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Back to Bataan
By Nathan N. PreferShortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese caught the United States Army Air Forces units in the Philippines on the ground late on December 8. Read more
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High Stakes at Salamis
By Erich B. AndersonAs the sun rose shortly after dawn on a morning in late September 480 BC, 170 rowers densely packed on three tiers within an Athenian warship strenuously pushed their oars to propel their vessel forward as fast as possible. Read more
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The U.S. Army M1910 Pattern Combat Equipment Web Belt
By Peter SuciuThe American combat soldier today looks quite a bit different from his ancestor of 100 years ago. Besides the style of uniform, which now features a digital camouflage pattern to blend into desert surroundings, the fabrics today are far more breathable than the heavy wool that was worn when American soldiers went “Over There” in World War I. 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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Battle of Mechanicsville: McClellan’s Unexploited Victory
By John WalkerAfter an almost uninterrupted, four-month-long string of Union successes beginning in early 1862, followed by the advance of a 100,000-man enemy army to the eastern outskirts of its capital at Richmond, Virginia, the Confederacy suddenly found itself in a life-or-death struggle for its very survival. Read more
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Ninth Air Force Captured In Brushstrokes
By Kevin M. HymelThe Ninth Air Force officially arrived in England when General Lewis H. Brereton set up his headquarters in Sunninghill Park, Berkshire, on October 16, 1943. Read more
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James Andrews vs. William Fuller in the Great Locomotive Chase
By Don HollwayBy early April 1862, the Civil War was already closing in on the South, but the trains still ran on time. Read more
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The Battle of Iwo Jima: Red Sun, Black Sand
By John WalkerNo foreign army in the 5,000-year history of Japan had ever successfully conquered Japanese territory. In late 1944, American war planners were about to challenge that statistic on the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Read more
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Storm Of Arrows
By William E. WelshFor nearly half a millennium the crossbow and longbow served as the predominant missile weapons for field armies in Western Europe. Read more
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Savage Model 1907: Rival of the Colt M1911
By Steve LilleyIn the 1939 movie The Real Glory, elite U.S. Army officers arrive in the southern Philippines to mold the Filipinos into a military force to defend their villages against marauding Moro tribesmen. Read more
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Model’s Failure in Command
By Pat McTaggartColonel General Walter Model was a rising star in the German ArFmy in early 1943. The son of a music teacher, Model was born on January 24, 1891, in Genthin, Saxony-Anhalt. Read more
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Battle for Jerusalem
By William E. WelshThe barefoot crusaders tramped slowly underneath a blazing sun behind bishops and priests chanting and holding aloft relics on July 8, 1099. Read more
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City Under Siege: The New York Draft Riots
By Rick BeardFor four breathlessly hot days in mid-July 1863, New York City became the northernmost battleground of the Civil War. Read more
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Target: Das Reich
By Mark CarlsonAboard each of the hundreds of Liberators and Flying Fortresses that daily left the soil of England bound for targets in Germany were ten young men. Read more
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The CIA Assassination of Rafael Trujillo
By Peter KrossThe United States from 1959 to 1961 turned its focus to two of the most charismatic, ruthless, and despotic rulers in the Caribbean region, Fidel Castro of Cuba and Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. Read more
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Eternal City Liberated
By Michael E. HaskewItaly was unforgiving. German resistance to Allied operations had been brutal since the Salerno landings in the autumn of 1943, and by the following spring frustration had mounted upon frustration. Read more
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For Gold And Blood
By William E. WelshThe rain poured in sheets as the long column of French troops snaked its way through the Apennine Mountains of southern Italy along roads washed out by heavy rains. Read more
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The Crater: Explosion of Death
By John WalkerIt was just after 3 am on Saturday, July 30, 1864. A month of relative quiet along a two-mile stretch of Union and Confederate trench lines immediately east of Petersburg, Virginia, was about to come to an explosive end. Read more
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Baiting the Russian Bear: The Siege of Port Arthur
By Eric NiderostOn the chilly night of February 8, 1904, the Imperial Russian Navy’s Pacific Squadron lay peacefully at anchor just outside Port Arthur’s main harbor. Read more
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To attack targets from a steep angle, Curtiss developed the SB2C Helldiver—“The Beast.”
By Joseph Frantiska, Jr.
At the beginning of WWII, the U.S. Navy needed a combat aircraft that could meet several requirements: it had to serve as an attack fighter that could conduct precision dive-bombing and ground-support (strafing) operations yet still be small enough to be delivered to battle zones by aircraft carrier. Read more
