Book Review – Civil War Battlegrounds: The Illustrated History of the War’s Pivotal Battles and Campaigns
As a self-diagnosed Civil War buff, the barrage of news books set to coincide with the ongoing Civil War Sesquicentennial …
Conflicts & Operations
Axis POWs in America
When Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki awoke on Waimanalo Beach on Oahu on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, the exhausted survivor …
The Yom Kippur War: 40th Anniversary in Photos
The war fought between the forces of Egypt and Syria against Israel from Oct. 6 to Oct. 25, 1973 has …
Adm. Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham and His Appointment as First Sea Lord
When Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord, resigned for reasons of health shortly after the Quadrant …
U-10 Helio Courier Was Unsung Hero in Vietnam
Quick. What’s a U-10?
It wasn’t the most famous war weapon of the Vietnam War, but the Helio U-10 Courier …
The OV-1 Mohawk Remembered Firsthand: Piloting the Mohawk in Vietnam
Retired Lt. Col. Alex Paruti had hundreds of flying hours in the Grumman OV-1 Mohawk when he joined the 225th …
The OV-1 Mohawk Remembered Firsthand: The Mohawk’s Marathon Saga
Greg Billigen hated the cockpit.
“It was cramped. Everything was packed in there pretty good. The ejection seat was hard …
German 88mm Artillery: PaK 43
The spectacular performance of the German 88mm Flak gun in the early part of World War II forced another round …
MacArthur For President
In his autobiography Reminiscences, Douglas MacArthur wrote of his relationship with President Franklin Roosevelt, “In my own case, whatever differences …
The Syria Strike and the Three Bears
The on-again, off-again U.S. military strike on Syria – widely assumed to be an attack using cruise missiles launched from …