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Remembering Torpedo 8 of Midway
By Mark CarlsonIn 1982, Captain Bert Earnest and Commander Harry Ferrier were present at an event to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Battle of Midway. Read more
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Royal Marine of the 2nd Battalion (1813-1815)
By William E. Welsh, Art by Don TroianiAfter nearly 150 years of service to the British crown, the Royal Marines had upwards of 31,000 marines worldwide at the time of the War of 1812, which constituted about 13 percent of the 240,000 British troops under arms around the globe at that time. Read more
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Nick “Cooky” Kukich: Covert Operative in Albania
By John ManciniOn the morning of April 7, 1939, Albania, the smallest of the Balkan countries, was invaded by Benito Mussolini’s Italian Fascist Army. Read more
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Battle of the Bulge: Heroic Stand at Lausdell
By Bill WarnockThree German soldiers crept through the snow. They had infiltrated the American front line during a counterattack. Major William F. Read more
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The 5th U.S. Cavalry: “A Hard Duty” at Gaines Mill
By Donald McConnell & Gustav PersonThe celebrated 2nd U.S. Cavalry, like its brother regiment the 1st U.S. Cavalry, was formally created by an act of Congress in March 1855. Read more
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Dueling Aces in Sevastopol
By Christer Bergström and Andrey MikhailovIn June 1942, the Black Sea port of Sevastopol on the Crimea was the scene of some of the fiercest fighting of World War II. Read more
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Blunder at the Boyne
By Robert L. DurhamDeposed Catholic King James II had come to Ireland with hopes of regaining the throne of England, and after a year of minor successes and setbacks, the time had come for him to make a stand. Read more
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Bulgaria Betwixt and Between
By John W. Osborn, Jr.Though neutral for most of it, few countries had such a Passage through World War II as did Bulgaria. 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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The Battle of Hagerstown
By Daniel MurphyLate in the evening of July 3, 1863, Major General James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart was summoned to the headquarters of Robert E. Read more
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Airborne! Learning to Fly and Land—Hard
Photo Essay by Kevin M. HymelEvery American soldier who jumped into North Africa, Europe, the Philippines and other combat zones around the globe during WWII had to first learn his trade at Fort Benning, Georgia. Read more
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Bloody Clash at the Battle of Ia Drang
By Christopher MiskimonSpecialist 4 George McDonald leaped out of a UH-1 helicopter on November 14, 1965, into a hellish firefight. Read more
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The Browning Automatic Rifle
By William F. Floyd Jr.By dawn on June 9, 1944, the men of the Company C, 1st Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, of the 82nd Airborne Division found themselves engaged in a fierce firefight with German troops at the village of Cauquigny just west of the Merderet River in Normandy’s Cotentin Peninsula. Read more
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Dominique Jean, Baron Larrey
By Eric NiderostIt was late November, 1812, and the fate of Napoleon’s Grande Armee hung in the balance. Several Russian armies were closing in, but if the French crossed the 300-foot-wide Berezina River, the bedraggled survivors of a once great army might still manage to escape the trap. Read more
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OSS Spymaster Allen Dulles
By Peter KrossDuring World War II, Switzerland was one of the few neutral countries to survive unscathed amid the death and destruction that was being heaped upon the rest of Europe. Read more
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British Paratrooper at Arnhem: An Interview With James Sims
By Eric NiderostQ: Could you give us a little personal background before we talk about your war experiences?
SIMS: I was born on April 29, 1925, at Sheffield in Yorkshire. Read more
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The Death of General Robert McCook
By Stuart W. SandersWhen the Civil War erupted, so many of Lisbon, Ohio-born Robert McCook’s large extended family joined the Union Army that the clan became known as the “Fighting McCooks.” Read more
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From Pilot to POW
By Allyn Vannoy
Six B-17G’s of the 416th Bombardment Squadron of the 99th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, led by Captain B.E. Read more
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Grand Assault On Gibraltar
By David A. NorrisGreat Britain’s war with her rebellious American colonies was about to conclude as diplomats crafted a peace treaty. Read more
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Defeat from the Jaws of Victory?
By Mark CarlsonWith all it had going for it, how did Germany manage to lose World War II? There are many answers to this deceptively simple question, including the obvious one that the Allies had the technical and industrial advantage. Read more
