Korea, 1950-51
Table of Contents for
75 chapters!
The Changjin Journal

NEW
Chapter 75
NEW IN THIS ISSUE we provide initial directives of X Corps regarding protection of the MSR, regrouping of units in the Chosin Reservoir area, and activities at and south of Chinhung-ni where the Chinese had been attempting a deep envelopment.

A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

Air Force Combat Units of World War II
Complete 506 page work, keyword searchable

Edited by Maurer Maurer ; USAF Historical Division, Air University, Washington :Date: 1986

Click here to see the graphics from Steven J. Zaloga's Talk on February 2, 2001 on Operation Cobra.

This Week at NYMAS
Formal raising of the US flag at Veracruz, Mexico at 2 pm on April 27, 1914 See also. the U.S. occupation of Veracruz, 1914	Friday evening talk February 3, 2012 7 pm to 8:45 pm   Intervening in Revolution: Woodrow Wilson in Mexico Major Lucas Frank United States Military Academy at West Point       The Soldiers Sailors Club 283 Lexington Avenue (between 36th and 37th Streets) New York City

 

NYMAS presents Grant Check to Soldiers Sailors Club

Hazel Cathers, Executive Director of the The Soldiers’, Sailors’, Marines’, Coast Guard and Airmen’s Club of New York City receives a check from NYMAS boardmembers Allen Walberg (L) and Arnold Albert (R).    The funds come from a grant provided by the New York Council for the Humanities to NYMAS for the Soldiers Sailors Club generously providing space for NYMAS' Friday evening talks.

 

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Winter-Spring 2012 Date Topic Speaker Affiliation Feb 3 Intervening in Revolution:  Woodrow Wilson in Mexico Major Lucas Frank United States Military Academy at West Point Feb 17 Flamethrower Tanks and Doctrine in WWII Technology Major John P. Ringquist United States Military Academy at West Point March 2 Not Servants of Justice: The Malmedy Massacre Trial and Its Aftermath Steven P. Remy Brooklyn College/ CUNY Graduate Center March 16 Asst. Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox in the Civil War Navy Ari Hoogenboom Brooklyn College/ CUNY Graduate Center March 30 (7 to 8:45 pm) The War of 1812 in New York and Abroad March 31 (Sat. 1-5 pm) Apr 13 Fragging: Why U.S. Soldiers Assaulted Their Officers in Vietnam George Lepre Author Apr 27 Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300 John France United States Military Academy at West Point May 11 Collecting War Art Dave H. Williams Author/Collector May 25 Hunting Down the Jews: Vichy, the Nazis and Mafia Collaborators in Provence 1942-1944 Isaac Levendel Author June 8 Musahi: Major Problems in 'The Most Peaceful Valley in Afghanistan" Martin Scott Catino American Military University June 22 The Rise and Fall of the Tankette, 1925-1940: A Forgotten Chapter in the Evolution of Armored Warfare Paul V. Walsh   Author Click here to see and/or print out a PDF of the latest NYMAS flyer with the calendar of talks from January to June, 2012 plus a membership form if you'd like to join and donate.

Updated Saturday, January 28, 2012 03:54 AM– Bob Rowen rrowen@nymas.org
 

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public.

NYMAS is supported in part by a grant from the
 New York Council for the Humanities.

These talks are usually held on Friday evenings at
The Soldiers', Sailors', Marines', Coast Guard and Airmens' Club
283 Lexington Avenue (between 36th and 37th Streets)
New York, NY 10016-3540
from 7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. These Friday lectures are usually held on the 2nd floor in the historic South Lounge.

 NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History, Region 2.

Topics and speakers may be subject to change without notice. A current updated schedule is always available at this website (http//:nymas.org)

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NYMAS on
Axis Sally The American Voice of Nazi Germany  Author Richard Lucas' talk to NYMAS on May 20, 2011
The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception Author & former Deputy Undersecretary of the Army Thaddeus Holt's talk to NYMAS on Jun 4, 2004
Mussolini: The Secrets of His Death Enigma Books' publisher Robert Miller's talk to NYMAS on Jan 28, 2005
Click above for the complete online video of each talk to NYMAS

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Audio Podcasts of Friday Evening Talks

	The Military and the Monarchy The Case and Career of the Duke of Cambridge in an Age of Reform recorded April 15, 2011 1 hr 36  min click here to listen	Colonel Kevin Farrell Photo: USMA
	West Pointers in the Frontier West recorded November 4, 2011 1 hr 27 min click here to listen	Major Ryan Shaw Photo: USMA
	Dreaming of Pax Aeronautica: Neo-isolationist Promotion of Airpower, 1947-1953 recorded March 19, 2010 1 hr 35 min click here to listen	Major Pete Rayls Photo from speaker
	Kansans, Abolitionists and John Brown's Men recorded April 29, 2011 1 hr 29 min   click here to listen	Major John P. Ringquist Photo: USMA
	The U.S. Army on the Eve of the Civil War   recorded December 3, 2010 1 hr 27 min   click here to listen	Samuel Watson Photo: USMA
	FDR's Deadly Secret recorded January 7, 2011   click here to listen	Steven Lomazow M.D Photo from speaker
	Japan's War Plans: Preparing for Armageddon recorded December 10, 2010   click here to listen	Theodore F. Cook, Jr. Photo: Bob Rowen
	Malfeasance in Blue: The Air Force vs. The Army  recorded May 21, 2010   click here to listen	Tom Wisker Photo: Bob Rowen
	Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill recorded September 24, 2010 click here to listen	Thomas Fleming Photo: Bob Rowen
	Chinese Amphibious Operations: 1949-1958 recorded May 8, 2009  click here to listen	Ed Chen Photo: Bob Rowen
	The Chiapas Insurgency   recorded January 22, 2010 click here to listen	Bill Weinberg Photos: http://www.h-alter.org/
	Pequot and King Philip's Wars   recorded May 7, 2010   click here to listen	Prof.  Matthew Muehlbauer & Major Jason Warren Photos: USMA
	Islam in the French Army during the Great War    recorded Feb. 27, 2009   click here to listen	Richard S. Fogarty
	Naval Aviation and U.S. Fleet Problems, 1923-1940 recorded March 20, 2009   click here to listen	Al Nofi Photo: Bob Rowen
	Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command during the First World War recorded January 23, 2009 click here to listen	Mitch Yockelson National Archives
	America's Captives: American POW Policy from the Revolution to the War on Terror recorded January 9, 2009 click here to listen	Paul Springer Photo: AV
	African American USMA Graduates in the Nineteenth Century recorded December 12, 2008 click here to listen	Major Jeremy James Photo: USMA

