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Battle of Cape Ecnomus & the First Punic War

By Marc G. De Santis

“But so long as the Carthaginians held unchallenged control of the sea, the issue of the war still hung in the balance. Read more

At the Pearl Harbor Attack and other locations, the Japanese would often employ kesshi, or 'dare to die tactics.'

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Japanese Suicide Attacks at Pearl Harbor and Beyond

by David Alan Johnson

The deliberate crashing into enemy targets by Japanese aviators did not begin at the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands. Read more

Robert Taylor’s painting Valor in the Pacific shows Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 499th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force, headed home to bases in the Marianas after dropping their cargoes of death and destruction on Tokyo. Low on fuel, their escort of P-51 Mustang fighters begins to turn away toward bases of their own.

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Prelude to Iwo Jima: The Japanese Assault On B-29 Base On Marianas

By Michael P. Slater

From an altitude of 30,000 feet, the swift Japanese reconnaissance aircraft flew high over Saipan and Tinian, photographing the brisk and extensive engineering effort under way on the American airfields far below. Read more

Battle of Cape Ecnomus & the First Punic War

Japanese Suicide Attacks at Pearl Harbor and Beyond

Prelude to Iwo Jima: The Japanese Assault On B-29 Base On Marianas

From Around the Network

SEALs: the Birth of the Navy’s ‘Special Warfare’ Force

Collecting Identification Tags

The Gothic Line: How the Allies Breached Germany’s Defenses in Italy

The Baker Rifle: Why it was so Accurate, Deadly, and Dependable