21.   Military historians had shifted their focus to the social history of soldiers and the experience of the home front.

22.   Military historians say that opening Antwerp should have been given immediate top priority.

23.   Military historians will treasure side trips to Vicksburg and Shiloh in Mississippi and to Franklin, Tenn.

24.   Military historians and many veterans say the phenomenon, known as medal inflation, has lessened the value of all decorations.

25.   Military historians say that next to Pearl Harbor, it is the worst American intelligence breakdown of the war.

26.   Military historians say the odds were stacked against African-American troops during World War II from the onset.

27.   Navy officials and military historians are divided on the question of whether he was entitled to wear the decorations.

28.   Of this group, only Reardon is a military historian.

29.   Norman Friedman, an independent Navy expert and military historian in New York, said intelligence officials often have great difficulty even discerning a structure to attempt to penetrate.

30.   Scottsdale internal medicine physician Carolyn Gerster, M.D., and Tucson retired Army officer and military historian John Westover, PhD., carry the argument today.