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Mount Tapotchau: The Marines Take Saipan's High Ground

To hold Saipan's bloody peak, the Bastard Battalion had to dig in Read more

Weapons Manual: The Independence-class light carrier

Hard-charging hybrids, these U.S. Navy vessels were built on hulls meant for cruisers Read more

Private Wojtek, Reporting for Duty

The soldier bear who went to war for Poland Read more

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Photos of LST 325, Floating Tribute to the WWII Generation

Modern and period photos depict LST 325, a floating tribute to those who built, crewed and disembarked from LST[...]

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German POWs: Coming Soon to a Town Near You

Americans on the home front had to cope with an unprecedented enemy invasion as thousands of German POWs moved [...]

Ronald H. Bailey | Features  | 11 comments world war 2 divider

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Mount Tapotchau: The Marines Take Saipan's High Ground

To hold Saipan's bloody peak, the Bastard Battalion had to dig in

James Campbell | Features  | 0 comments world war 2 divider

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Pride and Prejudice: The Montford Point Marines on Saipan

As the U.S. Marine Corps fought Japanese troops for Saipan, one group of Marines there was battling on a differ[...]

James Campbell | Features  | one comment world war 2 divider

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Private Wojtek, Reporting for Duty

The soldier bear who went to war for Poland

Karen Jensen | Features  | 0 comments world war 2 divider

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Avalanche: How Both Sides Lost at Salerno

Sometimes it's not whether you win or lose, but whether you wind up in a long, protracted struggle.

Robert M. Citino | Features  | 0 comments world war 2 divider

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Mark W. Clark: A General Reappraisal

Does he really deserve to be exhibit A in the war's pantheon of bad commanders?

Robert M. Citino | Features  | 5 comments world war 2 divider

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Rudolf Hess: Flight of Fancy

Rudolf Hess’s peace mission to Britain was one of the war’s most astonishing events. Was the deputy führer[...]

Peter Padfield | Features  | 0 comments world war 2 divider

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From D-Day to Paris: The Story of a Lifetime

Three legendary war correspondents—Robert Capa, Ernie Pyle, and Ernest Hemingway—scramble to cover the Alli[...]

Alex Kershaw | Features  | 2 comments world war 2 divider

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Corregidor: The last battle in the fall of the Philippines

Once a haven, the island fortress of Corregidor became its own brand of hell following the fall of Bataan

Bill Sloan | Features  | one comment world war 2 divider

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