Military History

Military History is the nation’s oldest and most popular war magazine devoted to the history of warfare. Topics include naval history, army, infantry and foot soldiers from all branches of the military.

McArthur’s Gamble: The Bold 1814 Raid

Military History • MARCH 2022 VOL. 38, NO. 6

Found in France

Snapshots Focus on World War I

Crusader Camp Found in Israel

REMEMBERING BOB DOLE, 98, BOOSTER OF WWII MEMORIAL

JAPAN TESTS FIRST FIXED-WING CARRIER SINCE WORLD WAR II

WAR RECORD

From Vietnam to Head of the VA

A War Crime Not Forgotten

Film Relates MIA Search

Spy for the Patriot Cause

THE ‘KING’ AND ARIZONA

FAMED CUTTER BEAR FOUND IN ATLANTIC

POSTWAR PURPOSE

Interview Serving Those Who’ve Served

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Valor Canada’s Indigenous Hero

What We Learned From… The 1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive

Hardware V-1 Flying Bomb

SECONDS OF SILENCE • American service members billeted in London’s Sloane Court had only moments to react when a V-1 flying bomb dropped from the sky on July 3, 1944

The V-1 Threat

THE ‘OOPS’ WAR • In the century since the end of World War I historians have pointed to many causes—but is it possible none of the combatant nations wanted war?

HONORING ‘THE FEW, THE PROUD’ • Charles Waterhouse devoted his last years to portraying all Marines and Navy corpsmen who earned the Medal of Honor

A WAR THEY DIDN’T WANT • Rhode Island colonists and native Narragansetts kept a tenuous peace—until an invading English army dragged them all into King Philip’s War

RESCUING THE ‘QUEEN OF SHANGRI-LA’ • In 1945 Women’s Army Corps Cpl. Margaret Hastings went down aboard a C-47 in a remote New Guinea valley, launching an improbable story of survival

A MOUNTAIN OF TROUBLE • At Monte Bernorio in northern Spain epic battles fought 2,000 years apart helped shape that nation’s history

A Genius With Guns

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Drool, Britannia! • Suitably attired in a steel helmet, a bulldog stands guard outside a row of London townhouses 10 days after Britain’s Sept. 3, 1939, declaration of war against Nazi Germany.