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Doolittle’s ‘Boys’ The July/August article “Countdown to Tokyo,” which tells the story of the rush to get Jimmy Doolittle’s B-25s pre pared for the famous 1942 carrier-borne raid on Tokyo, was great. However, the authors made the classic non-pilot’s mistake about how an aircraft stalls. The engines of the aircraft were producing maximum RPMs and …
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Dispatches-Armchair General January 2013Lost Medal of Honor Returned to Filipino Hero’s Family In November 1912, Jose Baliton Nisperos became the first Asian and Filipino to receive the Medal of Honor, America’s highest … Read MoreMacArthur’s Defense of the Philippines, 1941-42Sound decisions helped create a roadblock to Japan’s Pacific blitzkrieg. The Japanese offensive that began World War II in the Pacific targeted the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harb… Read MoreGermany’s Secret Army, 1918-20Post-World War I “Freikorps” paramilitary units won control of Germany’s streets amid revolutionary chaos. Following the November 11, 1918, armistice that ended World War I’s four … Read MoreGreek Hoplites, 700-300 B.C.These citizen-soldiers of ancient Greece were nearly unstoppable. Greek hoplites were infantry warriors who carried shields, were primarily armed with spears, and fought in the dis… Read MoreCrisis Watch-Command on the MoveDrawing disastrous lessons from our last wars. Recently, a friend still on active duty shared an urgent concern about our ground forces. This officer is fighting the good fight to … Read More
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