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.

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Hardware Mitsubishi A6M2

MANY WATERS TO CROSS • On Jan. 2, 1777, within days of crossing the Delaware River, George Washington’s bedraggled Army again faced the enemy—this time across a New Jersey creek

BENEATH THEIR VERY FEET • In a covert 18-month effort Allied soldiers tunneled beneath German lines in Flanders to plant more than 500 tons of explosives

Allied Mines at Messines, 1917

SINK THE BELGRANO! • While other warships circled each other off the Falkland Islands, a British submarine stalked the Argentine light cruiser

GRAVES OF TRUK • In February 1944 the U.S. Navy turned Japan’s ‘Gibraltar of the Pacific’ into a maritime morgue

MAD MIKE AND HIS WILD GEESE • In 1964–65 soldier for hire Mike Hoare and a handful of mercenaries defeated a horde of drug-addled communist Simba rebels—and Che Guevara—to reclaim the Congo

SHIP OF GHOSTS • In 1943, driven by a brutal code and blind loyalty to the emperor, the crew of an ill-fated Japanese destroyer committed a horrific massacre

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