Latest Posts
Long Odds At the Battle of Jonesborough
By Robert L. DurhamAt the Battle of Jonsborough, Union General William T. Sherman hoped to destroy the Army of Tennessee and seize Atlanta, Georgia. Read more
Latest Posts
Latest Posts
Heroic Warsaw Airlift
By Patrick J. ChaissonWarsaw was burning. Captain Jack Van Eyssen first saw it as a dull glow on the night horizon, 35 miles distant. Read more
Latest Posts
Junkers Ju-87 Stuka: What Made the Luftwaffe Vulture so Fearsome
By Michael D. HullOne of the deadliest and most effective airplanes of the Axis powers, the Junkers Ju-87 Stuka, owed its origin to a fearless World War I ace and, ironically, to innovative American aviation visionaries in the peaceful early 1930s. Read more
Latest Posts
The Battle of Varna: “Let Us Fight with Bravery”
By Alexander ZakrzewskiDuring the mid-14th century, a new theater of the crusades erupted, this time on the doorstep of Christian Europe. Read more
Latest Posts
Review: F-86 vs. MiG-15
By Christopher MiskimonThe F-86 Sabre was the iconic American fighter of the Korean War era. The struggle was the first war that pitted jet fighter aircraft against each other. Read more
Latest Posts
Battle of Berlin Prelude: Küstrin, and Death on the Oder
By Pat McTaggart“We felt that we were already dead men,” wrote former Captain Albrecht Wüstenhagen in a May 1988 letter to the author of his time in the fortress garrison of Küstrin. Read more
Latest Posts
Midway Air Hero Remembered
The carriers weren’t there.
Lieutenant Commander Wade McClusky looked out over the Pacific Ocean from the cockpit of his Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber and saw nothing. Read more
Latest Posts
A Classic Game Returns in Commandos 2 HD Remaster
By Joseph LusterFans who have been into real-time strategy games for a while likely recall Commandos 2: Men of Courage, which first touched down on PC back in 2001, followed by PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2002 and Mac OS X in 2005. Read more
Latest Posts
The T-34 Tank: The Story of Soviet Russia’s Rugged Armored Vehicle
By Phil ZimmerDecember 1941 was a dark month and the end of a dark year for the Soviets as the Germans pressed ever onward toward Moscow, the lair where Joseph Stalin and his minions plotted what to do next against the Nazi juggernaut that had, in a few short months, rolled over everything before them. Read more
Latest Posts
Clawed by the Austrian Eagle at the Battle of Custoza
By Robert HeegeIt was June 24, 1866, late in the afternoon of a northern Italian summer, and Venice, the jewel of the Adriatic, was bleeding again. Read more
Latest Posts
A Tale of Two German Snipers on WWII’s Eastern Front
By Phil ZimmerThe three Soviet T-34 tanks edged forward slowly as the drivers scanned for the concealed Germans that lay ahead. Read more
Latest Posts
The Battle of Carentan: “You’re Gonna Die Here!”
By Kevin M. Hymel“Move out!” shouted Lieutenant Richard “Dick” Winters to the men of Easy Company. It was 6 o’clock on the morning of June 12, 1944, and Easy Company’s paratroopers braced themselves to attack the southern section of Carentan. Read more
Latest Posts
The Soviet Invasion of Manchuria led to Japan’s Greatest Defeat
By Nathan N. Prefer
To the Soviet military, it is known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. Although it had no official name to the Japanese, it has become known in the West as Operation August Storm. Read more
Latest Posts
Pearl Harbor Attack Cover-up
By Susan ZimmermanBACKSTORY: Although for the past 75 years history has had little to say about “Bally’s Project,” an effort to falsify State Department records to remove evidence of gross miscalculations prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor—the author recently discovered a small file of documents in the Frank A. Read more
Latest Posts
The U.S. Navy’s Seabees: Bulldozing a Road to Victory
By Glenn Barnett
As war clouds gathered over the vast Pacific Ocean in the late 1930s, the United States belatedly began to think of protecting the nation’s possessions of far-flung islands and atolls. Read more
Latest Posts
Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans
By Don Hollway
In November 1455 a most extraordinary ecclesiastical court convened in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris at the behest of the French Inquisition. Read more
Latest Posts
Fighting Across Europe with the 101st Airborne
By Connie Kennedy“Oui.” It was one of the few words 101st Airborne paratrooper Norwood Thomas knew in French, and it served him well on the morning of June 6, 1944. Read more
Latest Posts
Stalling Hitler’s Panzers at Mortain
By Kevin M. HymelA column of German Mark V Panther tanks advanced through a thick fog north of the French town of Mortain, blindly firing their machine guns. Read more
Latest Posts
The Liberation of Nordhausen Concentration Camp
By Steve OssadAfter leading his U.S. 3rd Armored “Spearhead” Division on the longest, one-day, enemy-opposed mechanized advance in American history, Maj. Read more
Latest Posts
USS Nevada’s Run to the Sea
By Joseph M. HorodyskiDuring the dark daysof December 1941, when it seemed as if American and British bases were falling like dominoes across the Pacific, two incidents during the Japanese attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor gave American morale a much needed boost. Read more
