Military History

Military History is the nation’s oldest and most popular war magazine devoted to the history of warfare. Topics include naval history, army, infantry and foot soldiers from all branches of the military.

Military History • MARCH 2020 VOL. 36, NO. 6

Patchwork History

PETREL PINPOINTS MIDWAY TARGETS KAGA AND AKAGI

Pearl Survivors Hold Final Meet

Series Honors Eighth Air Force

BUNKER HILL MUSKET FETCHES HALF-MILLION

FRANCO REMAINS MOVED FROM STATE MAUSOLEUM

WAR RECORD

MARINES: ANOTHER IWO JIMA FLAG RAISER MISIDENTIFIED

Texas to Host MOH Museum

Air Force Honors Pioneering Pilot

U.S. IDs Korean War Remains

Nuremberg Recordings Made Public

D-DAY DISPATCH TAPE FOUND IN BASEMENT

WWII TANK CREW HONORED FOR DUEL

LETHAL RELICS

Interview Worth It

Valor The Heroic Navy Nurse

What We Learned From… The Battle of Legnano, 1176

Hardware Albatros D.III

GAUL OR BUST • The stakes were never higher for Julius Caesar than in battle on the Sabis River in 57 BC

RED DAWN • Early one morning in 1919 Bolsheviks ambushed the camp of an American expeditionary force outside Romanovka, Russia. But why were the doughboys even there?

Yanks vs. Reds in Siberia

Battle of Romanovka: Ambush at Dawn

RISING ABOVE RANK • Overlooking a studied insult by Congress, John Stark rallied to the Patriot cause at Bennington in 1777

THE LITTLE AIRCRAFT THAT COULD • In mid-November 1940 two waves of obsolete British biplanes mounted history’s first all-aerial ship-to-ship naval attack—with surprising results

BIG GUNS AFLOAT • Once the focus of a 20th century arms race, battleships have since become obsolete

BANZAI CHARGE AT COWRA • In early August 1944 hundreds of Japanese POWs at a remote camp in New South Wales, Australia, plotted a mass breakout to regain their honor

Resisting Nazism

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Hallowed Ground Hastings, England

War Games

Admiral Preminger