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Tattooed on My Soul
For more than forty years the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University has dutifully gathered the flesh-and-blood memories of the World War II generation in the state of …
Cadets on Campus
Since the founding of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1802, more than eight hundred military schools have existed in this country. The vast majority have closed …
Two Armies on the Rio Grande
The opening campaign of the US-Mexican War transformed the map of each nation and shaped the course of conflict.Armed with a broad range of Mexican military documents and …
Victory Fever on Guadalcanal
Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the …
Victory through Influence
Operation PLUM
They went in as confident young warriors. They came out as battle-scarred veterans, POW camp survivors. . . or worse. The Army Air Corps’ 27th Bombardment Group arrived in the …
Jewish Medal of Honor Recipients Volume 169
Jewish Americans have fought in every war and conflict to protect the liberties and freedoms of their country, despite anti-Semitism and prejudices they encountered. Across …
The U.S. Army and the Texas Frontier Economy, 1845-1900
Seventy million dollars in fifty-five years. From Texas' annexation in 1845 until the turn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army pumped at least that much or more into the …
Air Force Disappointments, Mistakes, and Failures
Learning under Fire
Thrown into the heart of war with little training--and even less that would apply to the battles in which they were engaged--the units of the 112th Cavalry Regiment faced not only …
Glider Infantryman
A member of the famed Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, Donald J. Rich went ashore on D-Day at Utah Beach, was wounded in the bloody conflict at Carentan, landed in …
Their Tattered Flags
Their tattered flags became the symbol of a defeated class, and Vandiver's description of aristocratic Southern leadership in crisis is a real contribution to the literature of the …