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Most comprehensive record of the My Lai Massacre in private hands.
This is a 37-volume archive of documents from the 1971 My Lai Massacre court-martial of Colonel Oran K. Henderson. Henderson was the highest-ranking officer tried in connection with My Lai, one of the most horrific events in American military history, and the last soldier to face a court-martial. The court-martial lasted 62 days and on December 17, 1971, Henderson was found not guilty. Henderson's court-martial ties for the longest court-martial in U.S. Army history with that of Lieutenant William Calley, the only member of the U.S. Army found guilty in connection with My Lai. (more details)
Operational archive documenting the final preparations for the invasion of Okinawa, the last great amphibious campaign of World War II.
Okinawa Shima and Adjacent Islands. Screen Plan Okinawa--1. / U.S.S. Monrovia (APA-31) Amphibious Assault on Okinawa.
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An extraordinary discovery and an even more improbable survival, this archive from the U.S.S. Monrovia preserves the operational record of the April 1, 1945, Invasion of Okinawa, the final great amphibious campaign of World War II (1939 - 1945). Comprising aerial reconnaissance photographs, operational maps, and briefing papers prepared as late as March 31, 1945, the collection captures the tense final hours before the assault. Few surviving archives so vividly illustrate the intelligence, planning, and meticulous coordination behind one of the most consequential military landings of the twentieth century. (more details)
Cold War Era Soviet Plan to Repel an American Arctic Invasion.
Организация и ведение противодесантной операции на морском побережье во взаимодействии с военно-морским флотом / [Organization and Conduct of an Anti-Amphibious Operation on the Seacoast in Coordination with the Navy].
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This is a one-of-a-kind 1952 Cold War Era top-secret report with maps, prepared for the Operations Directorate of the Northern Military District of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. The booklet discusses detailed plans to repel a much-feared 'Anglo-American imperialist' invasion of the Soviet Union from the Arctic. It offers unique insight into the Soviet perspective and defensive planning at the height of the Cold War (1947 - 1991). (more details)
A glimpse into how WWII aviators were briefed before missions.
[Kwajalein Atoll Aerial Attack Archive.]
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This is a 1943-1944 intelligence archive prepared for the aerial campaign preceding the invasion of Kwajalein Atoll, offering unique insights into how American World War II aircrews were briefed for combat missions. Strategically located, Kwajalein was occupied and fortified by Imperial Japan early in the war and became a principal American objective in the Central Pacific. U.S. forces landed on Kwajalein and Roi-Namur on January 31, 1944, following months of reconnaissance and preparatory bombing. Comprising annotated aerial photographs, target maps, a manuscript planning overlay, and a regional aviation chart, this archive reveals how pilots moved from broad theater geography to the identification of individual airfields, warehouses, gun positions, and other tactical targets. (more details)
Controversial eyewitness to the final moments of The Red Baron.
This is a c. 1970 archive by gunner George Ridgway detailing his eyewitness account of the World War I (1914 - 1918) downing of the 'Red Baron' Manfred von Richthofen (1892 - 1918), the 'ace-of-aces' and perhaps the world's most famous fighter pilot. (more details)