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Operation Market Time – Inside the U.S. Coast Guard’s Role in the Campaign Against Enemy Infiltrators in Vietnam
More than 8,000 United States Coast Guardsmen served in Vietnam. Their primary mission was patrolling the coast and inland waterways in a variety of cooperative operations with other American service branches. One of the most successful Coast Guard collaborations of the war…
His Majesty’s American Admiral – The Amazing Life & Times of the Royal Navy’s John Wentworth Loring
“Wentworth grew up as a penniless loyalist exile following the premature death of his father. Suddenly forced to make his own way in life, he found a path to redemption through service in the Royal…
The Atomic Bombings of Japan Were Tragic; a Ground Invasion Would Have Been Even Worse
“If the war had continued, it’s entirely possible that as many as 27 million Japanese might have died, as the Allied armies blasted their way from the initial landing zones at the Kyushu Peninsula up…
Meet Harry Perry Robinson – The Oldest War Correspondent on the Western Front
“Robinson was the oldest correspondent who covered the entirety of the war, writing up to 2,000 words a day for The Times.” By Joseph McAleer HARRY PERRY ROBINSON was elderly and infirm at the outbreak…
‘To the Last Desperate Inch’ – Inside John Bell Hood’s Bloody ‘Fighting Retreat’ from Nashville
“No army in the war endured a more miserable and depressing episode than did the Army of Tennessee on this retreat.” In November 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood led his hard-luck Army of Tennessee…
American Idol – The Revolutionary War and Birth of the ‘Cult of George Washington’
“From the moment he had taken command of the American forces in July 1775, he had been greeted with a torrent of adulation.” By David A Bell IN THE FALL of 1776, it looked as…
