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Weapons: The M50A1 Ontos

With its six recoilless rifles, the Ontos was a welcome addition to the Marine Corps arsenal during the Vietnam War.

25 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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Mogami: Japan’s Luckless Cruiser

The career of the Mogami was marked by mishaps and battles with the U.S. Navy during World War II.

25 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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French Collapse at Maida

Campaigning in southern Italy in 1806, Jean Reynier’s French army found itself in an unexpected confrontation with Sir John Stuart’s British expeditionary army. The steadier force prevailed.

25 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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Caught in the Chinese Conflict

Expecting to be sent home after World War II, U.S. Marines found themselves in the middle of the Chinese civil war.

25 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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High-Spirited Stupidity

Paratrooper Bill Yarborough, an icon of airborne warfare during World War II, lost his command but conquered his pride.

24 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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The U.S. Navy’s Defective Mark 14 Torpedo

From duds to deadly, the Mark 14 torpedo was troublesome for American submariners during the early days of World War II.

24 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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Combat in Normandy’s Hedgerows

After D-Day, conducting routine patrols became a deadly game of cat and mouse in the bocage.

24 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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World War II’s Quiet Marine

General Harry Schmidt played a key role in the U.S. Marine march across the Pacific during World War II.

24 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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Cherbourg’s Bloody Toll

The capture of this major city on the Normandy coast of France gave the Allies the deepwater port they needed, but the facilities were badly damaged by the Germans.

24 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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Back to Bataan

Clearing the Japanese from the peninsula on the island of Luzon proved a difficult task after General Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines.

24 April 2020

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To Die in the Marianas

Expecting a swift victory at Saipan, Guam, and Tinian in the Marianas, U.S. forces encountered a ferocious Japanese banzai attack and stiff resistance during weeks of fighting.

24 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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Immortal Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854 was by no means a blunder. Despite the heavy losses, the brave horsemen helped derail the Russian attack.

24 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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Pickett’s Charge: “We Gained Nothing But Glory”

In the humid stillness of a July afternoon, 12,000 Confederate troops began marching slowly across open farmland toward the aptly named Cemetery Ridge. “This is a desperate thing to attempt,” said one Rebel general to another.

24 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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Panzer Lehr Division’s Assault on Bastogne

Fritz Bayerlein’s elite Panzer Lehr Division was one of the spearheads of Hitler’s last major offensive in the West, the Battle of the Bulge.

24 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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The Few, the Proud, the Black Marines in World War II

Faced with racial discrimination at home and in the Corps, African American Marines proved themselves at Iwo Jima and elsewhere during World War II.

24 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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