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Military History • SEPTEMBER 2020 VOL. 37, NO. 3
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RESEARCHERS FIND STORIED USS NEVADA
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What We Learned From… The Battle of Adrianople
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‘THE FEW’ FOUR SCORE ON • Eighty years after the Battle of Britain the pilots who defended their nation’s skies come into sharper focus
Battle of Britain
ODYSSEY OF THE TEN THOUSAND • Hiring on for a Persian war they didn’t understand, Greek mercenaries faced an epic fight for their lives
CLOSE ENOUGH • The proximity fuze was the best-kept billion-dollar Allied secret of World War II
CAPTAIN TRUMAN • The four-eyed, failed Missouri farmer found his legs as an American officer on the Western Front in 1918
A BRUSH WITH WAR • In 1861 Harper’s Weekly sent off future master painter Winslow Homer to cover the Civil War
BOLÍVAR’S BOY GENERAL • Antonio José de Sucre was just 15 when he joined ‘El Libertador’ in the Spanish American wars of independence
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‘V’ for Victory? • Arriving in Britain aboard the hospital ship Atlantis on March 14, 1943, Pvt. B. Potts of the Middlesex Regiment makes a gesture either celebratory of victory in North Africa or—given that the back of his hand is facing outward—somewhat less than socially acceptable.