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Hall of Valor | Harvey Barnum
The Marine rushed through a hail of enemy fire. Harvey Curtiss “Barney” Barnum […]
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WWII Book Review: Those Angry Days
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939–1941 By […]
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The Lockheed SR-71: America’s First Stealth Aircraft
On July 26, 1968, the North Vietnamese fired two SA-2 surface-to-air missiles at SR-71A […]
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True Fiction: The Caine Mutiny
Why a classic World War II story always matters. Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny […]
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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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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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Arsenal | M79 Grenade Launcher
Developed in the 1950s and entering service in 1961 to replace rifle grenades as […]
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A Storm in Every Port
The sanguinary saga of Norwegian King Olaf Tryggvason relates his bloody raids, mercurial romances, […]