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Soldiers on Burnside Bridge

Interview: D. Scott Hartwig / An Epic Study of America’s Bloodiest Day—Decades in the Making

by Christopher Howland8/9/20234/26/2024

SOG operatives entered enemy territory wearing “sterile” clothing with no items that could give the enemy any indication of their individual identities or nationality. SOG Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968–1969, cook cover.

Book Review: SOG Kontum / Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia 1968-1969

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher7/10/20234/27/2024

An illustration depicting the Battle of Kings Mountain late in the afternoon of October 7, 1780 from the perspective of the Loyalist camp of Maj. Patrick Ferguson atop Kings Mountain. Scene depicts the moment when organized military resistance to the surrounding attacking Patriots, led by Col. William Campbell, collapses and leads to widespread chaos and panic of Fergusonís men as hundreds of Tories try to surrender to the Patriots who are advancing on all sides of the camp and filled with revenge are altogether too fired up to halt the slaughter. 2003 oil painting by artist Archil Pichkhadze originally commissioned by the National Park Service/Harpers Ferry Center for wayside exhibits at Kings Mountain National Military Park. artist Archil Pichkhadze

This British Officer Developed a Revolutionary Rifle Whose Worth He Was Never Able to Prove in Battle

by John Miles7/7/20235/3/2023

George McClellan

Mending the McClellan Myth

by Christopher Howland6/26/20238/20/2023

Photo of American forces on Chu Lai beach searching for a defensive position shortly after descending from the landing crafts aboard the USS Thomaston. Vietnam, June 1965.

In the First Major Offensive of the Vietnam War, Both Sides Claimed Victory. Who Actually Won?

by John Walker6/26/20236/26/2023

Steamships on the Cumberland River

How a Steamboat Saved a Confederate Army

by Stuart W. Sanders6/22/20236/22/2023

Photo of Infantrymen of the U.S. 4th Division move across clearing passing poncho-wrapped body of a buddy at the spot where he fell in Vietnam on March 23, 1967. Action took place 20 miles northwest of Pleiku in the central highlands of Vietnam, near the Cambodian border.

How A Search for Missing Comrades in Vietnam Led Two Infantry Companies Straight Into an Enemy Inferno

by Warren Wilkins6/19/20235/15/2023

Photo of HALO parachutists of SOG link up beneath a Huey helicopter above Camp Long Thanh.

Their Existence Was Denied by the US Government. Their Mission Photos Proved Otherwise

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher6/16/20236/16/2023

Photo of French-built Dassault Mirage F1JA, part of the Ecuadoran air force.

The Time Ecuador and Peru Fought a 34-Day War Over a Patch of Amazonian Jungle

by Jerome Long6/16/20239/11/2023

Photo of a O-2A Super Skymaster, used as a FAC aircraft, fires a smoke rocket at an enemy stronghold. The smoke rocket will mark the area for strike aircraft. Fast reaction time and increased time over target, plus the safety factor of its two engines make the O-2 ideal for both psychological warfare and FAC missions.

This Plane Made all the Difference in Vietnam — So Did its Aviators

by Barry Levine6/12/20235/15/2023