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Pacific Sketchbook
, , , Issue 5From the last peacetime maneuvers in North Carolina to the rubble of Tokyo, a young Army officer took it all in and gave it all back in crisp, increasingly confident drawings More >>>
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Landing At Tokyo Bay
, , , Issue 5Two letters from a Navy lieutenant to his wife tell the story of the last hours of World War II More >>>
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Macarthur’s Last Battle
, , , Issue 8I first met Douglas MacArthur in November 1921. I was only six months old at the time, but family lore has impressed it firmly in my memory. My father was a major in the Army Medical Corps; General More >>>
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Free Soil And Free Men
, , , Issue 3Oregon was not a land for Negro slaves. It was settled by a little bit of everybody—by northerners, by southerners, and by folk from the border states who could feel the emotional pull of both si More >>>
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Screenings
, , , Issue 6Zorro More >>>
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Offensive On The Somme
, , , Issue 3Before the war ended mankind was at the mercy of its own machines of destruction. It had perfected the techniques of mass slaughter without mastering them, indeed without even thinking about them c More >>>
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Build-down
, , , Issue 8After every war in the nation’s history, the military has faced not only calls for demobilization but new challenges and new opportunities. It is happening again. More >>>
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Culpable Negligence
, , , Issue 1A SUBMARINE COMMANDER TELLS WHY WE ALMOST LOST THE PACIFIC WAR More >>>
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In His Own Write
, , , Issue 4In April of 1951 I was ten years old and living with my family on Chicago’s South Side when the newspapers reported that General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was to be paraded past our neighborh More >>>
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How To Dump The Veep
, , , Issue 7I read with great interest Bernard Weisberger’s article “The Abominable No. 2 Man” (September), which drew on historical precedent to suggest the unlikelihood of Dan Quayle’s being removed More >>>