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The Michigan Company of Military Historians and Collectors!
Puerto Rico's 65th U.S. Infantry Regiment in South Korea, 1951
The battle portrayed in the painting was the last recorded battalion-sized bayonet attack by the U.S. Army. The painting by J. Andrea was done in 1992, was commissioned by the National Guard Heritage Foundation.
Related links
65th Infrantry Regiment in Korea Website
65th Infantry Documentary Film Website
RECOMMENDED FILMS
"Blind Spot"
A Commentary on "The War" by Ken Burns
(a personal commentary by José A. Amorós)
Luckiest Bubba Alive!
"That's the last of them things (.50Cal.) we're doing!"
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ABOUT US
"The Michigan Company of Military Historians and Collectors (MCMHC) is a private organization dedicated to the observation and study of military history and to the memorialization of those involved in some of those historical moments.
Our membership is composed of a cross section of society which includes combat veterans, non-veterans, professional and amateur historians, modelers and collectors. Membership is by invitation and election only. Some of our members are distinguished and recognized authorities in their fields of military history, others have experienced first hand some of the most momentuous times in military history, and the rest of us just wish we had.
Military history as a discipline suffers from a kind of stygma. It is more often than not misunderstood as the realm of war lovers and warmongers. And yet, there is not one aspect of human history which either directly or indirectly can escape the study of military history.
Many of our past and present advances in technology, medicine, and even our present social organization are connected in one way or another or due to some aspect of human conflict the subject of which is military history .
Bronze "sickle sword" known as "khopesh". This was a weapon which became standard in the Middle East and can be traced to Summer 3,000 years ago.
As far back to the very beginings of civilization, and before, human beings have sought to satisfy their needs by various means and implements. The choice between negotiation and force have always being present in human conflict but when negotiation failed human beings used ingenuity to devised means and methods to impose their will. Eventually these evolved into the well developed means and methods of present day. Military history covers those developments.
José A. Amorós
Editor & Former Commandant 2007
