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by Richard Morain, Maryland Museum of Military History "The Maryland 400" at the Battle of Brooklyn Throughout history, there have been...

Allied Engineers Plan for D-Day by Joseph Balkoski 121st Engineers, 29th Division on Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944 Rommel had kept the German...

The Fifth Maryland Infantry Regiment was organized at Baltimore City, Maryland, in September 1861, to serve three years. On the...

On this day 80 years ago, Major Thomas Howie was killed in action in the outskirts of St. Lo. It was the day before the 29th Infantry...

Ike Selects D-Day by Joseph Balkoski For four months Eisenhower had focused his undivided attention on Overlord, but as of May 8, 1944,...

By Edward Heimiller, Archivist, Maryland Museum of Military History Thirty years ago, in 1984, thoroughbred racehorse Gate Dancer...

By Richard Morain, Volunteer at the Maryland Museum of Military History As work continues at the Maryland Museum of Military History, the...

A Soldier’s Poem from the Maryland National Guard and Naval Militia Newsletter No. 21 April, 1940 As a result of thirty years...

Ike Takes On Overlord By Joseph Balkoski The name of Dwight Eisenhower will forever be intertwined with the history of D-Day. But for...

The D-Day Airborne Mission By Joseph Balkoski Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Nevertheless, in Operation Overlord the Allies...

By Joshua Gamma, Museum Curator, Maryland Museum of Military History If you are a Marylander of a certain age, you probably listened to...

Rommel and the Atlantic Wall by Joseph Balkoski General Montgomery’s revised OVERLORD plan strove to ensure victory by relying on that...

Prior to the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776, General William Smallwood’s Regiment composed in a large part of the sons of the...

Operation Fortitude Fools the Germans by Joseph Balkoski By the third day of the Tehran summit, code-named “Eureka,” that trinity of...

Montgomery Tackles Overlord by Joseph Balkoski On New Year’s Day, 1944, the two most famous Englishmen of their day drove north toward...

Exercise Tiger by Joseph Balkoski In The Guns at Last Light, page 191, Rick Atkinson depicted the August 5, 1944, death of Rear Admiral...

In the closing days of June 1776, British troops under General William Howe, having evacuated Boston, sailed into New York harbor. In...

On September 17, 1862, the bloodiest day of any American war occurred on the soil of the state of Maryland near the village of Sharpsburg...

Overlord Security Measures by Joseph Balkoski In April 1944 the restaurant in Claridge’s, the renowned Mayfair hotel just blocks away...