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Author Archives: Ron Soodalter

Ron Soodalter writes from Cold Spring, N.Y.

Photo of a LCS fairly bristled with guns, including the twin Bofors 40 mm L/60 antiaircraft guns and Mark 22 3-inch/50-caliber bow gun shown here in action off the Philippines in 1945.
Posted inFeature

These Fighting ‘Mighty Midgets’ Packed Big Guns

by Ron Soodalter12/29/20231/12/2024

American LCS gunboats were pound for pound the most heavily armed ships in the Pacific during World War II.

De Gaulle traveling in his Citroen
Posted inFeature

De Gaulle’s Close Call: How France’s Ugliest Car Saved Its President

by Ron Soodalter11/18/202211/7/2022
Abraham Galloway portrait
Posted inStories

How This Escaped Slave Got His Revenge on the Confederacy

by Ron Soodalter10/31/202210/26/2022
Portrait of Cordelia Harvey
Posted inFeature

How One Civil War Widow Revolutionized Health Care

by Ron Soodalter8/24/20222/27/2023
Chechen fighters in Grozny in 1996
Posted inStories

Chechnya: Russia’s Forever War

by Ron Soodalter7/18/20223/22/2023
Posted inFeature

How the South Led the North in Submarine Warfare

by Ron Soodalter3/31/20223/31/2022
Posted inFeature

Americans Had Only Seconds To Escape A V-1 Flying Bomb in London’s Sloane Court

by Ron Soodalter2/1/20222/24/2022
Posted inStories

Meet the Big River Bushwhacker—the Dashing, Dangerous, Illiterate Outlaw Bent on Revenge

by Ron Soodalter1/27/20228/8/2023
Posted inStories

The Cadet Chapel: A Jewel in Military Gothic

by Ron Soodalter1/18/2022
Posted inStories

How the Union Capture of Brown’s Ferry Changed the War in the West

by Ron Soodalter12/9/202112/9/2021

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