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The First Punic War’s Mortal Enemies: The Romans Versus Carthage

By Ludwig H. Dyck

The huge gangplank dangled in the air, suspended by a rope and pulley from a massive pole standing upright in the bow of the Roman galley. Read more

The Incongruity Between Conviction and Subsequent Celebration

In January 1952, a 39-year-old man was arrested in Manchester, England on a charge of “gross indecency” as specified under Section 11 of Britain’s Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885. Read more

A Controversial Cancelled Shooter Rears Its Head in 2021

By Joseph Luster

Based on true stories from the Second Battle for Fallujah in 2004, Six Days in Fallujah was originally announced back in 2009 but was eventually cancelled. Read more

USS Sealion: the Only American Submarine to Sink an Enemy Battleship

By Chace V. Howland

“Thornton! Go let the captain know he’s needed in the conning tower.” Nineteen-year-old Quartermaster Third Class Ed Thornton from Three Notch, Alabama, scurried to the conning tower hatch and slid down the ladder into the control room. Read more

April World War II Games

By Joseph Luster

Depending on what kind of setup you have, virtual reality may be old news to you, or it might still be fresh and awe-inspiring. Read more

Uniform: Hitler Jugend SS Panzergrenadier

The Hitler Jugend SS Panzergrenadier and the Uniform of the Hitler Youth

By Johnny Shumate The paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party known as the Sturmabteilung established the Hitler Jugend in 1926 for the purpose of indoctrinating German youth into Nazi ideology. Read more

Alvin York became the most famous of a group of U.S. doughboys who went into harm’s way to thwart a German attack on October 9, 1918.

By Christopher Miskimon

On October 8, 1918, soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 328th Infantry Regiment arrived at Hill 223 and started dying. Read more

Hitler confers with his subordinates Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel (left) and Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch (center) as the three contemplate a military map on the table before them. As Operation Barbarossa progressed, Hitler sacked Brauchitsch and took personal command of all German forces on the Eastern Front. TOP: The burned-out hulks of Soviet T-26 light tanks destroyed during early fighting against the invading Nazis lie derelict on the battlefield.

Auction of Hitler Notes Sparks Controversy

A recent auction of handwritten speech notes scrawled by none other than Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, aroused the ire of Jewish groups, which find the commercial activity reprehensible since the Nazi regime was responsible for the deaths of more than six million Jews during the 12 years of the Third Reich. Read more

Meade’s Impressive Performance at Fredericksburg Earned Him Army Command

George Gordon Meade did not want command of the Army of the Potomac when it was thrust upon him on the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg seven months after the Union defeat at Fredericksburg, but he had the distinction of being the division commander who had led the successful Union assault during the bloody battle in December 1862 on the south side of the Rappahannock River. Read more

4th Infantry Division: The “Easy” Victory at Utah Beach

By Mason B. Webb

In the weeks leading up to the still-undefined D-Day, commanders argued about every detail of Operation Overlord. Read more

A Canadian-Born Panzer Gunner

By Christopher Miskimon

Bruno Friesen looked through the sight of his Panzer IV’s 75mm cannon at an approaching column of enemy tanks. Read more

Old Fort Erie: the Defiant Stand During the War of 1812

By Mike Phifer

The crash of musketry in the early hours of August 15, 1814, quickly caught the attention of Captain Nathan Towson. Read more

By necessity, General Edmund Kirby Smith ruled the isolated Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy as a semi-independent fiefdom.

Edmund Kirby Smith: Rebel Lord of the Trans-Mississippi Theater

By David A. Norris

Recently detached from the Army of Tennessee, the Arkansas troops of Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Churchill’s division had not yet met their new commander when the division came under fire at Richmond, Kentucky, on August 30, 1862. Read more

When Peace Came in a Flash—75 Years Ago

A few short months ago, the world paused to reflect on the 75th anniversary of the end of the greatest human-caused cataclysm mankind has ever known: World War II. Read more

Flight Nurse Madeline “Del” D’Eletto shares her stories of medical evacuation flights from the battlefields of continental Europe.

Madeline “Del” D’Eletto: an Allied Angel of Mercy on a C-47

By Kevin M. Hymel

In a field hospital in Normandy, France, 1st Lt. Madeline “Del” D’Eletto was watching an Army doctor operate on a soldier’s head injury when one of her fellow nurses asked, “What do I do with this?” Read more

Joachim Peiper’s Bloody Blitz Through Belgium

By Kevin H. Hymel

As the Belgian town of La Gleize burned to the ground around him, 29-year-old SS Lt. Col. Read more

Teddy Roosevelt Junior: Steadying the Troops at Utah Beach

By Mason B. Webb

Teddy Roosevelt Junior had enjoyed a distinguished career even before D-Day. He had commanded a battalion in France during the Great War, served as secretary of the Navy from 1921 to 1924, been the governor of Puerto Rico from 1929 to 1932, and been governor-general of the Philippines for a year in the early 1930s. Read more