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Letters
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News
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Features
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Many Waters
to Cross
In 1777 George Washington’s
Army faced the British across
a narrow New Jersey creek
By James F. Byrne Jr.
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Beneath Their
Very Feet
In 1917 Allied sappers placed
tons of explosives beneath
German lines in Belgium
By Norman Goldstein
Departments
14
Interview
Nathaniel
Philbrick
History Ashore
and Afloat
16
Valor
Cave-Flushing
Nisei
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MILITARY HISTORY
MARCH 2019
Reviews
70
War Games
78
Captured!
80
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Sink the
Belgrano!
A Pearl Harbor survivor, the
cruiser met its end during
the 1982 Falklands War
By Patrick S. Baker
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Graves of Truk
In 1944 the U.S. Navy
turned Japan’s ‘Gibraltar
of the Pacific’ into a morgue
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Mad Mike and
His Wild Geese
The soldier for hire and his
mercenaries beat Congolese
rebels—and Che Guevara
By Don Hollway
62
Ship of Ghosts
Driven by a brutal militaristic
code, the crew of an ill-fated
Japanese destroyer committed
a horrific massacre in 1943
By Ken Wright
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What We
Learned From...
Blenheim, 1704
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Hardware
Mitsubishi
A6M2
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Hallowed Ground
Corfe Castle,
England
On the cover:
In January 1777, after his second crossing of the Delaware River, Continental Army commander Gen. George Washington
stopped the British along Assunpink Creek before wresting victory at Princeton, N.J. (Yale University Art Gallery; inset: Rex/Shutterstock)
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