Military History

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Military History • WINTER 2024 VOL. 40, NO. 3

Letters

Dispatches

Interview Memories of War

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Valor Shots in the Dark

What We Learned From… The Korean War, 1950–present

Hardware Landing Craft Support (Large) (Mark 3)

EMPIRE • Hernán Cortés’ bold 1519–21 campaign for the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán earned Spain a foothold in the Americas and the enmity of those conquered

Targeting Tenochtitlán

ON THE HOOK IN KOREA • From late 1952 until weeks prior to the July 1953 armistice British Commonwealth forces fought to pin Chinese forces in place along the 38th parallel

AN AMERICAN IN THE ISRAELI ARMY • Brooklyn-born ‘Mickey’ Marcus cast a giant shadow indeed during the formation of the Israel Defense Forces and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

HAVE A FIELD DAY • A portfolio of the world’s most visit-worthy battlefields

COMMAND PERFORMANCE • More than a century after World War I how do the reputations of six top commanders of the combatant nations stack up?

THE FIGHTING ‘MIGHTY MIDGETS’ • LCS gunboats were unsung heroes of the Pacific Theater in World War II

‘The Maiden Voyage of the 52’

An Adventurer’s Idol

Hallowed Ground Fort McHenry, Maryland

War Games

Flash in the Pan