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Jan 28, 2024 | 
warfarehistorynetwork.com | Mark Carlson
By Mark CarlsonSince the early days of the Great War, when pilots and observers brought rifles and pistols into the skies to shoot at enemy observation planes, the world of air combat has been a rapidly changing arena of technology and innovation. The first real fighters flew in 1915 carrying what is generally known as “rifle caliber” machine guns using .30 caliber (7.62mm) ammunition, much the same as a deer hunter.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
usni.org | Mark Carlson |Charles Stephenson |Eric L. Mills |Norman Polmar
The Black Sea city of Sevastopol was enduring a bitter cold on the evening of 29 October 1955. Seemingly since its founding in 1783, the port city had been touched by war and plague, prosperity and famine. Exactly a century before, the city was under siege for three months by the British Army during the Crimean War. From 1941 to 1942, the city was bombarded by German shells as Nazi forces marched into the Soviet Union.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
warfarehistorynetwork.com | Mark Carlson
By Mark CarlsonFor nearly three years World War II in the Pacific surged, raging in a hundred places from the Coral Sea to Guam, from Guadalcanal to Tarawa, and from Wake Island to the Philippines. No longer on the offensive, Japan was running out of resources as U.S. submarines sank its merchant fleet. But the Imperial Navy Combined Fleet refused to see the obvious: that Japan would lose the war.
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Sep 24, 2023 | 
warfarehistorynetwork.com | Mark Carlson
By Mark CarlsonIn 1982, Captain Bert Earnest and Commander Harry Ferrier were present at an event to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Battle of Midway. The guest of honor was George Gay, the lone survivor of the doomed Torpedo Squadron 8. Gay talked about the battle and his lost squadron mates. Eventually one man noticed Earnest standing nearby and asked him who he was.
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May 20, 2023 | 
warfarehistorynetwork.com | Mark Carlson
By Mark CarlsonThere is no disputing what the North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber contributed to the Allied victory in World War II. While historians point to the April 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo as the B-25’s shining moment, the raid itself was more a morale booster than anything else. The B-25 Mitchell was one of the best and most versatile aircraft of World War II.
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May 14, 2023 | 
heraldstandard.com | Virginia Mayo |Mark Carlson
YPRES, Belgium (AP) — A World War I soldier finally found his resting place on Wednesday after he went missing at the height of the carnage in 1917 and his remains were found four years ago. The brutality during the 1914-1918 war was such that hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed in Belgium's sector on the Western Front but some were never accounted for. They often went missing in muddy fields that were churned over by relentless bombing and fighting. Pvt.
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May 13, 2023 | 
arkansasonline.com | Virginia Mayo |Mark Carlson
YPRES, Belgium -- A World War I soldier finally found his resting place on Wednesday after he went missing at the height of the carnage in 1917 and his remains were found four years ago. The brutality during the 1914-1918 war was such that hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed in Belgium's sector on the Western Front, but some were never accounted for. They often went missing in muddy fields that were churned over by relentless bombing and fighting. Pvt.
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May 10, 2023 | 
hosted.ap.org | Virginia Mayo |Mark Carlson
Virginia Mayo, ASSOCIATED PRESS A bearer party carries the coffin of World War I soldier, Private Robert Kenneth Malcolm, during a burial ceremony at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Bedford House Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Private Malcolm, from Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, United Kingdom, was a stretcher bearer and went missing at the age of 23 in 1917. His remains were recovered in 2019.
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May 10, 2023 | 
thederrick.com | Virginia Mayo |Mark Carlson
YPRES, Belgium (AP) - A World War I soldier finally found his resting place on Wednesday after he went missing at the height of the carnage in 1917 and his remains were found four years ago. The brutality during the 1914-1918 war was such that hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed in Belgium's sector on the Western Front but some were never accounted for. They often went missing in muddy fields that were churned over by relentless bombing and fighting.
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May 10, 2023 | 
independent.co.uk | Virginia Mayo |Mark Carlson
A World War I soldier finally found his resting place on Wednesday after he went missing at the height of the carnage in 1917 and his remains were found four years ago. The brutality during the 1914-1918 war was such that hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed in Belgium's sector on the Western Front but some were never accounted for. They often went missing in muddy fields that were churned over by relentless bombing and fighting. Pvt.
