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Vietnam June 28, 2004 Thomas E. Faley |
Operation Marauder: Allied Offensive in the Mekong Delta On New Year's Day 1966, with Australian and New Zealand combat forces attached, the 173rd Airborne Brigade struck VC positions in the Mekong Delta.  |
Vietnam Brent Swager |
Rescue at LZ Albany Chaos prevailed over the battle zone, but the helicopter crews never wavered. They had to save the troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, who were dying in the tall grass.  |
Vietnam Joe Zentner |
Above and Beyond the Call From Roger Donlon in 1964 to Roy Benavidez in 1981, the Medal of Honor was awarded to 239 Americans who served in Vietnam.  |
Vietnam February 2008 John E. Gross |
Tet Offensive: The Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh One rifle company's wild ride into the first hours of Tet.  |
Vietnam August 2007 Mark Bernstein |
Vietnam War: Operation Dewey Canyon One of the most successful offensives of the Vietnam War was also one of its most controversial.  |
World War II Stanley A. Frankel |
Battle for Bougainville: Hell on Hill 700 Losing Hill 700 to the Japanese meant defeat for the American forces on Bougainville. To the men of the 37th Infantry Division, that was unthinkable.  |
Vietnam February 2006 John E. Gross |
The Tet Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh The 9th Infantry Division's 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry, fought for control of Bien Hoa and Long Binh on the first day of 1968's Tet Offensive.  |
Vietnam April 2006 Kelly Bell |
Deadly Sapper Attack on Fire Support Base Mary Ann "I never said anything to Doyle about that dog being on alert, but I should have known. It bothered me for years and years. It was my second tour. I should have known."  |
Vietnam June 28, 2004 James F. Humphries |
In Defense of a Hamlet In May 1967, a platoon of the 31st Infantry fought off a VC attack in force against a hamlet loyal to the Saigon government.  |
Vietnam Alfred Rascon |
Alfred Rascon: A Case of Forgotten Valor In February 2000, 33 years after medic Alfred Rascon saved two lives in action in War Zone D, he finally received the Medal of Honor.  |
Vietnam Paddy Griffith |
Re-evaluating the Role of the 'Dustoff' While it improved the survival rate and confidence level of troops in Vietnam, medevac often distorted the tactical shape of battles.  |
Vietnam August 2006 Colonel Dick Camp |
3rd Battalion, 26th Marines Fight With the NVA 324B Division in September 1967 During the Vietnam War As the battalion got the word that it would be relieved, an enemy voice was heard over the battalion radio: "Goodbye, 3/26!"  |
World War II December 2006 Mark J. Reardon |
Battle of the Hurtgen Forest: The 9th Infantry Division Suffered in the Heavily Armed Woods The bitter and bloody experience of the 9th Infantry Division in the Hurtgen Forest in autumn 1944 should have been enough to warn Allied leaders that the German army wasn't finished just yet.  |
World War II Ralph E. Hersko, Jr. |
Winter Fury Near Elsenborn Ridge The heroic American stand at the towns of Krinkelt and Rocherath slowed the German advance in the Battle of the Bulge.  |
Vietnam John C. McManus |
Battleground Saigon During the Tet Offensive in 1968, the 7th Infantry Regiment fought a World War II-style urban battle in the South Vietnamese capital.  |
Vietnam Tom Evans |
'Sixtys Up!' Mortarmen do one thing in the infantry better than anyone else. They hump equipment--carrying heavy loads everywhere riflemen go.  |
America's Civil War Todd S. Berkoff |
Bloody Baptism for the Black Hats John Gibbon's mostly green Midwestern troops found themselves in quite a scrape as the sun set on August 28, 1862. His Black Hat Brigade would never forget their baptism of fire at Brawner's Farm.  |
America's Civil War Robert C. Cheeks |
Nothing But Glory Gained On a hot July afternoon, 12,000 Southern soldiers started across an airless valley toward bristling enemy lines a mile away. For a moment, time stood still. The fate of two nations hung in the balance. Then the shooting began.  |
Vietnam David T. Zabecki |
