Category: Units
HMCS Skeena – Meet One of the Toughest Warships of the Battle of the Atlantic
“As experienced and professional a destroyer as any of them on the North Atlantic run.” By James Brun HIS MAJESTY’S Canadian Ship Skeena was a River-class destroyer and one of the first two ships built…
Castro’s Cold Warriors – Inside the Foreign Campaigns of the Cuban Army
“Throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, Castro was only too eager to export revolution to the Third World. Often this support came in the form of combat troops.” AMERICA WAS STILL REELING from its humiliation in Vietnam…
The International Brigades – Meet the Anti-Fascist Foreign Volunteers of the Spanish Civil War
“The popular image of the International Brigades being full of writers, poets and intellectuals – such as George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway – is in fact a misconception.” By Alexander Clifford THE SPANISH CIVIL War…
Scout Dogs at War – How U.S. Army K-9 Patrols Sniffed Out the Enemy in Korea
“The only scout dog team involved during the Korean conflict, the 26th ISDP took part in more than 1,500 combat patrols during the course of the war.” By Michael Lemish SUBMITTED FOR YOUR approval is…
The ‘Royal American’ Rifles – Inside the 5/60th Regiment, Wellington’s Deadly Skirmishers of the Peninsular War
“The unit that had proved so deadly was the 5th Battalion of the 60th (Royal American) Regiment of Foot: the first rifle battalion in the British Army.” By Rob Griffith SEPT. 1, 1813: Jean-de-Dieu Soult,…
“These Aren’t Men, They’re Demons!” — The French Foreign Legion’s Desperate Defence of Camarón
“As the Mexicans charged, the legionnaires fired volleys into the onrushing horde.” By Frederick J. Chiaventone IN 1861, MEXICO was in a state of turmoil. Newly elected President Benito Juarez had, in defeating the rebels…
