General Frederick Funston

Looking at a 1917 newspaper photo of Frederick Funston, barely 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing just a biscuit over a hundred pounds, today’s reader would wonder whatever made U.S. Read more

Meat Grinder at Yelnya

The smell of victory was in the air as the forces of Field Marshal Fedor von Bock’s Army Group Center continued to drive deep into the Ukraine during the final week of June 1941. Read more

Game Changer: The B29

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a game changer. First rolling off the assembly line as a production aircraft in July 1943, the Superfortress was the answer to America’s need for a high-level long-range strategic bomber. Read more

Phillips Payson O’Brien’s ‘The Strategists’

Adolf Hitler served in a Bavarian regiment on the Western Front during nearly all of World War I. Read more

James and David Hornfischers’ ‘Destroyer Captain’

Lieutenant Commander Ernest E. Evans arrived at his new command, USS Johnston (DD-557) at the Seattle-Tacoma shipyard. The ship had yet to be completed; workers were still welding and riveting. Read more

Larry J. Hughes’ ‘Rings of Fire’

The Polaroid Optical Ring Sight greatly increased the accuracy of gunners. It is little known that the creation of this sighting system was the result of a combined effort of a disparate group of Americans, including optics experts, miners, moonshiners, Soldiers, Marines, and even an artist. Read more

Stephen R. Taaffe’s ‘U.S. Army Divisions of the Pacific War’

The Marine Corps fielded 484,000 troops in the Pacific during the war; the US Army contributed 1.77 million. Read more

Martin King’s ‘The Eagles of Bastogne’

On the morning of December 19, 1944, artillery began to fall on the men of the 482nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion. Read more

Walter Boston Stitt’s ‘Surviving Three Shermans’

On September 19, 1944, Walter Stitt, serving as a loader in an M4 Sherman, lost his first tank. Read more

Stephen M. Rusiecki’s ‘Invasion On!’

From the time the invasion fleet arrived off the Normandy coast and the first pathfinders parachuted out of their aircraft inland, the press was formulating a narrative of the event which would inform the American view of the event up to the current day. Read more

Military Miniatures

In the 1950s a small group of French artists in Paris took toy soldiers and began converting them into what we now know as military miniatures. Read more

A Scout in Patton’s Third Army

The Messerschmitt Bf-109 fighter plane dove out of the sky with machine guns firing. The pilot’s target—a pontoon bridge being stretched across Germany’s Werra River by American engineers. Read more

High-Spirited Stupidity

Paratrooper Lt. Col. Bill Yarborough was flying into hell. As he prepared to jump from a Douglas C-47 transport plane then approaching the coast of Sicily, hundreds of American antiaircraft gunners below started shooting at him. Read more

Don Holloway’s ‘At the Gates of Rome’

Alaric the Goth spent years fighting the Roman Army under their Gen. Flavius Stilicho, then served as a Roman officer, leading a Visigoth army which helped defeat Roman foes. Read more

Battle of Amiens: Putting the Allies on the Road to Victory

At the start of the Battle of Amiens, Sergeant Paul Maze was in a forward observation post not a thousand yards from the front, peering into the darkness for any signs of enemy activity. Read more

Maj. Jim Rotramel’s ‘Operation El Dorado Canyon’

During the 1980s, Libyan dictator Muamar Qaddafi began an undeclared war against the United States, supporting terrorist attacks and sponsoring various terror groups in the Middle East. Read more

Jack Weatherford’s ‘Emperor of the Seas’

The Mongols were always a dangerous force on land, with massive armies of horsemen employing great mobility to defeat their foes. Read more

Walter Howell’s ‘Fallen Comrade’

By Christopher Miskimon

Waller King, Joe Albritton and Homer Ainsworth grew up in the same neighborhood in Clinton, Mississippi. They knew each other at school, in church and everyday life. Read more

John P. Langellier’s ‘More Work than Glory’

Soon after the Civil War, the United States Congress authorized the formation of six regiments of African-American troops, soon reduced to four. Read more

Stephen Quick’s ‘The Dhofar War’

From 1965 to 1975, the Sultanate of Oman fought a counterinsurgency campaign against a communist backed revolt in Dhofar Province, a remote and barren area. Read more