THE JAPANESE assault on the Chinese is one of the least well- known facets […]
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War Letters: A Navy Doctor Describes His Unusual Service in the Gobi Desert
IN 1943, 23-YEAR-OLD New Yorker Henry J. Heimlich left medical school to enlist in […]
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At War with the Enemy’s Mind: Conversation with Betty McIntosh
MOST FEMALE spies in World War II weren’t Mata Haris. Witness Elizabeth “Betty” McIntosh […]
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The Reading List: Stanley McChrystal
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand (2010) […]
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WWII Today: June 2013
Midway Discovery Raises Profile of Late, Mostly Unlamented Fighter Few mourned the fate of […]
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Arsenal | The NVA’s ‘Quick Change’ Machine Gun
The Soviet-made PK general purpose machine gun—never as widely employed as the ubiquitous the […]
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CH-47C Chinook Helicopter
The CH-47 arose from a 1956 decision to replace the U.S. Army’s piston-engine helicopters […]
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The 7.62mm RPD: The NVA’s Soviet Light Machine Gun
A popular automatic weapon with North Vietnamese infantry squads, the Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryov, or […]
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Arsenal | M79 Grenade Launcher
Developed in the 1950s and entering service in 1961 to replace rifle grenades as […]
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Daily Quiz for April 21, 2017
In 425 AD these people were banned from holding public office in the Roman Empire.