Military Heritage Summer 2020
Austrian Debacle at Rivoli
By Robert L. DurhamTwenty-six year-old Napoleon Bonaparte took command of France’s 23,000-strong Army of Italy in Nice, France, in late March 1796. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2020
The Arab-Israeli Six Day War Timeline
By William WelshJUNE 5
Israel launches a preemptive airstrike known as Operation Focus against Egyptian air bases in the morning with its French-supplied fighter bombers. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2020
British Blunder in the Dodecanese Islands
By Eric NiderostMajor George Jellicoe, head of Britain’s Special Boat Squadron, made a last-minute check on his parachute harness to see if all was ready. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2020
Soviet Operation Bagration Destroyed German Army Group Center
By Victor KamenirOvershadowed by the Allied landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944, the Soviet Union’s Operation Bagration on June 23 is one of the least-covered campaigns of World War II. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2020
World War II’s Most Daring U-boat Attack
By Alexander ZakrzewskiOn the evening of October 13, 1939, sailors aboard the British battleship HMS Royal Oak had no reason to believe they were in danger of anything other than cold and boredom. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2020
Eugene A. Carr’s Heroic Stand
By William E. WelshUnion artillery shells burst in the trees at the north end of Cross Timber Hollow as Confederates in gray and butternut-colored uniforms creeped through the tangled underbrush on both sides of Telegraph Road. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2020
Outfoxed in the Sinai
By Joshua ShepherdLate on the evening of June 5, 1967, a flight of Sikorsky S-58 helicopters sped low above the sands of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2020
The Hitler Jugend SS Panzergrenadier and the Uniform of the Hitler Youth
By Johnny Shumate The paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party known as the Sturmabteilung established the Hitler Jugend in 1926 for the purpose of indoctrinating German youth into Nazi ideology. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2020
Old Fort Erie: the Defiant Stand During the War of 1812
By Mike PhiferThe crash of musketry in the early hours of August 15, 1814, quickly caught the attention of Captain Nathan Towson. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2020
Edmund Kirby Smith: Rebel Lord of the Trans-Mississippi Theater
By David A. NorrisRecently detached from the Army of Tennessee, the Arkansas troops of Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Churchill’s division had not yet met their new commander when the division came under fire at Richmond, Kentucky, on August 30, 1862. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2020
Russian and Soviet armies fought bloody campaigns over the past 100 years first to protect the Motherland and then to project regional power.
By Christopher Miskimon“If you are wounded, pretend to be dead; wait until the Germans come up; then select one of them and kill him! Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2020
The Taylor-Smith feud derailed the Red River Campaign
The feud between Confederate generals Richard Taylor and Kirby Smith remains one of the most contentious examples of in-fighting in the Confederate high command during the American Civil War. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2020
Fight to Survive in Call of Duty’s Take on the Wildly Popular Battle Royale Genre
By Joseph LusterIt’s been a while since Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds first swept everyone up in the battle royale craze, and reigning champion Fortnite is still going strong after all this time. Read more
