Spring 2021
Military Heritage
The British Empire Strikes Back
By Mike PhiferThe crew of the HMS Alexandria waited anxiously for battle in the minutes before 7:00 am on July 11, 1882. Read more
Volume 23, No. 1
Cover: A Navy SEAL, photographed during a training exercise in California, carries a FN SCAR-H (Mk 17) rifle. See story, page 14. Photo: U.S. Navy.
Spring 2021
Military Heritage
The crew of the HMS Alexandria waited anxiously for battle in the minutes before 7:00 am on July 11, 1882. Read more
Spring 2021
Military Heritage
By Joshua Shepherd
At midnight of June 6, 1944, a trio of Halifax bombers, each towing a Horsa glider, roared above the black waters of the English Channel. Read more
Spring 2021
Military Heritage
By Robert L. Durham
Prince Rupert eyed the Parliamentarian position atop the low ridge south of the village of Newbury on the morning of September 20, 1643, with deep concern. Read more
Spring 2021
Military Heritage
By David A. Norris
Brig. Gen. George Gordon Meade’s division spent three hours bombarded by Confederate guns on December 13, 1862. Read more
Spring 2021
Military Heritage
It was nighttime, and a great battle was soon to be fought at Gaugamela, in the dusty plains and rolling hills of modern-day northern Iraq. Read more
Spring 2021
Military Heritage
By Eric Niderost
Peter Drake was a cavalryman, but at the moment he was standing near his horse’s head, holding his mount’s bridle and calming the beast when the animal grew restless after a night of inactivity. Read more
Spring 2021
Military Heritage
Bright sunshine flooded the sedge-covered, damp ground in Sussex on the morning of October 14, 1066. Having attended mass at sunrise, Duke William of Normandy shouted commands to his senior officers outlining their positions for the coming battle with English King Harold II Godwinson’s army. Read more
Spring 2021
Military Heritage, Editorial
George Gordon Meade did not want command of the Army of the Potomac when it was thrust upon him on the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg seven months after the Union defeat at Fredericksburg, but he had the distinction of being the division commander who had led the successful Union assault during the bloody battle in December 1862 on the south side of the Rappahannock River. Read more
Spring 2021
Military Heritage, Soldiers
“A soldier in every phrase of the term, able and skillful, on many a bloody field he demonstrated his ability and courage,” Brig. Read more
Spring 2021
Military Heritage, Uniform
Headgear: Since leather caps were unavailable, the regiment was outfitted with felt hats trimmed with hair crests. Read more
Spring 2021
Military Heritage, Weapons
From the sniper’s perch, the city of Fallujah, Iraq, on November 7, 2004, looked dusty and brown. Most of the buildings were squat, two-story affairs, with the occasional minaret or domed mosque sitting above them. Read more
Spring 2021
Military Heritage, Valor
German Luftwaffe pilot First Lieutenant Gordon Gollob moved in for the kill at midafternoon on December 18, 1939, with his Messerschmitt Bf 110 against a formation of seven British Vickers Wellington medium bombers heading home from their bomb run against German battle cruisers in Wilhelmshaven harbor. Read more
Spring 2021
Military Heritage, books
On October 8, 1918, soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 328th Infantry Regiment arrived at Hill 223 and started dying. Read more
Spring 2021
Military Heritage, Games
Based on true stories from the Second Battle for Fallujah in 2004, Six Days in Fallujah was originally announced back in 2009 but was eventually cancelled. Read more