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Vietnam
Images of 11 helicopters that played a vital role in the Vietnam War. ...
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Military History Magazine
FOLLY OF COMMAND ON TRIANGLE HILL “Attack on Triangle Hill” (Military History, January/February 2006) omitted some relevant facts. First, then-Lieutenant Peter R. Johnson’s unit was the 3rd Platoon of the 388th Chemical Company....
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Military History Magazine
Miller O. Perry rejects claims that Lt. Col. Charles B. Smith and the troops of Task Force Smith failed to adequately stem the 1950 North Korean invasion of South Korea. On July 4, 1950, two U.S. Army officers stood on a scrubby hilltop...
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Military History Magazine
Captain Kenneth Ruiz calls surviving three wars just ‘the luck of the draw.’ On August 8, 1942, newly commissioned Ensign Kenneth Ruiz drew cards with a fellow officer to determine who would have the privilege of manning a battle...
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Military History Magazine
Korea, the “Hermit Kingdom,” was— and is—the last Far Eastern nation to hold out against European influence. China had felt the shame of defeat during the humiliating Opium War in 1842. Japan had opened its doors to the modern...
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Military History Magazine
In 1871 the U.S. Navy and Marines mounted a punitive expedition against Korea, a kingdom that wanted nothing to do with the modern Western world...
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Military History Magazine
In a new book, author and historian Ronald H. Spector (author of the 1985 classic In the Ruins of Empire Eagle , Against the Sun: The American War with Japan) focuses on a blind spot in military history: the bitter, multifaceted struggles...
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American History Magazine
Durham White Stevens’ assassination in San Francisco in 1908 was an indirect result of U.S. imperial interests in the Far East. “Japan is doing in Korea and for the Koreans what the United States is doing in the Philippines,”...
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Vietnam Magazine
The Blue Dragon Marine Brigade’s service in Vietnam earned it a legendary reputation. On October 9, 1965, Brigadier General Lee Bong Chool and the Korean 2nd Marine Brigade debarked in Cam Ranh Bay. Speaking to reporters who had come to...
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World War II Magazine
Japan Enslaves Koreans—Twice Kim Hui-jong was forced to work as a slave laborer for Japan, lost part of his hearing in the fighting on Saipan, and spent two years at a POW camp in Hawaii. Then he returned home to Korea and tried to build...
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Military History Magazine
How the foresight and tactical brilliance of Marine Maj. Gen. O.P. Smith saved his division from annihilation in North Korea. One of the little-known aspects of the Chosin Reservoir campaign was that Maj. Gen. Oliver P. Smith, the...
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HistoryNet, Mag: Vietnam Featured, Vietnam Magazine
“Refighting the last war” ensured U.S. defeat....
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Military History Magazine
Sent to delay the North Korean communist wave at the outset of the Korean War, Task Force Smith became an object lesson in military hubris. There should be, somewhere in the annals of American military history, a compendium of battlefield...
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Aviation History, Mag: Aviation History Featured
Setting down on a carrier is difficult under the best conditions—but next to impossible if you can’t see....
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Discussions
Are recent maritime incidents and disputes over sovereignty claims between South and North Korea, China and Japan signs of a renewed Cold War or simply the continuation of age-old cultural tensions?...
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Ask Mr. History
How large of a role did the North Korean army play in the Korean Conflict after the Chinese intervention? —AB ? ? ? Dear AB, If you were celebrating “Victory Day” in Pyongyang on July 27, you probably thought the North Korean...
