Heroism and sacrifice by teenage Virginia Military Institute cadets helped defeat a Union invasion. […]
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Military History Today: March 2014
Former Army Captain Receives Medal of Honor President Barack Obama presented the Medal of […]
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Task Force Faith: Heroism in Korea, 1950
Surrounded and outnumbered, U.S. Army Soldiers battled Chinese troops in desperate combat at Chosin […]
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Rebels at the Gates!
The Confederate campaign that nearly took Washington and the desperate battle that saved the […]
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Dispatches- Armchair General July 2014
Navy Crosses for Two Fallen Marines On January 18, 2014, two Marines, Staff Sergeant […]
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The Helicopter War and Its Effect on Crews Who Fought It
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore (Robert […]
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DMZ Turkey Shoot
U.S. Marine tanks and ARVN troops unload on a North Vietnamese battalion. One of […]
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How Gen. George Patton’s Legend Went From Real to Reel
The Oscar-winning film “Patton” took almost 19 years before finally screening in 1970. That was thanks to producer Frank McCarthy, a World War II general in his own right, and his unwillingness to abandon his dream.
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Dispatches- Armchair General September 2014
24 Distinguished Service Crosses Upgraded to Medals of Honor Twenty-four U.S. Army veterans from […]
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The Lost Patrol of Da Nang
Outnumbered and outgunned, Marines courageously fought for their lives on a killing ground near Da Nang.