Smashing Hitler’s Atlantic Wall

•November 11, 2017 • Be the First to Comment

Nazi Germany spent many years (and a fortune) creating an invasion-proof barrier, only to have it breached in the span of a morning. More »

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 »

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

•February 15, 2017 • Be the First to Comment

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

•November 4, 2016 • 1 Comment

The Red Army’s T-34 battle tank helped upset Hitler’s designs for conquest on the Eastern Front. More »

Seventy years later, should the “Desert Fox” be considered an anti-Nazi hero or a faithful soldier turned opportunist?

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.