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New book highlights unit with the most WWII Medals of Honor in Europe
From North Africa to the liberation of Adolf Hitler's lair in Berchtesgaden, Germany, the men of the 3rd ID slogged through it all.
SEAL who oversaw Bin Laden raid pens children’s book ‘Skipper the Seal’
'Skipper the Seal' is slated for an Oct. 12 release.
By Jon Simkins
War, heroism and sex: Pulp magazines & the messages they perpetuated
The periodicals oftentimes distorted what actual combat would be like for troops of the future.
By Todd South
Tom Clancy’s sprawling 537-acre estate sells for $4.9 million
The property is approximately 537 more than most of us have.
By Jon Simkins
‘On War’ is now a children’s book featuring ‘Hare’ Clausewitz teaching woodland critters
The author cited "a long history in children’s literature of books that help children understand and process difficult realities."
By Jon Simkins
1943 Superman comic pits the Man of Steel against the military’s arch nemesis: Jody
Fred Fore is a hopelessly idiotic and overly aggressive dolt in pursuit of Seaman Joe’s gal back home.
By Jon Simkins
Whaling logs yield clues for modern-day climate studies
It's like the "Old Weather" online project, which employs citizen-scientists in reading digitized reproductions of whaling logs and Navy and Coast Guard ship logs to produce a database of Arctic weather in the 19th and 20th centuries.
By Doug Fraser, The Cape Cod Times
‘Ghost Fleet’ cemetery now a national sanctuary
Mallows Bay is known for its "Ghost Fleet," including partly submerged remains of more than 100 wooden steamships that were built in response to threats from World War I-era German U-boats.
Washington Nationals Major League Baseball player Sean Doolittle reads to military children
Doolittle read the children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” to small children gathered on the carpet around his chair.
By Kristine Froeba
The last secret of the Scorpion
In 1968 one of the Navy’s nuclear submarines went missing in the Atlantic. Fifty years later, this author offered a provocative theory about its disappearance.
By Ed Offley, MHQ — The Quarterly Journal of Military History
Undefended shore: American antisubmarine operations in 1942
In 1942 American merchant ships up and down the Atlantic Coast were being relentlessly attacked by German U-boats. Why did the U.S. Navy secretly decide to leave them unprotected?
By Ed Offley, MHQ — The Quarterly Journal of Military History