kelly BellThe black uniformed German panzer crews climbed into their Panther tanks at 10 pm on June 8, 1944. Read more
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Uniform: Hussite Peasant of the 15th Century
By William E. WelshThe 15-year-long Hussite War erupted in Bohemia in 1419 between the followers of martyred Czech theologian Jan Hus and the Roman Catholic Church. Read more
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How Paratroopers Earned Their Wings
Photo Essay By Kevin M. HymelEvery American soldier who jumped into North Africa, Europe, the Philippines, and other combat zones around the globe during World War II had to first learn his trade at Fort Benning, Georgia. Read more
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J.E.B. Stuart and Kilpatrick Butt Heads at Buckland Mills
By Arnold BlumbergFor the Federal government at Washington, D.C., the news from Tennessee was grim in late September 1863. The Union Army of the Cumberland, under Maj. Read more
