Fred H. Allison

Hours before U.S. Navy pilots staggered the powerful Japanese fleet bearing down on Midway Island on 4 June 1942—changing the course of World War II—25 U.S. Marine Corps pilots of ...

From air combat over North Vietnam to closure in present-day Hanoi: a story of reconciliation and the healing of old wounds.

Getting the 37-mm guns past the reef at Tarawa looked to be an impossible task—but this Marine found a way to make it happen.

They carry a historical authenticity that perhaps other memoir-type accounts do not have.

In the late summer of 1950, the U.S. Army twice called on Marine Corsairs and Leatherneck infantrymen to reverse North Korean offensives and save the Pusan Perimeter.

Retreat, Hell! W. E. B. Griffin. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2004. 576 pp. $26.95. Reviewed by Major Fred H. Allison, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve (Retired) Retreat, Hell! is the ...