Mark Calhoun
Senior historian at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, LA. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/contributors/dr-mark-t-calhoun?page=0
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What Happened to Lieutenant Curtis R. Biddick? | The National WWII Museum | New Orleanswww.nationalww2museum.org Spoilers ahead for Episode 3 of Masters of the Air.
Normandy Academy 2024 | The National WWII Museum | New Orleanswww.nationalww2museum.org This course examines leadership and decision-making scenarios during the Battle of Normandy. Through readings, battlefield visits in Normandy, and online discussion forums, students analyze the decisi...
Lesley McNair: Unsung Architect of the US Army | 2023 International Conference on WWIIyoutu.be "General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the US Army" features a discussion on General Lesley J. McNair, exploring his significant yet underrecognized ...
World War II Military Historian at The National WWII Museumeasyapply.co The National World War II Museum seeks a World War II Military Historian to be a part of the intellectual life of the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of...
The Cairo and Tehran Conferences | The National WWII Museum | New Orleanswww.nationalww2museum.org In a series of high-stakes strategic conferences in late 1943, the Allies made several key decisions that shaped wartime strategy, while reflecting the changing balance of power between the Allied nat...
Operation COBRA | WWII IN 2youtu.be Mark Calhoun, PhD, Military Historian at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, explains about Operation COBRA, an arduous offense tha...
Operation Clipper: The Fight for Geilenkirchen | The National WWII Museum | New Orleanswww.nationalww2museum.org Operation Clipper, an offensive to reduce the Geilenkirchen salient in Germany, highlighted the value of specialized tanks in a combined US-British operation.
Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair | WWII IN 2youtu.be Mark Calhoun, PhD, Military Historian at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, spells out the life and accomplishments Lieutenant Gen...
XIX Corps Breaks Through the Siegfried Line | The National WWII Museum | New Orleanswww.nationalww2museum.org In a lesser-known operation that presaged the horrors of the deadly Battle of Hürtgen Forest, the XIX Corps broke through the Siegfried Line south of Aachen, Germany, in October 1944.
General William H. Simpson’s Ninth US Army and the Liberation of Brest | The National WWII Museum ...www.nationalww2museum.org Historians have debated the logic of fighting to liberate Brest, with some arguing that it would have made more sense to simply bypass the city and isolate the garrison.