Armor S.A.

Dien Bien Phu, French Indochina.(Hallowed Ground)
Military History; 1/1/2010; 1323 words; ...its fight to retain the nation's colony in Indochina. A Vietnamese...war against Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces. The French...Maginot Line; in 1940 German armor had made short work of the French...warfare--a siege. Piroth's guns were impotent against the...

Honored by one's enemy.(Valor)(Lt. Cmdr. Gerald Roope)
Military History; 1/1/2010; 1121 words; ...Hipper. Pounded by the heavy cruiser's secondary batteries, Glowworm rammed Hipper's bow, tore away 130 feet of its armor belt and ripped a major gash in the hull...hundred eleven members of Glowworm's company perished, including Roope...

Duel in the rising sun: a young aviation machinist's mate and a veteran Japanese Zero pilot squared off at Pearl Harbor. Only one would survive.(Essay)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 2666 words; ...the window and yelled, "It's Jap planes!" The barracks shuddered...shirt, boots and a white sailor's cap--the mix of uniform irrelevant...boats were engulfed in flames. Armor-piercing rounds ripped through...into the eastern sky. Kaneohe's PBYs, scouts of the Pacific Fleet...

Operation Barbarossa: The Struggle for Russia.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
Military History; 1/1/2010; 584 words; ...War II. The first of the game's three campaigns tracks the German...while the third covers Germany's Case Blue offensive. Each comprises...arms strategy utilizing a mix of armor, infantry and air units proves...simplistic or repetitive, the game's intuitive play and great historical...

Made in America: long before the United States officially entered World War II, it was the world's biggest exporter of fighter aircraft.(Report)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 4968 words; ...provided a needed boost to America's depressed aircraft industries...n, it also gave the nation's military planners vital information...performance, firepower and armor protection--when compared to...Consider, for instance, what U.S. Marine Captain Phillip R. White...