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Military History & Hisotrian. Vol. 60, No. 1. Spring 2008

The Journal of the Company of Military Historians

This journal is always excellent, but this one is particularly good. Articles include:

A Powder Horn Carried in the Battle of New Orleans.

An 1846 Mexican War Veteran's Shield to a U.S. Marine.

Division of British North America into Two Commands, 1775

Medal-Badge of the National Association of Veterans of the Mexican War.

An Introduction to the BAcks and Backmarks of Locally Made Two Piece Confederate Military Buttons.

The U.S. Third Artillery: A War of 1812 Regiment

The $5-a-Day Men and Maryland Homeland Security During World War Two by Merle T. Cole. This article is particularly interesting.

Task Force 4-187, Multinational Force and Observors, Sinai, Egypt.

The great Consumption of Cannon Ammunition, Continental Artillery at Monmoutyh

An 1813 Medical Supply Order by Thomas P. Lowry, M.D. I found this one page article to be very interesting.

The Rising Sun sails Into Tampa Bay: Uniforms and Insignia of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force.

The Southern Independence Association: British Support for the Confederacy, by Jack L. Dickinson. Interesting article.

Historic Army National Guard Armories in New York State by Nancy L. Todd. Again, a very interesting article.

The French Army's Irish Brigade in America, 1778-1783.

Rhode Island Light Artillery Pickelhaube, ca 1880.

The Soldier's Monument, Brimfield , Massachusetts.

Uniform Irregularities in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War.

A portrayal of an Argentine infantryman, ca 1938-1940, is on the back cover. For all the world, he looks like a German infantryman from the same period.
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Rifle, May 2008, No. 237

Horse Cavalry Carbines by Mike Venturino.

Interesting examination of a collection of US carbines, starting with those of the 1860s and going up to the Krag. Not a book type treatment, and not covering every odd carbine used in the Civil War, but fairly interesting.
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The just out edition of The American Rifleman has an article on the early history of the Garand rifle and its competitors that's pretty well done, for students of that rifle.

The same issue also has an article on the FN SCAR, the new "modular" rifle adopted by the service for some special forces. The rifle bears the Navy's "Mk" designation, so it's frankly really unclear if the new weapon is limited to the Navy or not. Anyhow, it's interesting in relation to several things, one thing being the ongoing gas impingement problems with the M16/M4, and another thing being the interesting contrast between the 1930s and now, given that in the 1930s the US Army had its own small arms design capacity, which it does not now.
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