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Click here to go to the "History of the Chosin Story"
Korea, 1950-51
Table of Contents for
75 chapters!
The Changjin Journal

NEW
Chapter 75
NEW IN THIS ISSUE we provide initial directives of X Corps regarding protection of the MSR, regrouping of units in the Chosin Reservoir area, and activities at and south of Chinhung-ni where the Chinese had been attempting a deep envelopment.




REVIEW by George A. Rasula
THE COLDEST WINTER
 by David Halberstam

 

A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
Click here to go to Air Force Combat Units of World War II - Part 2
Air Force Combat Units of World War II
Complete 506 page work, keyword searchable

Edited by Maurer Maurer ; USAF Historical Division, Air University, Washington :Date: 1986


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Click here to see the graphics from Steven J. Zaloga's Talk on February 2, 2001 on Operation Cobra.


 

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A Brief Introduction to the Why We Fight series



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THE IRISH CIVIL WAR, 1922-1923
Full text and illustrations from Paul V. Walsh's talk on  December 11, 1998
 


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France, 1940:
National Failure and the Uses of Defeat

David Gordon
History Department
Bronx Community College

Talk presented at a joint meeting of The Historical Society (New York Section)
 and The New York Military Affairs Symposium
May 10, 2002


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Complete slide presentation from
Nov. 22, 2002 talk:
 Pope v. Lee:
 The Second Manassas Campaign       


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NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History Region 2.

 


Complete slide component from the Jan. 23, 2004,  presentation
Information Warfare:
What it Is, Isn’t, and How it Shapes National Security
by Dr. Daniel Kuehl of
National Defense University  

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The Fall 2006 Conference

October 20-21, 2006
Click here for details & reading list

 

A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

The Battle
of the Boyne
Fulltext of the recent paper presented to NYMAS by
Roger Kennedy



Jessie James

Complete slide component from the October 1, 2004 talk by Capt. Clay Mountcastle of the
 USMA at West Point

The Union War against Confederate Guerrillas


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"All Germany listens to The Fuhrer on the People's Radio"

Gray and Black Radio Propaganda against Nazi Germany
Fulltext of the recent paper
 by Bob Rowen

NEW
Now readable & printable
in Adobe Reader
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Complete slide component from the Feb. 20, 2004 presentation
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by Norman Friedman
Author / NYMAS



A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

America First:
the Anti-War Movement,
 Charles Lindbergh
and the Second World War
 1940-1941


Fulltext of the paper presented to NYMAS by
David Gordon
History Department
Bronx Community College / CUNY Graduate Center on September 26, 2003
 



NEW

1916:
 The Year Germany Was Defeated

Complete slide component from the November 19, 2004 talk by Chuck Steele of the
 USMA History Department
 at West Point

 


 

In Memoriam

Eugene Feit
1948-2010

Outstanding attorney, history scholar and NYMAS' most extraordinary Executive Director, leader,
and author of the NYMAS By-laws.

 

Working, tentative
Fall, 2010 Calendar
Friday evening talks (7 to 9)
and the Fall Saturday All-day Conference

Sept 10SSMAC
Lexington near 37th
The Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939 Jim DingemanNYMAS
Sept. 24Soldiers  Sailors Club, Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill Tom FlemingAuthor / Historian
Oct 8Soldiers  Sailors Club, Lex near 37th Wedemeyer: The Man Who Planned D-Day John J. McLaughlinNew Jersey WW2 Book Club
Oct 15The Intrepid Sea/Air/Space Museum
12th Avenue and 46th St.
 Norman FriedmanAuthor
Oct 22SSMAC
Lex near 37th
The Italian Brothers Paolo MastrolilliAuthor

The Fall Saturday All-day Conference

Oct 30
(Saturday, 10-4)
The Intrepid Sea/Air/Space Museum
12th Avenue and 46th St.
StalingradCol. David Glantz (ret.)Author / Scholar
Nov 5SSMAC
Lex near 37th
Did the Napoleonic Empire Pay for
Itself?
 

Alex Stavropoulos

Graduate Center/CUNY

Nov 19SSMAC
Lex near 37th
The Chinese Civil War in Manchuria,  1945-48 Ed ChenNYMAS Board / Scholar
Dec 3 SSMAC
Lex near 37th
     
Dec 10The Intrepid Sea/Air/Space Museum
12th Avenue and 46th St.
Japan's War Plans: Preparing for Armageddon

Theodore F. Cook, Jr.

William Paterson University of New Jersey / NYMAS Board

Updated Thursday, September 02, 2010 02:31 PM– Bob Rowen rrowen@nymas.org

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public.

They are usually held on Friday evenings at
The Soldiers', Sailors', Marines', Coast Guard and Airmens' Club
283 Lexington Avenue (between 36th and 37th Streets)
New York, NY 10016-3540
from 7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. These Friday lectures are usually held on the 2nd floor in either the North or South Lounge as posted by the staircase.

Alternately, for talks that are held on the Intrepid, attendees must check in at the Intrepid Museum's entry area;  non-NYMAS members must RSVP to rrowen@nymas.org.
The Intrepid Sea/Air/Space Museum
12th Avenue and 46th St.

 

 NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History, Region 2.

