Breaching the Gothic Line

En route to the Italian Front the Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies battled rugged terrain, miserable weather, and determined German resistance. More »

Building the Atlantic Wall

Hitler did all in his power to create an impenetrable “Fortress Europa” and prevent an Allied invasion, but it wasn’t enough. More »

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“Where there is muck, one gets dirty,” asserted Hitler’s chief architect and arms czar, Albert Speer. More »

Early in the morning on May 6, 1864, a column of Confederates marched east as quietly as possible along the bed of an unfinished railroad

President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the bullet-proofed yacht the USS Potomac on two of the greatest diplomatic missions of WWII.

The Soviet Air Force’s Ilyushin Il-2 “Storm Bird” took a heavy toll in German armor on the Eastern Front.

The author, a rifleman in “Love” Company, 399th Infantry Regiment, 100th Infantry Division, recalls brutal winter combat on the French-German border.