At the beginning of World War II, professor Lauren Post, San Diego State College, asked his students entering military service to write to him. Thousands of letters arrived from places like Pearl Harbor, North Africa, and Normandy, beginning with the salutation, “Dear Doc,” and describing vivid accounts of ...
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No Forgotten Fronts
From Classrooms to Combat
An American war story told though the voices of a college community
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Italian Assault Craft, 1940-1945
Human Torpedoes and other Special Attack Weapons
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In stark contrast to the modest performance of its large surface fleet in World War II, the Italian Navy’s smallest units achieved its most spectacular successes. It made a specialty of unconventional methods of attack—explosive motorboats, human torpedoes, and miniature submarines—that were employed with ingenuity and ...
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