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    Calendar
    Mar 23-24 CA, Red Bluff. Big Red Bluff Gun Show. Red Bluff Fairgrounds. Sat. 9am-5pm, Sun. 9am-3pm. D&S Productions, Dave Fernandez, 530-567-5192, daf360hd@att.net Mar 29-30 TN, Franklin. Militaria Relics Show Nashville. Franklin/Cool Springs Marriot
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    Mission Capable
    Owning an historic military vehicle (HMV) such as a 2-1/2-ton “deuce” means different things to different people. Some folks love every minute of the time and effort that goes into doing a complete restoration. For others, the primary reason for owni
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    The Youngest Sailor?
    In 1942, Seaman Calvin Graham, age 13, was decorated for valor in a South Pacific battle. When his mother learned where he’d been, she revealed his secret to the Navy, The newly christened battleship USS South Dakota steamed Calvin Graham out of Phil
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    The ‘Staghound’
    It sometimes happens that coincidence can be an unexpected, but important factor when it comes to developing a new design for an armored fighting vehicle and an army looking for a particular vehicle to suit its needs. That is just what happened in Ju
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    Canadian Contribution
    In the spring of 1941, the United States was not yet embroiled in World War II, but the British Empire was. The war was conducted on the sea, in the air and on the battlefield, of course, but it also had to be won on the industrial front as well. In
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    Homefront News
    Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney, acknowledged as the Marine Corps’ deadliest sniper, died Feb. 12 at his home in Baker City. He was 75. Mawhinney was credited with 103 confirmed kills in Vietnam over the span of 16 months in 1968 and 1969. He was eventuall
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    Collecting The ‘Dirty Dozen’
    People seem to purchase WWII German memorabilia for three basic reasons: love of history, as a vehicle to turn a profit, or a combination of both. I myself, most appreciate the first type of buyer — one who purchases militaria for its historical sign
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    A Tale Of 2 Active Veterans Agencies
    In 2022, it was estimated that 16.2 million military veterans lived in the United States with 4.3 million estimated to be over 75 years of age — including about 120,000 WWII veterans who are still with us. The VFW, with about 1.6 million members and
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    Tech Tips
    How often do you need to balance your HMV’s tires? If you never drove it anywhere, the answer would be once — when they were installed on the rims. However, most HMVs that are not pure show vehicles are driven, and things happen while driving that ca
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    German Girls, American Boys
    One of the first policies established by the U.S. Third Army when it began the occupation of the German Rhineland in December 1918 was the “Anti-Fraternization” rule. For American soldiers, this rule made it a crime to speak to any German, male or fe
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    We Don’t Know What We Missed — And Maybe That’s A Good Thing
    We all love the stories of those “barn” finds, and of course who doesn’t dream of walking into a garage sale and finding a ton of bring-backs that were at the back of somebody’s closet? Sadly, those days are largely gone. What can possibly be left in
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    Favorite Finds
    If you have a “Favorite Find” from your collection, drop us an email and some photos at Military@aimmedia.com. We’d love to see it and share it with your fellow military collectibles and vehicles fans. ■
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    Pointe du Hoc
    In the early hours on the morning of Tuesday, June 6, 1944, a small flotilla of landing craft, supported by several other craft, including two DUKW amphibious trucks, were carrying men from the 2nd Rangers towards the Normandy coast. Commanded by Lie
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    Home Cookin’!
    NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Veterans Day draws its origins from the end of World War I, when Armistice Day was created to mark the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. Observed every November 11 since then to honor all military veter
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    Military Trader
    VP/General Manager, Collectibles: Corinne Zielke Editorial Director: Brian Earnest BEarnest@aimmedia.com 715-257-6033 Online Editor: Mike Eppinger meppinger@aimmedia.com Graphic Designer Julie Green Advertising Sales Representative: Rich Murowski RMu
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    Military Whatizit?
    Reader Anthony Kniffin is looking for help identifying this sword. “It’s a sword proper, but more of a 10-15 lb. brass cast copy of the original sword from what I can tell,” he says. “It looks as though it was mounted on a monument of some type, but
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    Gettysburg – Just Down The Road From The MAX Show
    History is more than just the artifacts offered for sale at the next military collectibles show. That is notable as within an hour’s drive of the York Expo Center, the current home of the Ohio Valley Military Society’s annual Military Antique Xtravag
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    M88A1 Tank Recovery Vehicle
    The original M88 was powered by a gasoline engine. However, the Army decided to move to an all-diesel fleet of armored vehicles. Accordingly, the diesel-powered M88A1 was introduced. Additionally, a program to upgrade older M88s to A1 status was unde
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    M32A1B3 Tank Recovery Vehicle
    In an effort to provide a maximum amount of parts commonality between tank retrievers and the vehicles they were to support, four types of Sherman-based recovery vehicles were built. Based on the M4, M4A1, M4A2 and M4A3 chassis, respectively, were th
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    Birth Of A Workhorse
    WWII had taught the U.S. Army many lessons with regard to wheeled vehicles. Studies begun during the war, and accelerated immediately thereafter, laid the framework for future series of idealized wheeled tactical vehicles. The vehicles envisioned wou
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    M51 Recovery Vehicle
    This huge tank retriever was created using the suspension and automotive components of the M103 heavy tank. Just as the M103 was shunned by the Army but used by the Marines, so it was with the M51. The U.S. Marine Corps adopted the M51 in 1958 and us
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    Sometimes You Need To Play The Greater Fool
    Recently, I was told by a few friends in the military collectible world that they were “cashing out” — they’d reached a point where the joy of collecting wasn’t there any longer. I respect their decisions, but it also reminded of how another friend a
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    M88 Tank Recovery Vehicle
    As the size and weight of America’s tanks increased, it became evident that even the improved M74 would not be up to the task. In 1959, production of the M88 began by Bowen-McLaughlin-York Inc., of York, Pa., which had also designed the vehicle. The
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    Allach: Beauty In A Dark Regime
    Adolf Hitler and the “Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei” (NSDAP – Nazi Party) came to power using a number of political tactics which reshaped German economics, national pride, centuries-old racism and ethnic dominance, all the while hei
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    The George Cross
    On September 24 1940, during a period of WWII known as the “Blitz”, when British cities were being subjected to heavy bombing raids by the German Luftwaffe, King George VI made a radio broadcast from Buckingham Palace in London to announce the instit
    Military Trader1 min readLeadership
    Military Trader
    VP/General Manager, Collectibles: Corinne Zielke Editorial Director: Brian Earnest BEarnest@aimmedia.com 715-257-6033 Online Editor: Mike Eppinger meppinger@aimmedia.com Graphic Designers Ellie DeSautel / Julie Green Advertising Sales Representative
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    M578 Recovery Vehicle
    Among the smallest tracked recovery vehicles fielded by the U.S. Army is the M578. Chief among the reasons for its bantam weight is the fact that it was not originally designed to be a recovery vehicle at all! Rather, it was to be an air-transportabl
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    Special Access
    Most amateur military historians spend more time online or in books than we spend actually handling vintage firearms. Most of us can’t own more than a few historic firearms, and the ones we own may not be in the best condition. Some of the finest wea
    Military Trader4 min read
    Jonga
    In a previous article we learned about the Willys M-606 “high hood” jeep, which was manufactured in the 1950s and ’60s for the U.S. military and for export, and served during the Vietnam War; its civilian counterparts being the CJ3B in the U.S. and C
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    Combat Support Boat
    An army must always expect the unexpected if it is to survive. This was certainly the case facing the Allied armies during the Second World War, when they were confronted with problem of crossing rivers where the bridges had been destroyed by the Ger

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