Operation A-Go was meant to trap the U.S. Fifth Fleet in the Marianas. What followed was a disaster for Japan — and a turkey shoot for the Americans.
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Korean War: The Boeing B-29 Superfortress Served Throughout the Air War
In spite of the daunting threat of enemy jet fighters, Boeing B-29s served throughout the Korean War.
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U.S. Army’s B Company, 504th Military Police Battalion Patrolled Central Highlands Highways During the Vietnam War
The B Company ‘Roadrunners’ of the 504th Military Police Battalion faced Viet Cong land mines and ambushes as they patrolled the notorious roads of the Central Highlands.
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Gilbert Islands Campaign: Capturing Makin Atoll
While Marines fought a desperate battle for Tarawa, the capture of nearby Makin Atoll was primarily an Army operation.
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Pappy Gunn (Book Review)
Reviewed by Walter J. Boyne By Nathaniel Gunn AuthorHouse, 2004, Bloomington, Ind. Pappy Gunn […]
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Japanese Aircraft Equipment: 1940-1945 (Book Review)
Reviewed by C.V. Glines By Robert C. Mikesh Schiffer Military History, Atglen, Pa., 2004 […]
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USS Lexington: Walter Hassell Recalls the Torpedo Attack That Ended Lady Lex
The waterway at deck’s edge was neatly lined with shoes, and…a short while later, terrible to behold, every doorway, hatch or open space was ablaze.
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Air America: Played a Crucial Part of the Emergency Helicopter Evacuation of Saigon
The last assignment of the CIA’s Far East airline was one of its most hectic: airlift more than one thousand people to safety from Saigon rooftops just prior to North Vietnam’s capture of the city.
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Memoirs of Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, Chief of the Aeronautic Corps of the Army of the United States During the Civil War: My Balloons in Peace and War (Book Review)
Reviewed by Keith Miller By Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, edited by Michael Jaeger and Carol […]
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Luis Fortin: World War II Bomber Pilot
Bomber pilot Luis Fortin was a rare bird among World War II airmen: an Argentine-born volunteer in a Free French squadron in Britain’s Royal Air Force, flying an American-built plane.