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Topic Archives:Military History

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Three Days Shy of V-E Day, This Naval Aviator Spotted a German U-Boat Off Rhode Island But Couldn’t Stop It

by David Sears9/19/20239/15/2023
Photo of U.S Soldiers from the 101st cavalry division have set up these 105mm howitzers in a sand bagged fire-base at an elevated site in the center of the a Shau Valley in South Vietnam, August 12, 1968. From this position, gunners can give excellent fire support to men operating in the valley below.

What Are the Limits of Firepower? Maj. Gen. Robert Scales Speaks About America’s Way of War in Vietnam

by Warren Wilkins9/18/20239/18/2023
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Most POWs Want to Go Home—But After World War II, Some Faced Death on Arrival

by John A. Haymond9/18/20239/19/2023
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How Wheat’s Tigers’ Opening Gambit at First Manassas Turned to Legend

by Richard H. Holloway9/18/20239/12/2023
Photo of a Pashtun soldier guarding the Khyber Pass road from Pakistan to the Afghanistan border. | Location: Khyber Pass Valley, NW Frontier, Pakistan.

How This Subterranean Logistics Base in Afghanistan Bedeviled Soviet Invaders

by Michael G. Stroud9/15/202311/8/2023
Photo of U.S. Marines in the chow line.

Faced With Soggy C-Rations, Marines in Vietnam Began Their Own Invasion — Of an Army Chow Line

by Bob Orkand9/12/20239/12/2023
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Darkness Could Not Spare the Japanese From These B-24s — Neither Could Daylight

by Richard Phillip Lawless9/12/20239/15/2023
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Caesar Thought Gaul Was an Easy Target—Until a Vicious New Enemy Rose Up Against Him

by Justin D. Lyons9/11/20239/11/2023
Photo of Crewmen on board the Monitor, a "battleship" of the U. S. Navy's River Assault Force, fires 40 mm shells toward enemy positions in a jungle during recent operations in the Mekong Delta. The concept of riverine operations dates back to the U. S. Civil War and was used to divide the South in that conflict. In Vietnam, the Monitor is part of a flotilla which provides support to U. S. ground combat troops.

All You Need to Know About Riverine Operations in Vietnam

by David T. Zabecki9/11/20239/11/2023
Burial detail after Battle of Antietam

Can a Photograph Tell the Full Story of War’s Horror? This Antietam Ambrotype Just Might

by D. Scott Hartwig9/11/20237/28/2023

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