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Bridge House Hotel: Crimes of the Kempeitai in Shanghai
By Eric NiderostBy the 1930s, Shanghai was already a legend in its own time––the most modern, populous, and decadent city in China. Read more
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The Fall of Beijing, 1937
By Jiaxin DuMost people think that World War II broke out on September 1, 1939, when the Wehrmacht crossed the German-Polish border. Read more
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Chinese Alamo: Last Stand at Sihang Warehouse
By Eric NiderostOn October 27, 1937, the Zhabei district of Shanghai began to burn, an enormous conflagration that stretched for five miles and filled the northern horizon from end to end, almost as far as the eye could see. Read more
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Korea Under the Rising Sun
By Allyn VannoyThe first recorded encounter between American forces and Koreans in the Central Pacific during World War II came at Tarawa Atoll in November 1943. Read more
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Top Flying Tiger: General Claire Chennault
by Michael D. HullLaden with 500-pound bombs and incendiaries, 10 Japanese twin-engine Mitsubishi Ki21 Sally bombers took off from the Hanoi airfield in Indochina on the morning of Saturday, December 20, 1941. Read more
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The Long Lance Torpedo at Guadalcanal
by David Alan JohnsonThe bogey man of the U.S. Navy during the Guadalcanal campaign was not the Zero fighter or the I-class submarine. Read more
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Tragedy at Hong Kong: The Ordeal of C Force
by Jerome M. BaldwinBy the 1930s the security Hong Kong had enjoyed since its acquisition by the British Empire in 1842 was a memory. Read more
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A Memorable Marine Mascot
By Eric NiderostSoochow was a mongrel dog with a remarkable gift for self-preservation. A homeless stray, he attached himself to some U.S. Read more
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Colonel Hiromishi Yahara’s Story at Okinawa
by John WalkerIt was Colonel Hiromishi Yahara who designed and implemented the jiykusen, or the yard-by-yard battle of attrition that cost the American forces so many casualties in the three-month battle, and he was the highest ranking officer to survive the battle and make it back to Tokyo. Read more
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The Fall Of Shanghai: Prelude To The Rape Of Nanking & WWII
By Eric NiderostIn the 1930s Shanghai was in its heyday, a teeming metropolis of some 3.5 million people. The great city was a fascinating blend of cultures, its very existence refuting Rudyard Kipling’s famous aphorism. Read more
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A Dangerous Mission for General Maxwell Taylor of 82nd Airborne
by Eric NiderostAt 8:30 on the evening of September 7, 1943, an Italian military ambulance entered Rome carrying two American prisoners of war. Read more
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World War 1 Battleships: The American Destroyer
by Brad ReynoldsThe dawn of the 20th Century was a liminal period for American foreign policy, and subsequently, naval tactics and technology. Read more
