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  1. Bayonets, anyone?

    The things you find cleaning junk out of your bedroom! Room-mate pulled a bayonet out of the black hole that is her bedroom, asked me if I know anything about them. I don't, so hence this thread. The bayonet was given to her by an ex-boyfriend, long since gone, and was reportedly acquired by his...

  2. Sailor MacArthur

    No, not what you think. No, this thread is about ANOTHER MacArthur entirely, to wit, one Arthur MacArthur, 1876-1923, the older brother of a certain general who tends not to be held in excessive adulation on this forum. I always wondered about Doug's sibling who died of appendicitis at the...

  3. Improve Union Army Ciphers

    Because I love me anything to do with the Union side of the American Civil War, and since much of my leisure reading over the past couple of months has concerned another hardy perennial interest of mine, to wit, cryptography, I have decided to combine the two hobbies. If you don't know anything...

  4. Not another MacArthur was a jerk thread!

    So here I am slogging my way through the Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) of one Douglas MacArthur, our forum's favorite whipping boy, and I have made it all the way up to page 33 where I am stopped cold. Because that page-stuck in the middle of internal correspondence concerning...

  5. Pop Quiz for The Historically Minded!

    I am not certain if this is the correct forum for this thread. I apologize in advance for my ignorance. Now to the quiz! Which of the following officers commanded the most troops during the First World War? A-Dwight David Eisenhower B-Douglas MacArthur C-Bernard Law Montgomery D-George...

  6. Buell takes Chattanooga!

    What it says on the tin. In the summer of 1862, Major General Don Carlos Buell, Commanding General of the Army of the Ohio, manages to narrowly beat General Braxton Bragg's Army of Mississippi in a race to the vital rail center of Chattanooga. Is this even possible? If it is possible, could...

  7. A change in command at Kasserine Pass

    As history tells us, the commanding general of the US II Corps, Lloyd Fredendall did not fare too well at Kasserine Pass. Before replacing him, the Allied commander Dwight Eisenhower offered the command to two other officers who refused the position. One of them was Mark Clark, then currently...

  8. Operation Iceburg in 1944?

    During the Sextant Conference at Cairo in November, 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt surprises the Joint Chiefs of Staff with a set of marching orders for the following year. He has decided to stage a daring invasion of the Ryukyu Islands in 1944, and sets a target date of November 1st...
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