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Alligator Creek: America Learns to Fight the Japanese

January 7, 2023 Ian McCollum 22

The Battle of Alligator Creek (aka Battle of the Tenaru) was a formative moment in the American World War Two psyche. After making an unopposed landing on Guadalcanal and taking its mostly-completed airfield at minimal […]

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Guadalcanal’s Red Beach Landing: America’s First Offensive in WW2

December 24, 2022 Ian McCollum 11

After joining (formally) World War Two in the wake of Pearl Harbor, the United States endured a series of defeats at the hands of the Japanese. The Philippines garrison fell, Wake Island fell, Guam fell. […]

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The Army’s Labor Union: Winchester 94s for the Loyal Legion of Loggers & Lumbermen

August 30, 2021 Ian McCollum 31

Today we have a rifle from a really neat forgotten corner of American military history. During World War One, the Pacific Northwest was the source of prime lumber, in particular Sitka Spruce that was ideal […]

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The Mauser Train: High Adventure in the Last Days of WWII

May 18, 2021 Ian McCollum 19

Only days ahead of the French Army in April 1945, Ott-Helmuth von Lossnitzer and about 250 Mauser engineers and technicians fled Oberndorf with the core of Mauser’s new projects. They had the drawings, components, and […]

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Century-Old Challenge Coin: The American Legion’s 1927 Paris Convention

August 6, 2020 Ian McCollum 9

The American Legion was founded in 1919 as a veterans service organization for soldiers who served in World War One, and they chose the 10th anniversary of America’s entrance into the war to make a […]

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Sir Charles Ross was a Jerk: The Martello Tower

October 29, 2019 Ian McCollum 12

Sir Charles Ross was really a jerk sometimes. Not the sort of guy you would want to go into business with…

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Martyr of Verdun: Émile Driant’s Command Post

October 22, 2019 Ian McCollum 42

Émile Driant was a French army officer who served originally as an aide to General Boulanger (and married his daughter). This connection would tarnish his career when politics forced Boulanger to resign (and shortly afterward […]

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Forgotten History: Musée de Plans-Reliefs (Paris)

July 18, 2019 Ian McCollum 22

Hidden away up on the 4th floor of the Paris Army Museum (in Les Invalides) is the rather unexcitingly-named Musée de Plans-Reliefs. Up here in the dark is a collection of strategic dioramas dating back […]

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Forgotten History: A German Bunker at Montfaucon

October 2, 2018 Ian McCollum 10

When one visits the Montfaucon American Monument (to the soldiers in the Meuse-Argonne offensive), one finds the road in flanked by a pair of (mostly) surviving German bunkers. These standing artifacts of 20th-century warfare are […]

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Forgotten History: Glade of the Armistice

September 25, 2018 Ian McCollum 1

Here at a forested railroad crossing outside Compiègne in Picardy, France, two rail cars met in November of 1918 – one with members of the Allied/Entente high commend and ones with representatives of Imperial Germany. […]

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