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Operation Essex – Antenna Valley, An Hoa, 1967

"Operation Essex – Antenna Valley, An Hoa, 1967" by Capt. Leonard Dermott, USMCR, Marine Corps Combat Art Collection
Operation Essex – Antenna Valley, An Hoa, 1967 Capt. Leonard Dermott, USMCR, Marine Corps Combat Art Collection. A few weeks ago, I bought a set of art prints that the Marine Corps published in 1968. There are sixteen works in the set, every one powerful and evocative in its own way. But this particular print …

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Boots and Saddles – video tribute to a legendary regiment

Boots and Saddles is a short bugle call to alert cavalry troopers to form up for mounted drill. Although cavalry in the modern era has not used horses for many decades, the armored force is rich with the traditions of that bygone era when trooper and horse fought together in battle. As one of America's …

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Rain of steel on the Blackhorse

Artillery is a god of modern war. Josef Stalin Here is a story about one of the U.S. Army’s finest units that endured a day so hard, many survivors won’t talk about it even today. On July 11th, 1991 in Kuwait, the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment (Blackhorse) suffered the single worst non-combat accident in U.S. …

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Cold War Germany – a border ran through it

East German territorial marker. We called these "barber poles" and they were set back a couple of yards inside the 10-meter strip.
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." Sir Winston Churchill Flashpoint of the Cold War There's a little town in central Germany called Melpers, tucked into a picture postcard valley in Thuringia. About a hundred people live there today. A fine road connects Melpers …

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The Best Damn Regiment That You Will Ever See

11th Armored Cavalry Regiment CSIB
17 October 1969, A cavalry platoon of Charlie Troop, 1/11 ACR halts before pushing into a rubber plantation during Operation Kentucky Cougar III between Loc Ninh and Quan Loi , Vietnam. This photo shows the powerful weapons mix in the platoon. UPI Photo by Shunsuke Akatsuka Many units of all types – large, small, and …

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The living and the dead on LZ X-Ray

17 November 1965, LZ X-Ray, Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam. Associated Press Photo by Rick Merron
17 November 1965, LZ X-Ray, Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam. Associated Press Photo by Rick Merron On the fourth night of the 1st Cavalry Division's fight in the Ia Drang Valley, parachute flares float to earth, bathing the dead and wounded in an eerie light. In this long exposure, you can see the shadowy forms of …

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