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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 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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In the autumn of 1944, with Paris liberated and Allied forces advancing across France and Belgium, a sense of optimism permeated the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). The rapid pursuit of a seemingly defeated German army, however, created a severe logistical crisis. Supply lines, stretching precariously from the beaches of Normandy, could not sustain
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