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A List of American Commanders in WWII Who Lost Their Lives
By Thomas R. CagleyGeneral George S. Patton, Jr., once said, “An army is like a piece of cooked spaghetti. You can’t push it, you have to pull it after you.” Read more
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Operation Fustian: Airborne Assault on the Bridges to Catania
By Mark Simmons‘‘As I floated down, the whole dropping zone seemed to be on fire; tracer bullets had set the tinder-dry stubble alight. Read more
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The M2 4.2-Inch Chemical Mortar
By Christopher MiskimonIn the last days of March 1945, a soldier named Carl Getzel sat on a hill outside the city of Aschaffenburg and watched as it was slowly destroyed. Read more
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USS Murphy: Long Service in Wartime
By William B. AllmonEighty miles off the coast of New Jersey and 280 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean lies the forward section of a World War II destroyer, where it came to rest more than 60 years ago. Read more
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WWII Weapons: M3 37mm Antitank Gun
By Christopher MiskimonThe men of Lieutenant Edwin K. Smith’s antitank platoon, 2nd Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division peered over the gun shields of their 37mm cannon at the column of Vichy French armored cars approaching their roadblock. Read more
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Bitter Fight at Gela
By Christopher MiskimonThe smoke had barely cleared from the battlefields of North Africa when the victorious Allies turned their attention northward to Europe. Read more
