Daily Quiz for October 17, 2019

Abraham Lincoln came under enemy fire at this Civil War fort....

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Daily Quiz for October 16, 2019

In Nazi Germany, members of the SS attempted to restart worship of this goddess....

Military History Quarterly

MHQ Crossword Puzzle #1: Civil War Conjuror

Click on the image of the crossword below to download Click here for the answer key...

Aviation History Magazine

Forgotten First Flight Across the South Atlantic

It took three floatplanes and 79 days, but a pair of Portuguese airmen succeeded in crossing the South Atlantic by air five years before Lindbergh’s famous flight. At 0655 hours on March 30, 1922, the heavily laden Fairey IIID...

Civil War Times

Marines Were on the Front Lines the Night Lincoln Was Shot

Leathernecks witnessed the assassination and played a role in the roundup of the conspirators...

America's Civil War

Washington’s Survival Depended on Makeshift Flotilla

Small force of Navy ships battled Confederate guns to keep the Potomac open for traffic ...

Military History Magazine

What We Learned From…The Battle of Mollwitz, 1741

Frederick invaded Silesia, Maria Theresa dispatched a 20,000-man army under Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg to eject him, and the War of the Austrian Succession was on....

Military History Quarterly

Gremlins!

It’s an old pilot’s tale: the idea that airplanes are sometimes infested with tiny mischief makers....

Vietnam Magazine

Boxed in by the Enemy

Marine reconnaissance team Box Score’s fight for survival....

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Daily Quiz for October 15, 2019

This was the standard British hand-grenade from 1915 to 1972....

Military History

Book Review: Rampage

James Scott relates the 1945 Battle of Manila and the devastating toll the Japanese exacted on everyday Filipinos...

Aviation History

Spitfire vs. Hurricane: First RAF Combat of World War II

Eighty years ago, the air war over Britain did not start well for the Royal Air Force in a “friendly fire” incident involving Spitfires and Hurricanes. When Britain declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, the news was greeted...

American History