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The Irish Brigade in WWII
By Tim NewarkIt was a letter in the London Times that caught the attention of British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Read more
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A Navy Chaplain on Iwo Jima: Doing God’s Work in Hell
By Reverend E. Gage HotalingBACKSTORY: The Reverend E. Gage Hotaling, the son of a Baptist minister, was born in Wellsville, New York, on January 21, 1916. Read more
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Helldiver Lieutenant Klenk
By Robert F. DorrLieutenant William A. “Bill” Klenk, piloting a Curtiss SB2C-3 Helldiver, bristled at the “clawing, miserable weather,” with inverted pyramids of cloud hanging from a low ceiling and gray murk everywhere. Read more
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General Percy Hobart: Britain’s Genius Tanker
By Jon DiamondAn army that will be poised for victory requires élan, military intellect, a penchant for tactical and strategic innovation, and the zeal to use the most qualified individuals for training and leadership. Read more
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Storming the Reichstag in Russia’s ‘Military Disneyland’
By Nicholas VarangisExplosions send fire through the air, aircraft drone overhead, tanks rumble across the cratered ground, and machine guns chatter in murderous conversation on a chaotic battlefield. Read more
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The “Big Wing” Controversy and Hugh Dowding’s Fall From Grace
By Jon DiamondIn the summer of 1940, the vaunted Luftwaffe, fresh from its victories in the skies of France and the Low Countries, began its aerial assault in an attempt to either bring Britain to “peace” terms or destroy the Royal Air Force as a prelude to Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of southeastern England. Read more
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Witnessing Patton’s Failure: A Prisoner’s View of the Task Force Baum Raid
By Eric NiderosIn December 1944 the vaunted Third Reich was in its death throes, crushed by Allied forces on all sides. Read more
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Amazing Photos of the Crash and Rescue of a Torpedo Bomber Off Leyte
By Kevin M. HymelIt was a routine carrier takeoff, but nothing in warfare is ever routine. Lieutenant B. Sevilla launched his TBF Avenger torpedo bomber from the USS Anzio but within seconds he lost control and spun into the water. Read more
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4 Unsolved Mysteries of the Jimmy Doolittle Raid on Tokyo
By Susan ZimmermanApril 18, 1942, will forever live in American military glory as the date of the Jimmy Doolittle Raid on Tokyo––a gutsy, never-before-attempted combat mission to fly North American B-25 Mitchell bombers off the deck of an aircraft carrier and attack an enemy capital. Read more
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Flying With the Fifteenth Air Force
By Tom Row with James BilderOvershadowed by the Mighty Eighth in England, the Fifteenth Air Force flew out of Italy and played no less important—and every bit as dangerous—a role in bombing targets in Nazi Germany and elsewhere. Read more
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The D-Day Invasion Museum
By Flint WhitlockThere is such a treasure trove of fine military museums in Normandy—perhaps more than anywhere else in the world—that we could devote an entire issue to nothing but them. Read more
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The Yorktown Diary of Ed Reynolds
By Pat ReynoldsSuppose you found a magic door that opened onto some of the most crucial battles fought in the Pacific during World War II? Read more
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Soldiers of Juno: The Canadian Invasion of Normandy
By Dorothy BrothertonAs John Wesley Pointon jumped into the cold English Channel water with the Royal Canadian 7th Brigade Signal Corps and struggled with a heavy radio strapped to his back toward the beach that was being torn apart by shot and shell, the farm boy from Saskatchewan tried to make his mind go blank. Read more
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Boeing Wonderland: The Fake Cities on America’s West Coast
By Bill YenneWhen I was a young boy in Seattle, my father told me about a fake town that had been built on top of Boeing’s Plant 2 during the war. Read more
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Marine Air Power in the Philippines
By Eric HammelAfter the Japanese stopped resisting in the skies over Rabaul and pulled their aircraft out of the Solomons and Bismarcks battle area in mid-February 1944, it began to appear that U.S. Read more
