Volume 18, No. 5
COVER: General George S. Patton Jr. led the U.S. Third Army across France at lightning speed, including the 4th Armored Division, which took on the Germans at Luneville, France, in September 1944.
Photo: National Archives.
March 2017
Military Heritage, Feature
Scouts for the U.S. Third Army on foot and in armored vehicles cautiously approached the town of Luneville on the east side of the Moselle River in the rolling hills of north- eastern France on September 15, 1944. Read more
March 2017
Military Heritage, Feature
From his position opposite the left wing of the Teutonic Knights, Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas watched closely as the Teutonic Order redressed its lines at mid-morning in the already sweltering summer sun. Read more
March 2017
Military Heritage, Feature
A signal rocket set off by Confederate pickets streaked skyward in the damp early morning of February 4, 1862. Read more
March 2017
Military Heritage, Feature
Tired, battered, and bruised, the Spaniards had put up a brave fight, but the enemy had proven too powerful. Read more
March 2017
Military Heritage, Feature
Narrrowly avoiding a fatal blow from the Italian ironclad ram Affondatore, Commodore Anton von Petz, commander of Austrian wooden-hulled ship of the line Kaiser, came under fire from the heavy rifled guns of another enemy ironclad, the Re di Portogallo, on July 20, 1866, near the Dalmatian island of Lissa in the Adriatic Sea. Read more
March 2017
Military Heritage, Editorial
In one of those ironies with which history abounds Polish Duke Conrad of Mazovia in 1226 invited the German Roman Catholic military order known as the Teutonic Knights to assist him in subjugating the unruly, pagan Prussians who were raiding his lands. Read more
March 2017
Military Heritage, Weapons
The men of Bridport on the coast of southwestern England kept extra weapons on hand to deal with the raids endemic during the Hundred Years War that preceded the Wars of the Roses. Read more
March 2017
Military Heritage, Soldiers
On March 5, 1851, a group of Mexican soldiers from Sonora plundered a lightly guarded Apache camp outside the village of Janos in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua 75 miles south of the U.S.-Mexican Read more
March 2017
Military Heritage, Intelligence
“You are probably the nearest to war that you’ll ever be without actually being in it,” said Commander Harold M. Read more
March 2017
Military Heritage, Books
Private First Class Hector Cafferata was dead tired. It was 1:30 am and he was with three other Marines in a forward listening post in front of the rest of their platoon. Read more
March 2017
Military Heritage, Games
Now that we’re comfortably settled into the new year, it’s time to take a look at what 2017 has in store for war gaming. Read more
