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On a recent business trip to Washington, D.C., earlier this month (3 December 2025), my company had a team outing at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. It was only by chance that I stumbled upon original oil portraits of Eisenhower, Patton, Marshall, Nimitz, and Halsey. Although I didn’t have one of my Nikons, I tried
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Above: The USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. Photo source: Licensed to the War History Network from the National WWII Museum. Click to enlarge. 29 November 1941, at Sea in the Pacific Aboard the USS Arizona The nationally ranked Navy Midshipmen football team was down 6-0 at halftime to the United States Military Academy at West
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The Battle of Chosin Reservoir took place in the harsh and freezing winter of 1950, when the People’s Volunteer Army (PVA) of China entered the war to counter the presence of United Nations Command (UNC) troops in North Korea. The Chinese force, numbering around 120,000, launched a surprise attack on the US X Corps, an
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The winter of 1864 marked a pivotal moment in the American Civil War. As General William T. Sherman carved his destructive path through Georgia toward the sea, another drama unfolded in Tennessee that would effectively end Confederate hopes in the Western Theater. The Franklin–Nashville Campaign, led by Confederate General John Bell Hood, represents one of
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The Russian Civil War of 1917 marked the beginning of a new era in Russian history. The overthrow of the social-democratic Provisional Government in the October Revolution led to a multi-party conflict, with different factions fighting for control over Russia’s political future. The conflict gave rise to the formation of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet
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