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FINAL DRIVE – A Dorset misadventure – by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

The best laid plans of mice and men are always game for a laugh. The WHO command team had been planning a meet up between…

World War II Tanks, Guns And More Found In Iraq (Watch)

Imagine yourself a modern day soldier, you are in Iraq fighting insurgents when all of a sudden you are faced with tanks that seem to…

Air Force veteran: ‘They are our support’

Air Force veteran

Air Force veteran praises the support of the military spouse By Jeremy P. Amick Russellville, Mo., resident Larry Crocker obtained a twofold appreciation for the…

We anchored just off of Utah Beach

World War II service of Merchant Marine saved for posterity June 6, 1944: The Allied invasion of Normandy begins. This date, known as “D-Day,” generally…

MUST READ – Commander Rudder (2nd Rangers) 10 years later – I Took My Son to Pointe Du Hoc and Omaha Beach

FROM HISTORIES OF THE NORMANDY LANDINGS PREPARED BY THE ARMY HISTORICAL DIVISION. –  By W. C. HEINZ Thank you to our friends at OldMagazineArticles.com for…

‘A floating gas station’

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Russellville veteran describes service aboard USS Hassayampa By Jeremy P. Amick As the co-owner of a restaurant, Dana Frisby is fortunate that he is able…

D-Day 360 – by Phil Hodges

Phil Hodges

D-Day 360 Our resident universal soldier, Phil Hodges, tells us about filming a groundbreaking documentary for PBS. After years on the drawing board, D-Day was…

‘You learn to adjust’ – Army veteran served as medic during the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

Army veteran served as medic during the Vietnam War By Jeremy P. Ämick For nearly three decades, Roger Buchta enlightened young minds with lessons on…

A German immersion – Vietnam era draft lands local veteran in middle of European culture

German immersion

Vietnam era draft lands local veteran in middle of European culture By Jeremy P. Amick Growing up with a father who had served in the…

DEEP WATER, DARK SECRETS: REASSESSING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE TONKIN GULF INCIDENT – Part 4

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By 1984 the waters had been sufficiently muddied as to the legitimacy of the evidence pointing to a second attack, and with it, incidentally, the…

A WHEATCROFT PANTHER’S PROGRESS – Leicestershire, 2014 by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

We were delighted to be invited by the Wheatcroft Collection to attend the Engine Start-Up day when the Maybach power unit to be fitted into…

DEEP WATER, DARK SECRETS: REASSESSING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE TONKIN GULF INCIDENT – Part 3

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Part 1: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/articles/deep-water-dark-secrets-reassessing-historiography-tonkin-gulf-incident-part-1.html Part 2: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/articles/deep-water-dark-secrets-reassessing-historiography-tonkin-gulf-incident-part-2.html Equally helpful in trying to unravel the Tonkin mystery at the time was John Galloway’s 1970 work The Gulf of Tonkin…