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Brown Water C-rat Can Assist
Official caption: “Mekong Delta, Republic of Vietnam. US Navy Gunner’s Mate Third Class Barry Johnson returns enemy fire with the M-60 machine gun on board his US Navy River Patrol Boat (PBR). The...
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Cold Canuks
80 years ago today. Infantrymen of the French-Canadian Régiment de la Chaudière, who are wearing British winter camouflage clothing, on patrol, Bergendal, Netherlands, 24 January 1945. This is either...
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That Belgian Chill
80 years ago today. Members of the 740th Tank Battalion and Headquarters Company of the 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, advance in a snowstorm behind a tank...
View ArticleNATO Sky Soldiers
NATO has put out a 12-minute moto video on the Alliance’s paratroopers including cameos by German Fallschirmjäger, Italian Folgore brigade Paracadutisti, French 1er RCP (1er Régiment de Chasseurs...
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Baptism for the American Ski Troops
Some 80 years ago this month, members of the intelligence and reconnaissance (I&R) platoon, 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, logged the first documented combat use of ski...
View ArticleMinting British Army Lance Corporals
It’s said that the rank of lance corporal in a British Army infantry unit, denoted by a single inverted chevron, is the hardest one to earn and the easiest to lose. Whereas the U.S. Marines run a...
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On the Beach with the Boys
Official wartime caption, 85 years ago today: “Men of the 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers practice firing their .55 caliber Boys anti-tank rifles on the beach near Etaples, 6 February 1940.” At the time the...
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Buckeyes in Manila
A great moment showing in time, 80 years ago today. AP Photo caption, “During the hard street fighting against Japanese strongpoint at the New Police Station, Pandacan district, GIs of the 129th...
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Clothes Horse
Some 130 years ago this month, a 20-year-old Leftanant Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, seen in the uniform of the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars. National Army Museum. NAM. 1992-10-143-1547 Churchill,...
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Bazooka Joes
80 years ago this week. 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment. Two soldiers of an M9 2.36-inch bazooka section blow out a Japanese pillbox at Heart Point, on Corregidor Island, Philippines on or around 19...
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Cold Canuks
80 years ago today. Infantrymen of the French-Canadian Régiment de la Chaudière, who are wearing British winter camouflage clothing, on patrol, Bergendal, Netherlands, 24 January 1945. This is either...
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That Belgian Chill
80 years ago today. Members of the 740th Tank Battalion and Headquarters Company of the 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, advance in a snowstorm behind a tank...
View ArticleNATO Sky Soldiers
NATO has put out a 12-minute moto video on the Alliance’s paratroopers including cameos by German Fallschirmjäger, Italian Folgore brigade Paracadutisti, French 1er RCP (1er Régiment de Chasseurs...
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Baptism for the American Ski Troops
Some 80 years ago this month, members of the intelligence and reconnaissance (I&R) platoon, 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, logged the first documented combat use of ski...
View ArticleMinting British Army Lance Corporals
It’s said that the rank of lance corporal in a British Army infantry unit, denoted by a single inverted chevron, is the hardest one to earn and the easiest to lose. Whereas the U.S. Marines run a...
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On the Beach with the Boys
Official wartime caption, 85 years ago today: “Men of the 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers practice firing their .55 caliber Boys anti-tank rifles on the beach near Etaples, 6 February 1940.” At the time the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Buckeyes in Manila
A great moment showing in time, 80 years ago today. AP Photo caption, “During the hard street fighting against Japanese strongpoint at the New Police Station, Pandacan district, GIs of the 129th...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clothes Horse
Some 130 years ago this month, a 20-year-old Leftanant Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, seen in the uniform of the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars. National Army Museum. NAM. 1992-10-143-1547 Churchill,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bazooka Joes
80 years ago this week. 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment. Two soldiers of an M9 2.36-inch bazooka section blow out a Japanese pillbox at Heart Point, on Corregidor Island, Philippines on or around 19...
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Going Inland
80 years ago today. Operation Detachment. Iwo Jima, 20 February 1945 0900, D-Day plus 1. Official wartime caption. “Going Inland, Determination written on their countenances, Marines start the drive...
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