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A Scottish Hero?
The
Somers
Mutiny
Ted Williams at War
Israel’s Close Call
Riding a Torpedo
Cedar Creek, 1864
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MARCH 2021
Letters
6
News
8
Features
30
China’s War
on Drugs
The Qing dynasty twice warred
with the British empire over
opium, leaving a bitter legacy.
By Mark Simner
22
Last Shot
at Glory
Recalled home in May 1945,
U-853
instead tempted fate
in combat off Rhode Island.
By Dave Kindy
Departments
14
Interview
Moritz Föllmer
Culture of
Destruction
16
Valor
Torpedo Rider
2
MILITARY HISTORY
MARCH 2021
Reviews
70
War Games
78
Captured!
80
48
Justice From
the Yardarms
In 1842 the captain of the brig
USS
Somers
hanged three
sailors for having plotted
mutiny—but had they?
By Paul X. Rutz
62
‘The Thumper’
Goes to War
Red Sox legend Ted Williams
served in World War II and,
to his surprise, in Korea.
By John Miles
40
For Covenant
and King
In 17th century Scotland
James Graham found true
glory defending the Crown.
By Matthew Beazley
56
Yom Kippur War
An Arab attack on its holiest
day was only the first shock
to befall Israel in 1973.
By Jon Guttman
18
What We
Learned From...
Cedar Creek,
1864
20
Hardware
Siluro a
Lenta Corsa
76
Hallowed
Ground
Mont-Ormel,
France
On the cover:
The bridge and deck-gun crews of a German U-boat look on as their latest victim‚ likely
a tanker, begins its journey to the deep. (Attack
at Dawn,
Tom W. Freeman, SM&S Naval Prints, Inc.)
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