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Old Soldiers: Pacific B-17 Armed Transports
A dozen battered B-17s served as armed transports in the Pacific, dropping supplies and strafing Japanese positions.
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The Big Business of Bahamian Blockade Running
Fortunes were made and lost, goodwill mixed with wild speculation in a peculiar atmosphere […]
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Joe Hooker’s Chancellorsville
The general stood at the brink of victory in May 1863—and then it all […]
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The Man Who Foiled the Other Assassin
How an unknown Army sergeant saved William Seward’s life and thwarted the ultimate success […]
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The Gray Ghost’s Death Lottery
The innocence of war was long gone by 1864 as John Mosby and his […]
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Behind the Horsepower of Civil War Armies
Despite the available technology of roads and steamships, Civil War armies were supplied much […]
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Dueling Diatribes at the Second Battle of Fredericksburg
On the morning May 3, 1863, a majority of the men in General Robert […]
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Battling for Bluegrass at Perryville
Columns of Confederate infantry, artillery and cavalry darkened Kentucky’s roads in the late summer […]
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Book Review: Tidal Wave
Thomas Cleaver resumes his narrative of the Pacific War, from Leyte Gulf to the Japanese surrender on Sept. 2, 1945