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New warship no ‘tradeoff’ but wanted for future Marine fight
The Corps needs both big and small ships for maritime combat.
By Todd South
Air Force Academy airfield named in honor of Tuskegee Airmen commander who later became a general
Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the legendary Tuskegee Airman and World War II pilot, will be celebrated today as the Air Force Academy names its airfield after the ground-breaking aviator.
By Kent Miller
The ‘Reluctant Dragon’ awakens: Saratoga’s brave raid on Rabaul
They said the Saratoga spent too much time at anchor—until the old flattop roared to work.
By Bruce Gamble, World War II Magazine
Lost for 78 years, a Pearl Harbor sailor finally comes home
Fair winds and following seas, Machinist’s Mate 1st Class Ulis Claud Steely.
By Sarah Ladd, Louisville Courier Journal
World War II diary: ‘I will fight to the last.’
A Japanese officer’s final words recall the bloody New Georgia Campaign as American forces closed in.
By Jack H. McCall, Military History Quarterly
Navy officer among 11 killed in skydiving plane crash
The mishap happened last month in Hawaii.
Lightning brigade: Training advanced infantry — not airstrikes — is AFRICOM’s primary effort in Somalia
Somalia’s Danab brigade is being directly trained by U.S. military forces.
By Kyle Rempfer
That time American planes fought American planes
The strange story of Task Force 34.
By John W. Lambert, Aviation History Magazine
A Seabee on Iwo Jima: The men who drove cranes and cats also served
A Seabee remembers what building and fighting were like on the bloody island of Iwo Jima.
By Jack Cornwell, World War II Magazine
In the last hours of war, blood and heroism and irony and loss
World War II was clearly in its closing days — or was it?
By Sam Moses, World War II Magazine
Tuskegee Airmen memorial shares Freeman Field Mutiny story that led to military desegregation
Creating the Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Plaza as his Eagle Scout project three years ago, Tim Molinari wanted to ensure there was a record of what happened at Freeman Army Airfield in Seymour.
By Zach Spicer, The (Semour, Ind.) Tribune