Leatherneck – Louis Cukela: Eccentric for certain. Marine warrior and hero? Most definitely
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Category Archives: History
History – Fixed Targets for the Enemy: Engineers Risked It All Every Day to Get the Job Done
Leatherneck – In Vietnam, Marine engineers blasted and built roads and bridges that are still used today.
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History – Geography, Technology, and British Naval Strategy in the Dreadnought Era
Naval War College Review – Alfred Thayer Mahan and Admiral Sir John Fisher disagreed about capital-ship design and the utility of history as a guide to formulating naval policy, but the main difference between their ways of thinking about strategy was over the best means of defending the British empire in a maritime war. Where Mahan called for concentration at the center, Fisher contended that defense could be achieved at the periphery.
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History – Night Session of the Presidium of the Central Committee, 22ñ23 October 1962
Naval War College Review – A Russian historian of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis argues from archival evidence that while authority to use tactical nuclear weapons was never delegated to local Soviet commanders, it was only with difficulty (and the assistance of the Navy commander in chief) that hard-liners were prevented from pushing through a potentially dangerous policy.
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History – Giants of the Corps: Col John W. Thomason Jr., the "Kipling of the Corps"
Leatherneck – Internationally acclaimed writer and artist John W. Thomason was a Marine first and foremost.
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History – The Attack at Taranto
Naval War College Review – The 1940 British air attack on the Italian battle fleet at Taranto Harbor has rightly been celebrated. However, measuring the success gained against the objectives assigned, the attack can be assessed only as a limited tactical victory with limited operational impact-a priceless opportunity lost.
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History – Sinking Ships
Air Force – Contrary to popular belief, land-based airpower played the key role in decimating Japanís World War II shipping.
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History – Operation Hastings: The War Moves North
Leatherneck – Leathernecks of Task Force Delta went head to head with the NVA 324B Division and cleaned their clocks, but not without loss.
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History – Once Upon a Time in The Arizona
Leatherneck – The Arizona in Vietnam: scrub brush, tunnels, caves, killers and heroes.
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History – Why Weren't We Warned?
World War II Magazine – David Kahn writs that the contention that broken Japanese codes could have alerted the United States won’t go away. But is there a simpler explanation than a failure of intelligence?
History – Loss of a Yankee SSBN
Undersea Warfare – A look at the loss of Yankee-class submarine K-219 in October 1986 following an explosion in missile tube number six.
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History – China Marines: The Lost Leathernecks
World War II – In the twilight of peace, the China Marines found themselves on the front lines of conflict.
History – Death of Convoy PQ-17
World War II – As their escorts turned away, the ships of the doomed Allied convoy followed orders and began to disperse in the Arctic waters.
History – Douglas MacArthur's Last Triumph
Military History – Conducted against great odds, the September 1950 amphibious landings at Inchon rehabilitated the U.S. militaryís tarnished postñWorld War II image.
History – One Last Look at Lady Lex
World War II – The waterway at deck’s edge was neatly lined with shoes, and???a short while later, terrible to behold, every doorway, hatch or open space was ablaze.
History – Locked in a Sinister Embrace
Military History – When French Vice Adm. Pierre de Villeneuve emerged from Cadiz with his 33 mammoth warships, Britainís Royal Navy awaited him with only 27, often smaller, ships of the line. But the British also had Lord Horatio Nelson.
History – Lexington Comes to the Rescue
Sea Power – In December 1929, one of the more unusual relief efforts in the U.S. Navyís history took place in the Pacific Northwest.
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History – Fred Avey: Flying with the Black Sheep
Aviation History – When Fred Avey joined “Pappy” Boyington’s flock, he found himself among a pack of wolves in Black Sheep’s clothing.
History – Japan's Underwater Convoys
World War II – A series of top-secret Japanese submarine missions could have altered the course of World War II.
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History – Nelson at Trafalgar: He Did His Duty
Military History – Horatio Nelson’s two-column charge into the Franco-Spanish line was risky, but it won him the battle — at the cost of his life.
History – Two Centuries of Dreadnought
Sea Power – The story of HMS Dreadnought.
History – Hill 881 South
Leatherneck – Captain Bill Dabney led his two companies in a desperate 77-day fight, where the only way out was to be “flown off or blown off” the mountain.
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History – Net-centric before Its Time
Naval War College Review – The main caution that the story of the Jeune ???cole offers for advocates of network-centric warfare and American defense transformation is not that they may be wrong in their assessments but that they may be right, too early.
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History – Missouri Ceremony 60 Years Ago Marked Victory in the Pacific
Sea Power – A look at the Japanese surrender ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri.
History – Raeder versus Wegener
Naval War College Review – German naval thought between the world wars was defined by a dispute between two distinguished officers: one who critiqued German naval performance in the conflict just ended, the other obliged to meet the very different realities of the war to come. Neither was wholly wrong or entirely correct; the disagreement produced concepts that mark naval doctrine today.
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