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Swift Invasion of Denmark
By John W. Osborn, Jr.On the night of April 8, 1940, almost four million people went to bed at peace in the midst of a world war. Read more
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The Great Viking Siege of Paris
By Victor KamenirWell before the great Viking siege of Paris, more than 300 islands dotted the length of the Seine River, reduced over the centuries by human impact and natural changes to slightly more than 100. Read more
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Nazi Stuka Ace Hans Rudel
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckIn the village of Seiferdau, Southern Prussia, an eight-year-old boy with an umbrella jumped out of a second-story window. Read more
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The Essential Role of Navy PBR Boats in the Vietnam War
By William F. Floyd Jr.The U.S. Navy deployed a variety of small boats to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, but perhaps the best known of these is the river patrol boat. Read more
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How Winston Churchill Prolonged the Defense of Antwerp in World War I
By Eric NiderostJoseph Mary Nagle Jefferies, a correspondent for Britain’s Daily Mail, was assigned to cover the opening phases of World War I in Belgium in October 1914. Read more
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Peach Orchard Bloodbath: Day 2 of the Battle of Gettysburg
By Mike Phifer
On July 2, the day of the Battle of Gettysburg’s Peach Orchard conflict, Army of the Potomac commander Maj. Read more
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Operation Market Garden: The American Airborne’s Audacious Role
By Michael E. HaskewWith his troops in a bitter fight with German forces in northern France in the late summer of 1944, General Omar Bradley, commander of the Allied 12th Army Group, could not believe his ears. Read more
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Hitler’s Bold Attack at Mortain
By David H. LippmanFor once, the ULTRA message came late. Normally, the decoding machines and hard-working British cryptographers at Bletchley Park had an abundance of German Army messages to go through, but in the first days in August 1944, the German panzer divisions had gone to radio silence, which suggested they were going to attack, but not in which direction. Read more
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General Jonathan M. Wainwright survived the privations of captivity at the hands of the Japanese.
Amid the great assembly of senior Allied officers who stood by while the representatives of the Japanese government and those of the victors of World War II in the Pacific signed the instrument of surrender aboard the battleship USS Missouri on September 2, 1945, in Tokyo Bay, two of the most unlikely attendees waited solemnly to step forward. Read more
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Colonel William O. Darby and the U.S. Army Rangers
By William E. WelshOn the morning of Friday, February 18, 1944, fresh groups of German panzergrenadiers backed by tanks swept south from their defensive positions at Anzio and overran American forward positions at Aprilia, eight miles north of the landing beaches. Read more
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First Battle of the Naktong Bulge
By Robert L. Durham
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Marine Sergeant Mitchell Paige: Valor on Guadalcanal
By William E. WelshAs the 33 men of his machine-gun platoon set up their four s along the ridge facing south toward a jungle-shrouded ravine on Guadalcanal where the Japanese were massing for an attack on the evening of October 25, 1942, Marine Sergeant Mitchell Paige crawled in front of their position and rigged a makeshift trip wire designed to alert his troops should Japanese forces approach their line. Read more
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Hitler’s Waffen-SS and the Last Battle in Berlin
By Christopher MiskimonIn the predawn hours of April 24, 1945, SS-Brigadeführer Gustav Krukenberg received orders from Army Group Vistula defending Berlin to immediately lead the remnants of the 57th Battalion of the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne from its staging area at the SS training camp at Neustrelitz to the German capital. Read more
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Medal of Honor Reflects America’s Diverse Ethnic Heritage
We tell the story of how Sergeant Roger Donlon earned the Congressional Medal of Honor in this issue. He was the first participant in the Vietnam War to receive the medal. Read more
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World War I Comes to Life in a Virtual-reality Experience Narrated by Historian and Podcaster Dan Carlin
By Joseph LusterSometimes, a game comes along that can’t quite be categorized in the same way as all the others. Read more
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Former Marine John “Chick” Donohue went to South Vietnam in 1968 not to fight, but to take messages of support to his friends, as well as to bring them beer.
By Christopher MiskimonJohn “Chick” Donohue stood in the chaos of the American embassy in Saigon in early 1968 as the Tet Offensive raged around it. Read more
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Sinking Japanese Submarine I-1
By Bruce PettyGordon Bridson was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1909, but shortly thereafter his family moved to Auckland, where he attended Auckland Grammar School. Read more
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Bloody Ambush on the Bozeman Trail
By David A. NorrisThe U.S. cavalrymen posted at Fort Laramie in the Dakota Territory on Christmas Day 1866 celebrated the holiday with a full dress garrison ball despite subzero temperatures and more than a foot of snow on the ground. Read more
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The Fight for Bougainville
By Michael E. HaskewThe bloody fight for Guadalcanal, where the string of Japanese conquests in the Pacific had finally run its course, was a turning point of World War II. Read more
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D-Day Assault on Juno Beach
By Nathan N. PreferMost students of World War II know that there were five invasion beaches included in Operation Overlord, the invasion of northwestern Europe, on June 6, 1944. Read more
