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Sent to delay the North Korean communist wave at the outset of the Korean War, Task Force Smith became an object lesson in military hubris. There should be, somewhere in the annals of American military history, a compendium of battlefield disasters. If so, among them would be a little-known engagement that marked America’s earliest involvement …
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WWII Book Review: The Making of the Atomic BombThe Making of the Atomic Bomb: The 25th Anniversary of the Classic History By Richard Rhodes. 838 pp. Simon & Schuster, 2012 (with new forward by the author). $21. The gr… Read MoreTorpedoes in ParadiseYes, the Germans and the Japanese did collaborate. No, it didn’t do much good. The USS Sea south of Borneo the afternoon of April 23, 1945. The submarine’s skipper, Lieutenant Comm… Read MoreThe Peacemaker: Simon Bolivar BucknerHow Simon Bolivar Buckner fought to keep the services from fighting— each other. MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1945, dawned hot and steamy on Okinawa. For 79 days, the American Tenth Army and J… Read MoreFirst Proof of the Nazi Murder MachineSoviet soldiers of the Third Belorussian Army could be forgiven for thinking at first glance that what they had just come across in the Polish city of Lublin was a POW camp, given … Read MoreDanger Zone: Battle of MortainWhen the Germans fought back at Mortain, the violence pivoted around a patch of high ground and the American artillerymen trapped there. War, as historian Bruce Catton once wrote, … Read More
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