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97-Year-Old Silver Star Iwo Jima Veteran to be Oldest Marine Participant in...

A veteran who fought at Iwo Jima during World War II is looking to become the oldest Marine to participate in the annual Marine Corps Marathon. Along with his small team of marathoners, T. Fred Harvey plans to cross the finish line in a...

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Bolivar’s Boy General: Marshal Sucre

Antonio José de Sucre was just 15 when he joined ‘El Libertador’ in the Spanish American wars of independence...

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Camp Shanks: Last Stop, U.S.A.

As the war effort ramped up to full speed, U.S. Army planners turned 2,000 acres of quiet New York farmland into the busiest military embarkation camp in the world....

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Michel Paradis: War and Justice

Michel Paradis relates the 1942 Doolittle Raid against Japan, its repercussions and the fates of those who undertook it...

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The Daring Exploits of ‘Mad Jack’ Churchill

In modern warfare with rifles, machine guns, grenades, and artillery the man who shows up with a broadsword and a bow and arrows would likely be deemed crazy. And perhaps that is how John Malcolm Fleming Thorpe Churchill came to be known...

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Jerome Greene looks at the Northern Cheyennes' desperate and ultimately tragic 1878–79 flight for freedom...

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Book Review: The Imperial Russian Army

Roger Reese examines how the imperial army's failures contributed to Russia's post–World War I collapse into chaos and communism...

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Thanks to Twitter, the ‘Naked Gunner’ Continues to be Remembered 76 Years...

The photograph itself seems incongruous with the surroundings, the situation even. The naked gunner stands flexed, water dripping off his body as he manned his battle station on a Consolidated PBY Catalina. Captured by Horace Bristol, one...

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Vortex of War, Fredericksburg, Va

Situated midway between Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Va., Fredericksburg, Va., was “a position of Manifest importance to us and the enemy,” according to Union Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell in 1862. Its railroad and river access would...

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Nazi Angels of Death

Five notorious female Nazi guards who served the regime with horrifying vigor....

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The Mysterious Death of Mike Turpin

The fate of a military broadcaster in Vietnam in 1972 still leaves doubts and questions...

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Tommy’s Other Guns: Firearms Inventor John T. Thompson

Thompson’s namesake submachine gun became the stuff of legend, but his other firearms and ammunition innovations are nothing to sneeze at...

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November 2020 Readers’ Letters

Readers sound off about trench art, the proximity fuze in maritime combat and D-Day invasion stripes...

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Book Review: The War Queens

Father-daughter authors Jonathan W. and Emily Anne Jordan profile 13 of history's most prominent female war leaders...

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Book Highlights WWII Germany’s Bizarre’s Obsession with Posing with Polar Bear Mascots

“It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”...

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“Screwball” Beurling: The Falcon of Malta

In a few short weeks he downed 27 Axis aircraft. A deeply religious, nonsmoking teetotaler who eschewed profanity and possessed little more than a grade school education, George Beurling was obsessed with flying and shooting and confessed...

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