Battle for Saigon In the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Viet Cong prepared carefully for its objectives inside the "Saigon Circle." The result would be a plethora of battles -- and battles within battles.  |
World War II William Brooks |
Black Tuesday: The Struggle for a Bridge Too Far The fate of the embattled paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge rested with the men of the South Staffords.  |
America's Civil War James B. Ronan II |
Union Regulars Brigade Desperate Stand at Chickamauga Civil War Brigadier General John King's disciplined brigade of Union Regulars found itself tested as never before at Chickamauga. For two bloody days, the Regulars dashed from one endangered spot to another, seeking to save their army from annihilation.  |
World War II March 2006 |
Battle of the Bulge: Robert Walter's Baptism of Fire Swept up in the largest American campaign of the war in Europe, Robert Walter remembers the Battle of the Bulge as a series of small dramas that played themselves out in the wooded hills near Elsenborn Ridge.  |
Vietnam August 24, 2004 Al Hemingway |
Harvey Barnum: Medal of Honor Recipient In-country for just two weeks, artillery forward observer Harvey Barnum assumed command of Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, during a Viet Cong ambush. Here, he talks about his experiences during two Vietnam tours.  |
Aviation History January 2007 Otto Kreisher |
The Rise of the Helicopter During the Korean War Used primarily for search and rescue in the Korean War's early days, choppers had become an essential battlefield tool by the conflict's end.  |
Military History Quarterly Noah Andre Trudeau |
Charles Lee's Disgrace at the Battle of Monmouth Charles Lee's military credentials were solid. But his failure to coordinate subordinates led to a crucial breakdown at the Battle of Monmouth, and a rare public rebuke from George Washington.  |
Civil War Times September 2006 Ted Alexander |
Battle of Antietam: Two Great American Armies Engage in Combat The opposing armies at Antietam were two very different forces commanded by two very different men.  |
America's Civil War Noah Andre Trudeau |
Robert E. Lee's Struggle in the Wilderness As the Union army crossed the Rapidan River to commence its powerful spring offensive, Confederate General Robert E. Lee scrambled to divine his enemy's intentions. But not even Lee could fully pierce the fog of war.  |
Vietnam October 2007 William A. Barry |
Air Power in the Siege of Khe Sanh Tactical airlift and aerial fire support during the 77-day siege were key to averting an American Dien Bien Phu and defeating the NVA at Khe Sanh.  |
America's Civil War Ronald E. Bullock |
Last-Ditch Rebel Stand at Petersburg After nearly 10 months of trench warfare, Confederate resistance at Petersburg, Va., suddenly collapsed. Desperate to save his army, Robert E. Lee called on his soldiers for one last miracle.  |
World War II Jon Guttman |
Closing the Falaise Pocket In August 1944, the Germans fought desperately to hold open their last escape route from Normandy while the Polish 1st Armored and the U.S. 90th Infantry divisions fought equally hard to close it.  |
Military History Quarterly December 15, 2004 Joseph E. Persico |
Wasted Lives on Armistice Day Did American commanders needlessly send doughboys to their deaths during the hours before the 1918 armistice went into effect?  |
Outside November 2009 Brian Mockenhaupt |
Fire on the Mountain In the rugged eastern provinces of Afghanistan, American Troops are engaged in a kind of alpine warfare not seen for decades. Months can go by without combat, but the calm is often shattered when you least expect it.  |
America's Civil War David A. Norris |
Bloody Day at Boteler's Ford Just two days after the Battle of Antietam, the deadliest day of the Civil War, the savage Battle of Shepherdstown made for a bloody little coda to the 1862 Maryland campaign.  |
America's Civil War September 2006 Gerald J. Smith |
44th Georgia Regiment Volunteers in the American Civil War The hard-fighting 44th Georgia suffered some of the heaviest losses of any regiment in the Civil War.  |
World War II November 2006 David P. Colley |