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The Arthur Goodzeit Award
2010	Hitler’s first war : Adolf Hitler, the men of the List Regiment, and the First World War by Thomas Weber (Oxford University Press, 2010)
2009	Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 by D. M. Giangreco (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009)
2008	Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commanders’ War in Iraq by Col. Peter R Mansoor (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008}.
The Civil War Book Award
2009	West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace by Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2009).
2008	Lincoln and his Admirals by Craig Symonds (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Special Award
2009	David M. Glantz, Col., U.S.A. (Ret.) for a lifetime of scholarship in Soviet and Russian archives of the Red Army in World War II

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New

Newsletters from NYMAS now online
Dozens of book reviews in military history.  Al Nofi, editor.
All Google & On-site searchable

No. 42 - Autumn 2007
No. 43 - Winter 2007-2008
No. 44 - Spring 2008: Annual Civil War Issue
No. 45 - Winter 2008-2009
Paid-up NYMAS members get the latest editions

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An updated NYMAS Guide to Military History on the Web:  World War I (extensive) <<click here; thanks to NYMAS member Bob Bulko

 

Tom Wisker, NYMAS Board member and host of Weaponry for almost 30 years	Weaponry military and aviation technology, history, hardware, policy, news, reviews, and analysis, all interspersed with totally inappropriate music.  Since 1982 WBAI, 99.5 FM or online, on Wednesday morning (Tuesday night, if you stay up) from 1:30 to 3:30 am.
Weaponry is now available for download or play at any time. It's on the wbai.org site at archive.wbai.org

 

 

 

NEW
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
From ‘Civil Warriors: Three Lives..."
by Fernando Ortiz Jr.
Illustrated

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The 2010 NYMAS
Book Award
The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:

Hitler’s first war : Adolf Hitler, the men of the List Regiment, and the First World War / Thomas Weber. : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010, ©2010. xvi, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.  ISBN: 9780199233205

 For more information, click here
 

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The 2010 Eugene Feit Award
 in Civil War Studies

To Eric Foner for The Fiery Trial
and for his lifetime contributions to the field of 19th Century American, Civil War and Global History

The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery / Eric Foner : New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2010. Description: xxi, 426 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. ISBN: 9780393066180

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A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
From ‘Dagoes’ to ‘Nervy Spaniards’
American Soldiers’ Views of their Opponents, 1898
 Albert A. Nofi

Illustrated

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The 2009 NYMAS
Book Award
The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:

Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan
1945-1947
by D. M. Giangreco (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009)
 

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The 2009 NYMAS
Civil War Book Award
The winner of the eighth annual NYMAS Civil War Book Award is:


West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace
by Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2009).

For more information, click here

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Special Award

David M. Glantz, Col., U.S.A. (Ret.)

The New York Military Affairs Symposium

honors

Col. DAVID M. GLANTZ

for a lifetime of scholarship
in Soviet and Russian archives
of the Red Army in World War II

 

2009

 

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A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
’Til I Come Marching Home
A Brief History of American Women in
World War II

by C. Kay Larson

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A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

	Beyond Blackwater: Contractors on the Battlefield by Raymond Kimball A paper delivered to the NYMAS Fall Conference on October 13, 2007

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A NYMAS Fulltext Resource


American Privateers in
the War Of 1812


Fulltext, documents and illustrations from a paper
by Bob Rowen
delivered to NYMAS on October 19, 2001 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

 

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A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
Defending the Kremlin: The First Generation of Soviet Strategic Air Defense Systems 1950-60
 by Steven J. Zaloga
 

 

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A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

The Tennessee River Campaign
Chapter IV: from
GREAT NECESSITIES:  THE LIFE, TIMES AND WRITINGS OF ANNA ELLA CARROLL,
1815-1894
by C. Kay Larson

The USAAF’s Other Very Heavy Bomber - the Consolidated B-32


Captioned visuals from Tom Wisker's February 24, 2006 talk

A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

The GI Offensive
in Europe
Fulltext of the talk given to NYMAS on April 25, 2006
 by Peter R. Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army

 

A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
Breaking Ranks:
 The History, Limitations, and Importance of American Active Duty Issue Advocacy

Billy Mitchell

Fulltext from the January 20, 2006 presentation by Raymond Kimball of the Iraq and Afghanistan
Veterans of America

The 2004 NYMAS
Book Award
The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:
Rethinking
Military History
Jeremy Black
New York, NY : Routledge, 2004, 272pp, 0415275342 (pbk.)
0415275334 (hardback)
For more information, click here

WHAT IS HISTORY?
HOW HISTORIANS WORK AND
THE SOURCES THEY USE
Complete slide component from the May 13, 2005 talk by
Don Bittner of the
US Marine Corps
Command and Staff College