Letters from Readers
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Published: May 15, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Those Beautiful Evil Eyes
Reading "Rescue in Death Valley" (April) relating to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 163, the "Evil Eyes," took me back to Aug. 8, 1966. I was a platoon sergeant with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 3rd …
Published: May 09, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Broadening our horizons
I appreciated the articles on the Monitor in the March 2012 issue but there were a few inaccuracies. The cover statement that Monitor made "every other warship obsolete" is only true if we mean every other warship …
Published: May 03, 2012 at 11:01 pm
Readers letters in the July 2012 issue of Military History sound off about the Pearl Harbor legacy of the fated Argentinian light cruiser General Belgrano, the Boxer Rebellion, Roman emperors, Francis Scott Key, the Northrop P-61, George Washington's home brew and our talented cartographer Steve Walkowiak.
Published: March 30, 2012 at 7:11 pm
In the June issue of Wild West, readers share dispatches about photographer John Swartz, Buffalo Bill, Homestead National Monument, desperadoes of the Ozarks, the two Emma Mastersons and Tennessean Clay Allison.
Published: March 28, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Hollow Victory
In "Pieces of Peace" (From America's Attic, April 2012), the shortened quote from Ulysses S. Grant's Memoirs about the Confederate surrender left out his judgment about why the Civil War was fought. The complete quote: "I felt like …
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Published: March 19, 2012 at 11:05 am
Tet 'Quickly Overwhelmed?'
The February article by Rod Paschall about Tet 1968 in Saigon ("The Center of the Storm") notes the United States "swiftly crafted a crushing counterattack" that "quickly overwhelmed" the Viet Cong in the battle for Saigon. U.S. …
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Published: March 13, 2012 at 5:53 pm
We Were Lob Bombed Too
Following up on General Stanley Cherrie's article (December, "Case of the Mysterious Lob Bomb"), I was a first lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines, headquartered on Hill 55 southwest of Da Nang in the …
Published: March 01, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Readers letters in the May 2012 issue of Military History sound off about the causes of war, author Andrew Roberts, race relations in the military, Pearl Harbor and great escapes in military history.
Published: February 05, 2012 at 6:18 pm
In the April issue of Wild West, readers chime in on the Fort Worth Five photograph, Finn Burnett and the very much alive town of Columbia, Calif.
Published: January 27, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Founding Fakes?
Woody Holton's piece on George Washington's moral journey (February 2012) is too short to prove his thesis. It provided insight into "Father" George's early machinations, but little is presented to show that he became a moral person. What …
Published: January 06, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Readers letters in the March 2012 issue of Military History sound off about the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, race relations in the U.S. military and military decorations.
Published: December 01, 2011 at 6:31 pm
In the February issue of Wild West, readers bend our ears about Old West writer Eugene Field, big-screen look-alikes, Smith & Wesson No. 3s, Arizona gun laws, and a long-forgotten gunfight in Bodie, Calif.
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Published: November 14, 2011 at 5:03 pm
No Enemy Flamethrowers?
In the article "Zippos in Vietnam" (June) it was stated that the enemy didn't have flamethrowers. First, I remember one instance during my time in Lam Dong Province where the command bunker of a Regional Force company …
Published: November 04, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Readers letters in the January 2012 issue of Military History sound off about history's great military escapes, Pancho Villa's war movie, General Douglas MacArthur, the Irish Brigade, counterinsurgencies and Richard the Lionheart.
Published: October 06, 2011 at 5:01 pm
In the December issue of Wild West, readers bend our ears about Texas badmen, Pat Garrett, frontier surveyors and personal recollections of the West.
Published: September 14, 2011 at 11:16 am
Messin' With Texas
I always enjoy reading articles about my native state of Texas, but I was deeply disappointed by Gregory Curtis' contention in "Lone Star Nation" (October 2011) that "the geography of the state is relatively uniform." Mr. Curtis …
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