Volume 4, No. 5
Cover: The RAF takes on Baron von Richtofen’s JG-1 Flying Circus over northern France in Knights of the Sky by Nicolas Trudgian. Courtesy of The Military Art Gallery.
April 2003
Military Heritage
Colonel John F. Hartranft surveyed the blue-jacketed ranks to his front with a mixture of frustration and humiliation, and some of the men returned the favor. Read more
April 2003
Military Heritage
With muffled oars, the longboat sent by Admiral Horatio Nelson glided silently through the darkness of the enemy’s anchorage—at one point its sailors were close enough to the Danish ships to overhear the conversations of the sentinels. Read more
April 2003
Military Heritage
Royalist knights under the command of Prince Edward of England rode with furious speed toward the thousands of London militia who had been sent to set fire to the town of Lewes. Read more
April 2003
Military Heritage
By the time of the waning of the summer of 1944 in western Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s victorious Allied armies had forged a battle line from the Dutch province of Maastricht in the north to Belfort near the Swiss border in the south. Read more
April 2003
Military Heritage
Translated and with comments by O’Brien Browne
This combat diary account by Robert Ritter von Greim describes the frantic attempts of the German Air Force to halt Allied attacks in the closing months of WWI. Read more
April 2003
Military Heritage
In June 24, 1867, W.W. Wright’s survey expedition reached Fort Wallace, Kans., one of the string of military posts that guarded the Smoky Hill Trail to Denver and the beckoning goldfields of Colorado. Read more
April 2003
Military Heritage, Editorial
Military commanders might nearly always be odd mixtures: using violent means for ends they consider justified. But some we can only view with consternation. Read more
April 2003
Military Heritage, Communique
Dear Editor:
I certainly enjoyed A.B. Feuer’s article on the Battle of the Kokoda Track (October 2002). In the summer of 1962 I was stationed with the 1370th Photomapping Wing’s Aerial Survey Team #5 at Port Moresby, New Guinea. Read more
April 2003
Military Heritage, Weapons
The year was ad 678, 46 years after the death of the prophet Mohammed. Now the Mohammedans, determined to bring the light of Islam to Arabia and beyond, were streaking across the whole of the Middle East like a comet. Read more
April 2003
Military Heritage, Intelligence
Darkness had settled over the harbor, the lights along the shoreline casting a faint glow on the murky harbor water. Read more
April 2003
Military Heritage, Soldiers
In September 1948, Lt. Gen. Walton Harris Walker, 58, took over command of the Eighth Army on occupation duty in Japan from his predecessor, Robert Eichelberger, a former West Point superintendent and devotee of Allied Supreme Commander General Douglas MacArthur. Read more
April 2003
Military Heritage, Militaria
The swords of the samurai have long been desirable to collectors. Now, even their parts have become prized. Read more
April 2003
Military Heritage, Books
Kill them, Lieutenant. Don’t take any prisoners,” exhorted the bedraggled engineer officer to the new replacements, “Don’t take any prisoners!” Read more
April 2003
Military Heritage, Simulation Gaming
Cossacks: Back to War, from CDV for the PC, is the third in the Cossacks series of games. Read more
