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Vought’s versatile Kingfisher served as a gun spotter, patrol plane, anti-submarine scout, utility transport and trainer, but downed aircrews remembered it best as an “angel on floats” Legendary World War I ace Eddie Rickenbacker owed his life to a Vought OS2U Kingfisher. After the B-17 in which he was flying ditched in the Pacific in …
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Letters from Readers- Armchair General March 2014Superb Crisis Watch Analysis Ralph Peters’ latest Watch America’s failed Middle East diplomacy “The column examining Crisis Honest-Broker Delusion,” January 2014 ACG is a superb an… Read MoreFrench Poilus, 1914-18France’s World War I infantrymen bore the brunt of Allied fighting in horrific Western Front trench warfare. “Poilu” (“hairy one”), the nickname for a French army infantryman, date… Read MoreDispatches- Armchair General March 2014Former Army Captain Receives Medal of Honor President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Honor, America’s highest valor award, to former U.S. Army Captain William D. Swenson at a … Read MoreTen Questions: Joe BellinoEditor’s Note: Our January 2014 issue featured an interview with Pete Dawkins, West Point’s soldier-scholar-athlete who won the 1958 Heisman Trophy. This issue we give the Naval Ac… Read MoreMacArthur and the Liberation of Manila, 1945Is MacArthur to blame for the bloodbath that destroyed the Philippine capital? By March 3, 1945, after a month of the worst urban combat in World War II’s Pacific Theater, Manila –… Read More
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