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Atlantic Lynchpin
The Azores in Two World Wars
By Guy Warner

On a map, the Azores appear as nine tiny specks in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but their location was to prove strategically vital in two world wars. The Atlantic became a crucial battleground twice within the space of 25 years, as the U.S. arsenal of democracy sent firstly stores, arms, and equipment, followed by many thousands of troops ...

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A Daring Defense in the Azores

By Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Armstrong, U.S. Navy
March 2014
At the 1814 Battle of Fayal, Britain’s finest outnumbered the privateersmen 4 to 1—but odds can be misleading.
top: COURTESY OF AUTHOR, bottom: U.S. NAVY

By Way of the Azores

By Robert Barrie Beattie, Former Chief Machinist's Mate, U.S. Naval Reserve
December 2002
A U.S. Army lieutenant colonel subscribes to the spellbinding memoir of his grandfather, who goes to World War I in ...

Manuela Guill

Ms. Guill currently works as a desk officer for the Europe, Africa, and Middle East Region within the Office of International Programs, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security. She was an intelligence officer and reserve air attaché during her 20 years in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserve. The Azores have been the focus of Ms. Guill’s studies and writings in part because her maternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from the Azores in the 1920s.

William Meara

William R. Meara served on active duty in the U.S. Army from 1948 to 1988, attaining the rank of captain, and then joined the U.S. Foreign Service where he has served as a diplomat in Honduras, Spain, the Dominican Republic, the Azores, and the United Kingdom.

The Navigator's Prism

By Lieut.-Commander John B. Blish, U. S. Navy
January 1903
With the close of the last century there came about a most active period of telegraph cable laying in the ...

Nine Keys to Atlantic Defense

By Lieutenant (J.G.) James H. Guill, U. S. Naval Reserve
October 1953
The huge convoy—the individual ships loaded with troops, military equipment, and supplies—put out from its rendezvous at Halifax on the ...

A Joyul Spirit

By Captain Stanford E. Moses, U. S. Navy (Retired)
November 1936
The following story of the life and death of Sir Richard Grenville, particularly of his death and manner of dying ...