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

The Los Banos Raid: WWII’s Finest Allied Mission?

As the nine C-47s flew closer to the drop zone, the lead plane descended to an altitude of four hundred feet. 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

Medics: Battlefield Mercy

Men of the Medical Detachment of the 2nd Battalion, 274th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division, arrived in France in December 1944, and within days found themselves in action in Alsace-Lorraine as the unit was sent to help blunt the German offensive—Operation Nordwind. Read more

Hollywood Delivers The story of the 6888th Battalion

When Hollywood’s Tyler Perry heard a story about the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the U.S. Army’s only all-female, all-Black unit of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) to go overseas in World War II, he knew he had to make a movie about it.  Read more

Operation Olive: Autumn Assault in Italy

Allied forces had been fighting their way up the Italian peninsula since landing at Salerno on September 9, 1943. 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

Allan Pinkerton

“Early in the year 1861, I was at my headquarters in the city of Chicago, attending to the manifold duties of my profession. 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