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Baseball Goes to War
By Roy Morris Jr.In December 1941, after four decades of play in the same sixteen eastern and midwestern cities, major league baseball was finally coming to the west coast. Read more
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Pete Ellis: Father of Amphibious Warfare
by Al HemingwayHe suffered from acute alcoholism and severe bouts of depression. As a result of his heavy drinking, he would wander about for days yelling incoherently. Read more
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Helmet Designs Through the Ages
By William J. McPeakBattle helmets shaped to partially cover the face and adorned with various facial features are of ancient origin. Read more
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Operation Matterhorn
by John Kennedy OhlMost writings about World War II tend to attribute the success or failure of military operations to the skill with which generals and admirals handled their forces in battle and to the fighting abilities of soldiers, sailors, and airmen. Read more
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“Viva El Cinco de Mayo!” The Battle of Puebla
By Ron GilliamA hard, late-afternoon rain was falling on May 5, 1862, and the slopes at the foot of Puebla, Mexico’s twin forts were too slippery for another assault. Read more
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The OSS’ Operation Cardinal: Locating General Jonathan Wainwright
By John ManciniOn May 6, 1942, in the Malinta Tunnel, Corregidor Island, General Jonathan Wainwright waited for the Japanese to respond to his surrender offer with a cease-fire. Read more
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“Hurrah, Over You Go Again!”: The High Seas Battle of Portland
By Keith MiltonFor nearly a century, England and the Netherlands were longtime allies in the Eighty Years’ War against the Spanish Empire. Read more
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WWII Veterans: Donald L. Versaw, From Shanghai to Corregidor
By Eric NiderostDonald L. Versaw joined the U.S. Marine Corps on Armistice Day, November 11, 1939. After basic training and a stint in the Marine Corps Operating Base Band in San Diego, he was sent overseas to join the Fourth Marines Band in Shanghai. Read more
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Siege of Rhodes: The Will Of The Hospitallers
By William McPeakAlthough the great Crusades were over by 1309 ad, one old crusading order continued to evolve, flourish, and make enemies—the Knights Hospitallers of St. Read more
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The Battle of Brody: Disaster Along WWII’s Eastern Front
By Pat McTaggartThe German Army found itself facing a massive challenge in the spring of 1944, just months before its total disaster at the Battle of Brody — they were facing the possibility of a war on three fronts. Read more
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Patriots’ Great Day: The Battle of Sullivan’s Island
By Earl EchelberryBy the early 1770s, with a full century of settlement already behind it, Charleston, S.C., had come into its own as a thriving urban center. Read more
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The Murmansk Run: Running the Gauntlet of WWII’s Arctic Convoys
By Flint WhitlockIt was unbelievably dull and uncomfortable duty, often interspersed with moments of sheer terror and the possibility of sudden and violent death. Read more
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Ipo Dam: A Campaign For Water
By David LashIn February 1945, General Douglas MacArthur was poised to begin one of the great battles of his career. Read more
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Harald “Land Waster” Hardradi
by Kenneth ClineFor many history buffs, the date 1066 conjures up an image of Norman knights breaking through the shield wall of the ax-wielding Anglo-Saxons at Senlac Hill. Read more
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Backward in Battle
By Robert F. DorrUp front, guns chattered. Out back, in his pressurized compartment aboard a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber high over Japan, Andy Doty heard a warning shouted over the intercom. Read more
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Franklin Roosevelt’s Pre-Pearl Harbor Intervention Plans
By Donald J. YoungThis is a story of what might have been. If Japan had chosen to attack far-off British Malaya on December 7, 1941, instead of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, President Franklin Roosevelt was prepared to go before Congress and ask—for the first time in American history—for a declaration of war against a nation that had not fired the first shot against us. Read more
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The Striking Cobra: Phase Two of the D-Day Invasion
By David Alan Johnson“We’ve been slogging our way through hedgerow country, half an acre a day, and we’ve got to find a way to break out.” Read more
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D-Day 1943: Could the Allied Invasion of Western Europe Have Happened One Year Earlier?
By Lt. Col. John Fenzel IIIOn June 6, 1944, the Allies unleashed on land, air, and sea the largest invasion force in world history in an enormous effort to liberate Europe from Nazi tyranny. Read more
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WWII Spies: Double Agent Dusko Popov, a.k.a. ‘Tricycle’
By Peter KrossOn March 18, 1941, an accident took place in the crowded streets of New York’s Times Square. Normally an accident like this would not make news. Read more
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Famous Marines: Smedley Butler
By Edward L. BimbergThe annals of the United States Marine Corps are filled with the names of mavericks known not only for their fighting skills, but for their offbeat personalities as well. Read more
