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The Michigan Company of Military Historians and Collectors!
GUEST SPEAKER FOR JUNE 2009
The June speaker will be Nick Macker. He was in active duty (Army Armor 1988-92), then he joined a Reserve Military Police Unit and was deployed to Guantanamo Detention Facility where he spent a year. He will speak about his duties and experiences at Gitmo.
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NOW AVAILABLE IN DVD
OPEN MESS 2008
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Moving the U-505
Imagine the unique engineering challenges involved in moving the U-505. How do you move a National Historic landmark that weighs as much as three Statues of Liberty and is nearly a city block long? Then, once it is moved, how do you lower it four stories into a new exhibit space?
The new exhibit for the U-505 is worth every penny of admission.
From The July program “Top Guns of 43”
The Carriers of the Great Lakes
(Click for video)
Korean War Not Forgotten!
Public display on the Korean War
From June to the end of July 2008
at the Grandville Public Library
Grandville, Michigan
During the first days of June 1950 the Cold War became hotter than ever before when North Korea invaded South Korea in an unexpected attack which tested the resolve of the democratic world and the the United Nations. The conflict resulting from that event has been largely...(continues in),
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, done in 1992, was commissioned by the National Guard Heritage Foundation.
Related links
65th Infrantry Regiment in Korea Website
65th Infantry Documentary Film Website
"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
