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By Kevin Seabrooke More than 80 years after they conducted visual, sonic and radio deception against German forces during World War II, soldiers who served in the so-called “Ghost Army” rec...

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BY DUANE SCHULTZ The men who were prisoners of war during World War II paid a terrible price in the form of PTSD—post-traumatic stress disorder. Read more The post Americans Returning from...

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BY PATRICK J. CHAISSON The chief shuffled to his seat in the underground conference room. He sat down heavily, eyes unfocused and dreamy, while a litany of woes was read to him. Read more Th...

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BY CHRISTOPHER MISKIMON Historians often compare Adolf Hitler to a gambler. He kept making risky bets that paid off time and again—until they didn’t. Read more The post The Nazi Invasion...

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By Roy Morris, Jr. Mr. Morris is the author of seven well-received books on 19th Century American history and literature. He has served as a consultant for A&E, the History Channel, and edite...

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/the-main-civil-war-generals-who-helped-define-the-war/

BY ARNOLD BLUMBERG After the Royal Navy’s traumatic departure from the Pacific Ocean in early 1942, the 4th Submarine Flotilla and its depot ship, the HMS Adamant, operated with the Eastern F...

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/british-submarine-operations-in-the-pacific/

BY ERIC NIDEROST July 3, 1863, dawned clear and bright, the warm sun promising even greater heat to come. By noon, temperatures were already in the low 90s, a typically hot and humid summer day...

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/picketts-charge-we-gained-nothing-but-glory/

BY FLINT WHITLOCK His world was literally crashing down in flames around him.    Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, which he had created out of nothing but his own will—an empire that he had on...

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/hitlers-death-in-the-fuhrerbunker/

BY DON HOLLWAY In November 1455 a most extraordinary ecclesiastical court convened in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris at the behest of the French Inquisition. Read more The post Joan of...

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BY ARNOLD BLUMBERG During World War II, after the Royal Navy’s traumatic departure from the Pacific Ocean in early 1942, the 4th Submarine Flotilla and its depot ship, the HMS Adamant, operat...

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/world-war-ii-british-submarine-operations-in-the-pacific/

By William Lunderberg From his naval base at Tawi Tawi in the southern Philippines, Japanese Admiral Soemu Toyoda anxiously perused intelligence reports that might provide a clue to the objecti...

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/the-uss-england-and-the-invasion-of-the-south-pacific/

By John W. Osborn, Jr.   When world war engulfed Europe for the second time in a generation, the Netherlands placed its faith in the diplomatic delusion that it could remain neutral like it...

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/dutch-debacle/

BY MICHAEL HASKEW, EDITOR For three months during the autumn and winter of 1944, the U.S. First Army was locked in a death grip with the tenacious German defenders of the Hurtgen Forest, an ar...

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/the-bitter-hurtgen-forest-battle/

By Mason B. Webb In the heart of Pennsylvania, not far from the Civil War battlefields of Gettysburg, stands the U.S. Read more The post Celebrating U.S. Army History appeared first on Warf...

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BY CHRISTOPHER MISKIMON In the late afternoon of September 17, 1862 the 7th Maine Regiment received new orders. The Battle of Antietam had raged throughout the day. Read more The post Milita...

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