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Contents: The Redoubts Of Yorktown (At nightfall on October 14, 1781, American and French soldiers made a surprise attack on Redoubts 9 and 10 at Yorktown, Virginia. The small earthen fortifications were the key to Lord Cornwallis’s besieged defenses); Savo Island Fiasco (In a predawn attack on August 9, 1942, Admiral Gunichi Mikawa’s task force sank four American and Australian heavy cruisers at aptly named Iron Bottom Sound, killing some 1,070 crewmen and leaving the Marines to fight on their own); Roses In The Snow (In the midst of a blinding snowstorm, Yorkist forces under King Edward IV attacked the army of Lancastrian Keng Henry VI at Towton, in western Yorkshire, on March 29, 1461. For six hours, the largest battle ever fought on English soil raged); American Stand At Chateau-Thierry (After a major German offensive in May, 1918 drove a 13-mile bulge into Allied lines, American forces rushed to hold the Marne River crossings at Chateau-Thierry. The 7th Machine Gun Battalion played a crucial role in the defense); The Easter Offensive Of 1972 (On Good Friday, March 30, 1972, more than 25,000 North Vietnamese soldiers, backed by state-of-the-art Soviet tanks, artillery and mobile antiaircraft missile platforms, poured across the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Vietnams) Columns – Editorial; Soldiers; Weapons’ Intelligence; Militaria; Books; Games
Issue: December 2012
Condition: Very Good