The National Museum of the Marine Corps

Twenty miles outside Washington, D.C., at Quantico, Virginia, motorists traveling on Interstate 95 will come upon an unusual building that is clearly visible, day or night. Read more

Stonewall Jackson & Nathaniel Banks at Cedar Mountain

Following the completion of Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s unsuccessful Peninsula campaign earlier in the month, General Robert E. Read more

Cauldron of Death: the Demyansk Salient and the Eastern Front

On the vast Eastern Front, the Demyansk salient represented little more than a smudge on the battle map. Read more

Streets Sewn with Bodies: Wellington at Fuentes de Onoro

It had been a brutal winter for the French Army of Portugal. War and hunger had haunted the occupiers, causing their number to dwindle by the thousands. Read more

The Bombing of Berlin by Doolittle’s Eighth Air Force

He was widely regarded as America’s best pilot, he was already a recipient of the Medal of Honor, he was commander of the Eighth Air Force caught up in 1,000-plane bombing missions deep into the Third Reich, and he was mad as hell. Read more

The History of the Sword

Perhaps no other weapon in human history has lent itself so well to so many combat adaptations as the sword. Read more

Surviving France’s Shame: French General Maxime Weygand in WWII

“What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over,” intoned British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. “The Battle of Britain is about to begin.” Read more

Desperate Days On Hill 314

When the 230th Field Artillery Battalion was attached to the 30th Infantry (“Old Hickory”) Division in Mortain, France, on August 6, 1944, many of its men had already received their baptism of fire in Normandy. Read more

No Glory at The Battle of Glorieta Pass

In June 1861, two months after Confederate artillery fired on Fort Sumter to begin the Civil War, 44-year-old, Louisiana-born Henry H. Read more

The Nevada and I Survived the War

I am of Polish, Irish, and American Indian descent and grew up in the small (population 3,800) northern Illinois town of Geneva. Read more

The Redoubts At Yorktown

At nightfall on October 14, 1781, 150 British and Hessian soldiers sheltered in two small earthen fortifications at Yorktown, Virginia. Read more

Profiles: ROTC Success

More than 16 million Americans served in the U.S. military during World War II, but as fluid as the situation was in the Pacific, and considering the priority given to the European Theater, it is difficult to obtain an accurate count of how many served in the Pacific at any one time during World War II. Read more

Civil War Generals: Albert Sidney Johnston

Confederate President Jefferson Davis considered his old West Point classmate Albert Sidney Johnston “the greatest soldier, the ablest man, civil or military, Confederate or Union, then living,” and it is safe to say that no other general in either army began the Civil War with a more glittering—or fleeting—reputation. Read more

History Under Fire: The New Battle Over Pointe du Hoc

On June 2, 2019, just days ahead of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the June 6, 1944, Allied landings on the northern coast of France, the Washington Post published an article written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Scott Higham, which asked these questions: Was the attack on the German coastal battery atop Pointe du Hoc—“one of D-Day’s most famous, heroic assaults”—necessary? Read more

For Your Tomorrow

The Japanese order read, “The offensive will start in Blitzkrieg style early in March … 31st Division will attack and occupy Kohima with its main force to hinder the reinforcement of the British-Indian Army.” Read more

Military Air Power

By 1945, refinements in technology and military doctrine had resulted in the acknowledgment that control of the air was critical to successful operations on land or sea. Read more

Tuskegee Airman Charles B. Hall

The target of the B-25 Mitchell bombers was the Castelvetrano airfield on Sicily. It was July 2, 1943; the amphibious invasion of the island by the Anglo-American 15th Army Group was seven days away. Read more

Wings of Mercy

Women’s contributions on the World War II home front are commonly portrayed in two ways: planting victory gardens, knitting blankets and rolling bandages—or working in a factory welding as “Rosie the Riveter.” Read more

Seven World War II Book Reviews for Winter 2027

Countdown Battle Of The Bulge: The 40 Days of World War II That Crushed Hitler’s Last Hope (Chris Wallace and Mitch Weiss, Dutton, New York, NY, 384 pp. Read more

The Battle of Tupelo, June – July 1864

By Edward Holub and John Marchetti

“For God’s sake, if Mr. Forrest will let me alone, I will let him alone. Read more