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Hear the One About Hope in Vietnam? The article on Bob Hope (February) reminded me of my 1964-65 Vietnam tour. I was an infantry major at the time and had just been reassigned to MACV. On Christmas Eve 1964, I saw the Hope show at Bien Hoa Air Base. Later, as I was traveling back …
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French 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 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 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 MoreThe Cimbrian War, 113-101 B.C.Roman victory marked the beginning of the end for Rome as a republic. For a third of a century after Rome destroyed Carthage in 146 B.C., it faced no seriously threatening enemies … Read MoreSteel Pot: The Combat HelmetSeparating fact from fiction about the origin of the modern combat helmet. THE SOLDIER AND THE SOUP BOWL … The story goes like this: When World War I began in August 1914, no soldi… Read More
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