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CH-21 Shawnee, the Flying Banana

Carl O. Schuster | Published: May 15, 2012 at 3:20 pm
The Shawnee troop transport was first deployed to Vietnam in December 1961

Field Workhorse: The M2A1 105mm Howitzer

Jim Laurier | Published: April 23, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Mobile, dependable, and versatile

Reviews - Vietnam Gun Truck

Published: March 19, 2012 at 1:34 pm
In Vietnam Gun Trucks by Gordon L. Rottman, the vehicles' designs, names and markings are given generous treatment in the illustrations and descriptions.

Reviews - The Vietnam War from the Rear Echelon: An Intelligence Officer's Memoir, 1972-1973

Vietnam magazine | Published: March 15, 2012 at 4:38 pm
The Vietnam War from the Rear Echelon, by Timothy J. Lomperis, who served two tours of duty, is both memoir and history, offering a "mid-level" perspective of the rear-echelon war in Saigon

Reviews - The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Vietnam War

Published: March 15, 2012 at 3:54 pm
The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Vietnam War, by David Zierler, provides an examination of the first great ideological battle between nascent environmentalism and cold war dogmatism

Studebaker US6: The Lend-Lease ‘Deuce and a Half’

Jon Guttman | Published: March 01, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Studebaker built tens of thousands of US6 "Deuce and a Half" trucks for the wartime Lend-Lease program, most destined for the Soviet Union.

Heinecke Parachute: A Leap of Faith for WWI German Airmen

Jon Guttman | Published: March 01, 2012 at 4:15 pm
The Heinecke parachute proved a gamble to the first German airmen to use it, but it beat the odds of surviving a fiery plunge from the sky.

What If Werner Heisenberg Had Been a Nazi?

Mark Grimsley | Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Today the name Werner Heisenberg means little, even to highly educated people. But on the eve of World War II, he was a Nobel laureate with a reputation as possibly the world's greatest atomic physicist. So when the community …

The T-34/76: Stalin's Armored Fist

Jim Laurier | Published: November 28, 2011 at 9:50 am
The top tank of the war

What If Germany Had Developed the Atomic Bomb?

Mark Grimsley | Published: November 28, 2011 at 9:50 am
How a Nazi superweapon might have altered the course of the war

Review: Attack on Pearl Harbor

Richard B. Frank | Published: November 28, 2011 at 9:50 am
A new book shows where Japan went wrong at Pearl Harbor

Patton M48A3 Battle Tank

Carl O. Schuster | Published: November 18, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Although designed to combat massed Soviet armored formations, the Patton tank was an invaluable weapon for infantry support and defending firebases

Australia's Centurion Mark 5 Tank

Carl O. Schuster | Published: November 18, 2011 at 2:20 pm
The absence of enemy tanks in Vietnam drove the Centurion into a primarily infantry-support role, with several field modifications

USS Grayback: Secret Submarine Landing Boat

Carl O. Schuster | Published: November 18, 2011 at 1:39 pm
The USS Grayback, whose missions during and after the Vietnam War remain classified, was the only U.S. Navy submarine capable of covertly delivering Marines or Special Forces to an enemy shore

Type 95 Torpedo: The Long Lance of Japan’s Submarine Fleet

Jon Guttman | Published: November 08, 2011 at 5:24 pm
The Type 95 boasted three times the range of its U.S. Navy counterpart, was faster than the electrically driven Mark 18, and it left no wake.

A New Deconstruction of Prokhorovka

Dennis Showalter | Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:34 am
Demolishing the Myth The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative By Valeriy Zamulin. 672 pp. Helion & Company, 2011. $69.95. For anyone interested in the war between Russia and Germany, the battle of Prokhorovka …
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