Aaron Bennett
The Roswell Report: Case Closed
The “Roswell Incident” has assumed a central place in American folklore since the events of the 1940s in a remote area of New Mexico. In Jul…
U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 1: The Pusan Perimeter
It meant little to most Americans on 25 June 1950 to read in their Sunday newspapers that civil strife had broken out in Korea. They could h…
The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa
The three-month-long battle of Okinawa covered a 700-mile arc fromFormosa to Kyushu and involved a million combatants--Americans,Japanese, B…
Closing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima
Sunday, 4 March 1945, marked the end of the second week of the U.S. invasion of Iwo Jima. By this point the assault elements of the 3d, 4th,…
Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa
"Tarawa Atoll is 2085 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor and 540 miles southeast of Kwajalein in the Marshalls. Betio is the principal isl…
First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal
In the early summer of 1942, intelligence reports of the construction of a Japanese airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon …
U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 2: The Inchon-Seoul Operation
The Inchon Landing was a major amphibious operation, planned in record time and executed with skill and precision. Even more, it was an exem…
Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January Sixth Attack on the United States Capitol
This report will provide greater detail about the multi-step effort devised and driven by Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election and blo…
U.S. Marine Operations In Korea 1950-1953, Volume 4: The East-Central Front
This is the fourth in a series of five volumes dealing with the operations of United States Marines in Korea during the period 2 August 1950…
U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 3: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign
“Where do we go from here?” would hardly have been an oversimplified summary of the questions confronting UN leaders when it became apparent…
U.S. Marine Operations In Korea 1950-1953, Volume 5: Operations in West Korea
In March 1952 the 1st Marine Division redeployed from the East-Central front to West Korea. This new sector, nearly 35 miles in length, anch…
A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense B…
Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan
The [15 June 1944] campaign on Saipan…brought many American casualties, and it also heralded the kind of fighting which would be experienced…
Breaking the Outer Ring: Marine Landings in the Marshall Islands
By the beginning of 1944, United States Marine forces had already made a dramatic start on the conquest of areas overrun by the Japanese ear…
Bloody Beaches: The Marines at Peleliu
On D-Day 15 September 1944, five infantry battalions of the 1st Marine Division’s 1st, 5th, and 7th Marines, in amphibian tractors (LVTs) lu…
Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno
On the early morning of 26 December 1943, Marines poised off the coast of Japanese-held New Britain could barely make out the mile-high bulk…
From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War
In February 1942, Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, ordered the creation of a new unit designated the 1…
Up The Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons
In December that year (1942), patrol flights taking off from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal and from the decks of U.S. fleet carriers in the…
Top of the Ladder: Marine Operations in the Northern Solomons
The objectives assigned on Bougainville were to seize a substantial beachhead and build airstrips. Then American planes could assure final n…
Liberation: Marines in the Recapture of Guam
Guam became a territorial possession of the United States with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1899, ending the Spanish-American War. …