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Mail Torpedo Failures
You can thank a U.S. Navy captain in the ordnance department (and his friends in the bureaucracy) for trying to cover up the torpedo failures that were reported [“Damn the Torpedoes,” Winter 2024] rather than trying to fix things. The Mark 14 was a h
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Lightning Strikes
IF YOU ASK ME, World War II’s coolest airplane is the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. It looks like something a kid might have doodled in a notebook while daydreaming in class. I became enthralled with the airplane in junior high when I read a book by Marti
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Stalingrad Of The Adriatic
The Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment—a Canadian unit known as the Hasty Ps—were ordered to relieve the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers—the Faughs—on the afternoon of December 5, 1943. As part of the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Bernar

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