African American Platoons in World War II In March 1945, black volunteers forced the first breach in the U.S. Army's color barrier -- the first black soldiers officially serving shoulder to shoulder with whites in an American infantry unit since George Washington was in command of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.  |
Civil War Times July 2007 Michael Dreese |
Fighting and Dying for the Colors at Gettysburg Beyond their practical value on Civil War battlefields, regimental flags and other banners embodied the pride, honor and bravery of the soldiers who willingly gave their lives to defend them.  |
America's Civil War June 29, 2004 Arnold Blumberg |
From the Wilderness to Petersburg with the Old Dominion Brigade The Virginia regiments originally under the brigade command of William Mahone seemed to save their best for last. After two years of average service, they became Robert E. Lee's go-to troops in the Wilderness and at Petersburg's Crater.  |
America's Civil War January 12, 2005 Michael C. Hardy |
April 2, 1865: 'A Day of Carnage and Blood' Sixth Corps Yankees stumbled out of their earthworks and toward the muddy pits of the Army of Northern Virginia. It was the beginning of the end.  |
Civil War Times John C. Waugh |
The Proving Ground in Mexico For young American army officers of the time, the Mexican War was not only the road to glory, it was the road to promotion -- a proving ground for future Civil War generals.  |
National Defense October 2005 Grace Jean |
Stryker Units Win Over Skeptics The success of the first two Stryker Brigades has fueled more confidence in the capabilities of the vehicle, but soldiers in those brigades continue to evaluate strategies for best utilizing the Stryker.  |
Civil War Times August 2005 John Cabell Early |
A Southern Boy Remembers Gettysburg Major General Jubal Early's nephew recalls the famous meeting on July 1 between his uncle and General Robert E. Lee during the 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania.  |
National Defense December 2004 Roxana Tiron |
Army Revises Doctrine for Modular Brigades Caught between the pressures of war in the Middle East and the need to reorganize, the U.S. Army is juggling new methods of combat training while rewriting the rulebook for equipment and tactics.  |
America's Civil War January 2007 Gordon Berg |
Battle of Chickamauga and Gordon Granger's Reserve Corps In 1863, Gordon Granger's rookie Reserve Corps saved the Army of the Cumberland from impending destruction.  |
Military History Quarterly Noah Andre Trudeau |
'The Fort's Our Own!' Relying on cold steel and the cover of darkness, General Anthony Wayne's elite Light Corps seized British-held Stony Point, New York, in one of the most daring operations of the Revolutionary War.  |
National Defense April 2011 Eric Beidel |
Army Shifts Focus to Dismounted Soldiers Army leaders say soldiers are the service's greatest weapon, and they are asking industry to shift their focus from platform to person and consider the infantryman first as it plans investments in new technology.  |
AskMen.com April 23, 2013 |
Leader's Code The following is an excerpt from Marine Corps veteran Donovan Campbell's The Leader's Code, a book about the qualities that make and define an effective leader.  |
Vietnam August 2006 |
Vietnam Magazine Letter From the Magazine - August 2006 America loses one of its great moral heroes of the Vietnam War.  |
National Defense December 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Army to Create Education Programs for Soldiers Who Are Too Busy to Go to School Repeated deployments have kept soldiers away from schoolhouses. But the Army still believes there are ways to provide learning opportunities outside of the traditional education system.  |
Civil War Times Thomas T. Taylor |
Eyewitness to the Battle of Atlanta Among the blue-clad soldiers moving against Atlanta in late July 1864 was Major Thomas T. Taylor of Georgetown, Ohio. In these passages from the letter he wrote to his wife, Netta, he described what he saw, experienced, and did during the Battle of Atlanta.  |
Civil War Times John F. McCormack, Jr. |
Never Were Men So Brave Their casualties were enormous but their courage and capacity for fun were legendary. General Lee himself gave highest praise to these Yankees of the Irish Brigade.  |