Some quarter of a million men and women served in this military branch during the war and made a significant contribution to Allied victory.
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Type 89 Heavy Grenade Discharger
The ‘knee mortar’ fired either a fragmentation grenade or a 50 mm shell that detonated on contact
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How Communist Propaganda Efforts Helped this American POW in Vietnam
“I was looking for any way for my family to know I was alive,” Dewey Wayne Waddell recalled
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Book Review: The Stolen Pinkerton Reports of the Colonel Albert J. Fountain Murder Investigation
Editor David Thomas presents Vol. 6 of papers related to the shocking 1896 murders of New Mexico attorney Fountain and his young son
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A Controversial Question: What was the communists’ objective at Khe Sanh in 1968?
Actually, North Vietnam had several motives, some rarely discussed in the literature of the war.
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Meet the WWII Navy Vet Who Survived 26 Combat Crossings
“In rough seas, it was really a clambake, with ships all over the place,” recalls Douglas Burgess, who served on destroyer escort USS Brough during the Battle of the Atlantic.
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Planning for a Victorious South
‘Colossal Ambitions’ examines Confederate expectations for a place as a global power—with slavery
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Saving Sammy B: A Frigate’s Heroic Legacy
“I looked aft, and everything behind the mast was just a wall of flame, towering up into the sky”
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Humor Out at Sea: The Naval Tradition of Zapping
A time-honored naval tradition of wholly embarrassing a pilot while simultaneously causing significant paint damage to a plane worth millions
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Why the Grumman F-14 Tomcat Never Lived Up to Its Reputation
U.S. Navy aircrews and recruiters loved it, but its record suggests the Top Gun mount wasn’t all it was cranked up to be.