Orde Wingate And His Chindits Pioneered Guerrilla Warfare

Short, wiry, and with baleful blue eyes and an Old Testament beard, Maj. Gen. Orde Charles Wingate was unorthodox in thought and action. Read more

The OSS: Assisting French Resistance in the Haute Savoie Region

On a moonless night in January 1944, in the Haute Savoie region of southeast France, the drone from the engine of a RAF bomber could be heard in the distance. Read more

The HMS Illustrious & Other Armored British Carriers Left Their Mark

When one thinks of carrier warfare in World War II, the Japanese and U.S. navies usually come to mind. Read more

The Eastern Front: Germany’s Futile Battle For Crimea

On July 4, 1942, the men of newly promoted Field Marshal Erich von Manstein’s Eleventh Army celebrated the capture of the last Soviet bastion in the Crimea. Read more

Game Features: Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier—Arctic Strike

As we mentioned previously when reviewing Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, the single-player campaign is a solid way to spend your time, but it’s the multiplayer that makes or breaks just how much of that time you’ll be blasting away online. Read more

Winston Churchill And Franklin Roosevelt’s Arcadia Conference

Still stunned by the sneak Japanese onslaught on the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, American families tried to summon up their Christmas spirit in December 1941. Read more

Felice Benuzzi’s Extraordinary Climb of Mount Kenya

Felice Benuzzi’s part in the war may have been a small one, but his story is one of the oddest to come out of World War II. Read more

Allies’ Failure To Assist Jews During Holocaust Continues To Stir Debate

One of the most enduring questions emerging from World War II is the reaction of the West, and particularly the United States, to the plight of the Jews as they faced Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Read more

Sculpin and Squalus: Fated Sister Subs During The Pacific War

On September 14, 1938, fleet submarine USS Squalus (SS-192) was launched at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. Read more

Hans Baur: Hitler’s Pilot Flew Führer Across Europe and History

Adolf Hitler’s wartime Armaments Minister Albert Speer was right when he termed the Führer’s pilot from 1932 to 1945, Lt. Read more

Japanese Battleship Yamato Makes Its Final Stand

In the late afternoon of April 6, 1945, five days after American GIs and leathernecks scrambled onto an Okinawa beach a scant 500 miles from Japan, two U.S. Read more

Prince Paul Karađorđević of Yugoslavia

On June 2, 1939, the last great prewar military parade of the Third Reich came rolling past the reviewing stand under Nazi eagles with swastikas in their taloned grip in front of the Berlin Technical High School. Read more

Evans Carlson Forms Carlson’s Raiders

One of America’s earliest heroes in World War II was the tall, soft-spoken son of a Connecticut Congregational minister who distinguished himself in some of the fiercest fighting in the South Pacific. Read more

What Made the Lockheed P-38 Lightning So Special?

Due largely to their use in the postwar U.S. Army Air Forces and present proliferation among the air show community, the North American P-51 Mustang is thought of by many as the most important American fighter of World War II. Read more

Operation Archery: The British Commando Raid

They came out of the sea, out of the darkness, and they brought death, terror, and destruction with them. Read more

Ernest Hemingway’s War

When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, the nation’s most famous writer, a man who had built his reputation on gritty and intense novels about wars, soldiers, and “grace under pressure,” was nowhere to be seen—at least not on the home front. Read more

Civil War Spies: Timothy Webster

Spying is a dangerous game.

Even the best spies sometimes get caught, as Confederate raider John Yates Beall, “the Mosby of the Chesapeake,” learned the hard way in 1865, and the consequences are never pretty to contemplate. Read more

General Grant at Appomattox Court House

The battle of sailor’s creek was a debacle for the confederacy and the death knell of the Army of Northern Virginia. Read more

Hell in a Norwegian Fjord

Captain Odd Isaachsen Willoch knew what had to be done. The 55-year-old career Norwegian officer, commander of an aging coastal defense ship, was looking down the five-inch gun barrels and 21-inch torpedo tubes of the Wilhelm Heidkamp, a state-of-the-art German destroyer. Read more

Game Features: Toy Soldiers: Cold War

Toy Soldiers: Cold War may have once been a part of Xbox’s “Summer of Arcade,” but the war being waged inside this toy box is a cold one. Read more