Articles written by Christopher Eger

Since 1937, first the Soviet Union and now Russia has maintained floating ice stations in the Arctic Ocean.

Apr 24, 2012 - Christopher Eger

A review of World War I: The African Front: An Imperial War on the African Continent, by Edward Paice.

Mar 25, 2012 - Christopher Eger

The Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Biloxi served 20 years in the US Navy, winning nine battlestars.

Feb 21, 2012 - Christopher Eger

Secret Nazi Weather Outpost in Canada 1943-1981

Jan 4, 2012 - Christopher Eger

A Review of the new mega-manual by Skyhorse publishing on everything combat related in the US Army.

Dec 17, 2011 - Christopher Eger

A Review of the new book by Louis Sadler and Charles Harris about Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence

Dec 13, 2011 - Christopher Eger

A review of the amazing true story of how the smallest of the armed forces helped save the Gulf Coast after the hurricanes of 2005

Dec 13, 2011 - Christopher Eger

A short Mongolian mare, purchased for $250, became a decorated USMC war hero during the Korean War.

Dec 11, 2011 - Christopher Eger

A look at the 14-week One Station Unit Training (OSUT) Program that forges civilians into US Army Infantrymen.

Dec 11, 2011 - Christopher Eger

Many ship names such as the Hornet, Wasp and Enterprise have been reused over the past 200 years to keep heritage alive in the US Navy.

Nov 5, 2011 - Christopher Eger

Franklin Roosevelt one of the most groundbreaking assistant secretaries of the navy in modern time. A new book by James Tertius de Kay shows why.

Oct 24, 2011 - Christopher Eger

The United States Navy built and maintained more 50 battleships over a 100-year period in 3 distinct types.

Oct 9, 2011 - Christopher Eger

A Review of Paul Petersen's Quantrill at Lawrence, The Untold Story

Sep 18, 2011 - Christopher Eger

Review of Hitler's Pre-Emptive War by Henrik O Lunde

Sep 18, 2011 - Christopher Eger

Floating just south of the equator is the World's last active all gun-armed cruiser.

Sep 5, 2011 - Christopher Eger

Of Surfmen, Cuttermen, Albatross, Pterodactyls, Mariners, and Queens, the US Coast Guard has several unique and colorful awards and references.

Aug 13, 2011 - Christopher Eger

A review of Eric Hammel's work Islands of Hell US Marines in the Western Pacific 1944-45

Jul 19, 2011 - Christopher Eger

A review Barry Stentiford's The American Home Guard: The State Militia in the 20th Century

Jul 19, 2011 - Christopher Eger

A Review of The French Foreign Legion: An Illustrated History by Jean-Denis GG Lepage

Jul 12, 2011 - Christopher Eger

A Review of Mark Depue's Patrolling Baghdad: A Military Police Company and the War in Iraq

Jul 12, 2011 - Christopher Eger

A Review of All the Tsar's Men: The Russian General Staff and the Fate of the Empire 1898-1914

Jul 12, 2011 - Christopher Eger

A Review of the Red Army's Do-it-Yourself, Nazi-bashing guerrilla warfare manual

Jul 12, 2011 - Christopher Eger

In 1964, after six years of shore-side tests, the US Navy built an undersea habitat almost 200-feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico

Jul 4, 2011 - Christopher Eger

In 1943, an unlikely group of 'drunken' British businessmen raided the German shipping in the neutral Portuguese port of Goa.

Jun 1, 2011 - Christopher Eger

The German merchant ship Ehrenfels was interned in the neutral Portuguese colony of Goa at the beginning of WWII only to be used as a floating spy base.

Jun 1, 2011 - Christopher Eger

In a scheme to trade valuable goods and attack Allied forces in the Indian Ocean, nearly fifty German and Italian submarines left Europe for Asian waters.

Jun 1, 2011 - Christopher Eger

The rugged F1M1 seaplane flew from virtually every large Japanese ship and remote sea base during World War Two.

May 26, 2011 - Christopher Eger

The low-key and little-known Hunter UAV has flown more than 100,000 hours in support if the US Army in the past 22 years.

May 24, 2011 - Christopher Eger

Threatened with destruction this time last year, the USS Olympia Summit held at the Independence Seaport Museum produced four possible new caretakers.

May 24, 2011 - Christopher Eger

The UAVs of the deep, the US Navy has a fleet of 150 Slocum Gliders coming to a littoral near you.

May 21, 2011 - Christopher Eger

These P-51 drivers had the highest number of aces, most German jets downed and second highest overall victory tally in just 14-months of combat.

May 19, 2011 - Christopher Eger

The A-1 Skyraider, known as the Spad to its pilots, dropped everything including broken toilets during the Cold War - and even scratched a few MIGS to boot.

May 17, 2011 - Christopher Eger

Thought to be obsolete by NATO standards since 1985, the six retired Ahmad Yani class frigates have been given a new lease on life.

May 17, 2011 - Christopher Eger

To celebrate 100 years of naval air power, the US sea services has repainted and put on tour some 75 specially-painted aircraft to commemorate the event.

Apr 26, 2011 - Christopher Eger

The amazing story of how the 'Fort' was brought to Fort Walton Beach Florida by the Walton Guard in the American Civil War.

Apr 26, 2011 - Christopher Eger

Walking away from his country at age 35, Prince Aage of Denmark became a revered hero in the French Foreign Legion

Apr 2, 2011 - Christopher Eger

After surviving World War II, three hurricanes, an oil spill and 79 years at sea, the St Christopher is still fighting - this time in court.

Mar 12, 2011 - Christopher Eger

Introduced after the Korean War, the M67 was often seen in Vietnam, carried by Rangers in the Cold War and now protects US troops in Afghanistan.

Mar 1, 2011 - Christopher Eger

Fearing a Nazi invasion, the British military turned to the Swift Training Rifle to educate its Home Guard and RAF personnel in basic marksmanship

Mar 1, 2011 - Christopher Eger

Located in Laurel Mississippi, the Veterans Memorial Museum is a little known gem of military collections.

Feb 27, 2011 - Christopher Eger

Unrepentant uber-Nazi Commando Otto Skorzeny spent the rest of his life as a soldier of fortune.

Jan 28, 2011 - Christopher Eger

Otto Skorzeny, hero of the Mussolini liberation at Grand Sasso, spent the rest of WWII as Hitler's personal black bag man.

Jan 28, 2011 - Christopher Eger

SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny was famous for a number of operations in World War Two including freeing Mussolini.

Jan 28, 2011 - Christopher Eger

A Review of Fort Morgan by Bob England, about the historic fortification at the mouth of Mobile Bay

Jan 28, 2011 - Christopher Eger

A review of the military autobiography of John Harvey, Welshman in the French Foreign Legion in Syria in 1925

Jan 20, 2011 - Christopher Eger

One of the most basic and effective artillery pieces of the Civil War was the Coehorn mortar.

Jan 20, 2011 - Christopher Eger

Maj Richard D Winters, commander of Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (Airborne) on D-Day passed away today at age 92.

Jan 9, 2011 - Christopher Eger

The embattled USS Olympia (C-6) which is currently on display at the in Philadelphia where she has rested since 1957 may alternatively join the Pacific Flee

Dec 28, 2010 - Christopher Eger

The USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) ushered in modern NATO navy surface warfare and now sits in mothballs awaiting rescue.

Dec 9, 2010 - Christopher Eger

The Great Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942 engaged hundreds of enemy aircraft over the Hollywood Hills....or did it?

Dec 8, 2010 - Christopher Eger