Topics and speakers may be subject to change without notice. A current updated schedule is always available at this website (http//:nymas.org)

 

 

   
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NEW Podcasts of Friday Evening Talks

The Chiapas Insurgency

 

recorded January 22, 2010


click here to listen


Bill Weinberg
Photos: http://www.h-alter.org/

Pequot and King Philip's Wars

 

recorded May 7, 2010

 
click here to listen


Prof.  Matthew Muehlbauer & Major Jason Warren
Photos: USMA

Malfeasance in Blue:
The Air Force vs. The Army 

 

recorded May 21, 2010

 
click here to listen


Tom Wisker
Photo: Bob Rowen
 Islam in the French Army during the Great War 

 

recorded Feb. 27, 2009

 
click here to listen


Richard S. Fogarty

Naval Aviation and
U.S. Fleet Problems, 1923-1940


recorded March 20, 2009

 
click here to listen


Al Nofi
Photo: Bob Rowen

Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command during the First World War


recorded January 23, 2009


click here to listen


Mitch Yockelson
National Archives

America's Captives: American POW Policy from the Revolution to the War on Terror


recorded January 9, 2009


click here to listen


Paul Springer
Photo: AV

African American USMA Graduates in the Nineteenth Century


recorded December 12, 2008


click here to listen


Major Jeremy James
Photo: USMA

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The Arthur Goodzeit Award
2009    Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947
by D. M. Giangreco (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009)   
    
2008   Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commanders’ War in Iraq
by Col. Peter R Mansoor (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2008}.
The Civil War Book Award
2009    West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace
by Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh. (
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2009).
 
2008    Lincoln and his Admirals
by Craig Symonds (
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Special Award
2009   

David M. Glantz, Col., U.S.A. (Ret.)

The New York Military Affairs Symposium
honors
Col. DAVID M. GLANTZ
for a lifetime of scholarship
in Soviet and Russian archives
of the Red Army in World War II
 
2009

 




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Please note the new NYMAS regular mail address:

NYMAS
Post Office Box 592
115 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10156-0592
 


or email us anytime at

rrowen@nymas.org

 


 


An updated NYMAS Guide to Military History on the Web:
 World War I (extensive) <<click here; thanks to NYMAS member Bob Bulko
 

 


Tom Wisker, NYMAS Board member and host of  Weaponry for over 25 years
Weaponry
military and aviation technology, history, hardware, policy, news, reviews, and analysis, all interspersed with totally inappropriate music.  Since 1982

WBAI, 99.5 FM or online,
on Wednesday morning
(Tuesday night, if you stay up)
from 1:30 to 3:30 am.

Weaponry is now available for download or play at any time. It's on the wbai.org site at archive.wbai.org

 

 


New Newsletters from NYMAS now online
All Google & On-site searchable

No. 38 - Summer 2006
No. 39 - Fall 2006
No. 40 - Spring 2007: Annual Civil War Issue
No. 41 - Summer 2007

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A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
From ‘Dagoes’ to ‘Nervy Spaniards’
American Soldiers’ Views of their Opponents, 1898

 Albert A. Nofi

Illustrated


The 2009 NYMAS
Book Award

The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:

Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947
by D. M. Giangreco (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009)
 
 For more information, click here

 


The 2009 NYMAS
Civil War Book Award
The winner of the eighth annual NYMAS Civil War Book Award is:


West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace
by Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2009).

For more information, click here


Special Award

David M. Glantz, Col., U.S.A. (Ret.)

The New York Military Affairs Symposium
honors
Col. DAVID M. GLANTZ
for a lifetime of scholarship
in Soviet and Russian archives
of the Red Army in World War II
 
2009


A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
’Til I Come Marching Home
A Brief History of American Women in
World War II


by C. Kay Larson



A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

 

Beyond Blackwater:
Contractors on the Battlefield

by Raymond Kimball

A paper delivered to the NYMAS Fall Conference on October 13, 2007

 


A NYMAS Fulltext Resource


American Privateers in
the War Of 1812



Fulltext, documents and illustrations from a paper
by Bob Rowen
delivered to NYMAS on October 19, 2001 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York






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Click here for Steven Zaloga's article

Defending the Kremlin: The First Generation of Soviet Strategic Air Defense Systems 1950-60
 by Steven J. Zaloga
 





A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

The Tennessee River Campaign
Chapter IV: from
GREAT NECESSITIES:  THE LIFE, TIMES AND WRITINGS OF ANNA ELLA CARROLL,
1815-1894
by C. Kay Larson






The USAAF’s Other Very Heavy Bomber - the Consolidated B-32



Captioned visuals from Tom Wisker's February 24, 2006 talk




A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

The GI Offensive
in Europe

Fulltext of the talk given to NYMAS on April 25, 2006
 by Peter R. Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army


 






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Billy Mitchell


Fulltext from the January 20, 2006 presentation by Raymond Kimball of the Iraq and Afghanistan
Veterans of America



Breaking Ranks:
 The History, Limitations, and Importance of American Active Duty Issue Advocacy






The 2004 NYMAS
Book Award
The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:
Rethinking
Military History
Jeremy Black
New York, NY : Routledge, 2004, 272pp, 0415275342 (pbk.)
0415275334 (hardback)

For more information, click here







WHAT IS HISTORY?
HOW HISTORIANS WORK AND

THE SOURCES THEY USE

Complete slide component from the May 13, 2005 talk by
Don Bittner of the
US Marine Corps
Command and Staff College
 





A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

Springing to the Call
a Documentary View of Women in the American Civil War
edited by C. Kay Larson





A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
Women’s War Work
 Edited By
 Lady Randolph Churchill 1916

 

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