To Casablanca By Air
By Eric NiderostOn the afternoon of January 7, 1943, Boeing 314s Dixie Clipper and Atlantic Clipper took off from the Marine Air Terminal, La Guardia Airport in New York, their destination Miami. Read more
Pershing’s Hammer: The Meuse–Argonne Offensive
By William StroockAt 0100 hours on September 12, 1918, German positions in the St. Mihiel salient on the Western Front were lit up by a massive artillery barrage. Read more
The Decline of Stephen Douglas and the American Whig Party
By Roy Morris Jr.It was unseasonably warm in Charleston when the Democratic National Convention opened for business at noon on April 23, 1860. Read more
Brutal Battle for a Normandy Hill
By Mark Simmons“At Tarnopol we endured heavy Russian fire but in Normandy we were hit again and again, day after day by British artillery that was so heavy the Frundsberg [10th SS Panzer Division “Frundsberg,” named after 16th-century German knight and general Georg Von Frundsberg] bled to death before our eyes. Read more
The 1650 Battle of Dunbar: Thunder on the Broxburn
By Don HollwayIn July 1637 few Scots or English would have guessed the result when Edinburgh minister James Hannay preached from the Book of Common Prayer, and street merchant Jenny Geddes threw her footstool at his head. Read more
The German and Austrian Jews of the Allied Armies
By Steven Karras Prologue:Once they escaped from Nazi-dominated Europe, hundreds of German and Austrian Jews joined the American and British military to help bring an end to the Nazis’ reign of terror. Read more
1st Infantry Division Museum
By Steve HawkinsOne of America’s finest military museums, the 1st Division Museum near Chicago, presents the history of America’s oldest division––from its inception in World War I, through World War II, the Cold War, the jungles of Vietnam, and Desert Storm. Read more
From 747 to B-17: An Interview With Airline Pilot Robert Trammell
By William CaverleeDelta Air Lines and former Northwest pilot Robert Trammell, 45, has made numerous 747 flights on Asian routes across the Pacific. Read more
The Rise of Ike: Supreme Allied Commander in the Making
By Eric HammelDwight David Eisenhower began life as David Dwight Eisenhower in Abilene, Kansas, on October 14, 1890, the third of five sons. Read more
Race to the Meuse
By William E. WelshThe American airborne troops shivered in their foxholes as temperatures plummeted on Christmas Eve 1944. Behind them to the east lay the beleaguered town of Bastogne. Read more
Villers-Bocage: Wittmann’s Tigers, the Desert Rats, and Allied Disaster
By Major General Michael ReynoldsBritish General Sir Bernard Montgomery was given command of two Allied armies for the invasion of Normandy: Lt. Read more
USS Hugh W. Hadley: Surviving the Kamikazes of Okinawa
By Michael E. HaskewOnly 340 miles from the home island of Kyushu, the final objective of the American military surge across the Pacific during World War II, short of an invasion of Japan itself, was Okinawa in the Ryukyu archipelago. Read more
With the “Ragtag Circus” Across Europe: The Story of Frank Fauver
By Susan ZimmermanThe 83rd U.S. Infantry Division had been mobilized for World War I in September 1917. Its unit patch was a downward-pointing black triangle with the letters O-H-I-O stitched as an abstract gold monogram in the center. Read more
New Mexico: Atomic Spy Capital
By Richard HigginsNew Mexico and its capital of Santa Fe bring to mind some beautiful images. Stunning sunsets, unlimited vistas, a plethora of art galleries, the spectacular food enlivened with the local green chile, an ancient Native American culture that still thrives, and a Spanish heritage tradition going back to within 50 years of Columbus’s arrival all make for a unique cultural and physical environment. Read more
Takeo Yoshikawa and the Spies Behind the Pearl Harbor Attack
By Phil Zimmer“You are probably the nearest to war that you’ll ever be without actually being in it,” said Commander Harold M. Read more
“I Survived the USS Franklin Inferno”
By George F. Black, as told to Howard DunbarOn March 19, 1945, the Essex-class carrier USS Franklin (CV-13), dubbed “Big Ben,” lay 50 miles off Honshu, one of Japan’s Home Islands. Read more
SCR-300 WW2 Radio Backpack: The “Walkie Talkie” That Shaped the War
By John NieselEarly in 1945, in the Northern Appenine mountains of Italy, T/5 Harvey, a radioman with the 10th Mountain Division, is carrying his WW2 radio backpack, the ever-handy SCR-300, into combat for the first time. Read more
Bridge House Hotel: Crimes of the Kempeitai in Shanghai
By Eric NiderostBy the 1930s, Shanghai was already a legend in its own time––the most modern, populous, and decadent city in China. Read more
Bushrod Johnson: Yankee Quaker, Confederate General
By Roy Morris Jr.Of all the unlikely heroes of the Civil War, none was more unlikely than Bushrod Johnson, Ohio-born Quaker turned Confederate general. Read more
Battle of the Bulge Tank Duel On Christmas Eve
By Christopher MiskimonThe Battle of the Bulge is famously known as the largest battle fought by the U.S. Army in World War II. Read more
