Brendan McNally
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Lt. James Reese Europe: The World Catches Jazz Fever, Compliments of the U.S. Army
For decades afterwards, people who were there would remember it as one of the most glorious moments in New York …
Brain Buckets, Tin Hats, and Steel Pots: Helmets Have Improved Over Nearly a Century of Use
It’s hard not to get a sickening feeling, staring at photographs of all the gallant young soldiers, resplendent in their …
E.V. Voska: The U.S. Army Captain Who Founded Czechoslovakia
There seems to be a rule somewhere that any time a nation’s founding fathers are depicted in a group photograph …
The MBT-70 Main Battle Tank Program
By the early 1960s, with the Cold War now well into its second decade, Western intelligence learned the Soviets …
The Sinking of the Battleship Roma and the Dawn of the Age of Precision Guided Munitions
A couple of hours after midnight on the morning of Sept. 9, 1943, a large force of Italian warships – …
Hard Luck Outfit: The Story of the 492nd Bombardment Group – Part 2
By early June, 1944, the 492nd Bombardment Group had flown twenty-four missions. Most had been easy ones, either supporting the …
Hard Luck Outfit: The Story of the 492nd Bombardment Group – Part 1
The story goes that Napoleon once inquired about a certain general to his staff. After listening to them go on …
Outsourcing Strategic Airlift: NATO’s Two Very Different Solutions
In this age of coalition warfare and continuous global deployments, nearly every nation’s military regularly needs at least some strategic …
Sea Dart Missile: A Parting Salute
In June, the last of the Royal Navy’s Type 42 destroyers, HMS Edinburgh, was retired. With her went the Sea …
The Granville Raid
By the beginning of 1945, the German occupation of the British Channel Islands was well into its fifth year. The …