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Americans in the Royal Air Force
by David Alan JohnsonAs they boarded the train for Montreal, the two Americans tried to look as inconspicuous as possible. Read more
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Yanks in the RAF: From Eagle Squadron to 4th Fighter Group
by David Alan JohnsonThe first of the three Eagle Squadrons was formed at Church Fenton, Yorkshire, in September 1940. The idea of forming an all-American squadron in the RAF was not a wildly popular one— with either the British or the Americans. Read more
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Battle of the Philippine Sea & The ‘Great Marianas Turkey Shoot’
By John WukovitsLieutenant Tom Bronn glanced anxiously at the fuel gauge on his Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber. He had been aloft for almost four hours, engaged in a hectic combination of trying to locate Japanese ships he knew to be in the Philippine Sea, diving down to unleash his four bombs at a carrier as dusk enveloped his aircraft, and then embarking on a desperate search for his own carrier, the USS Lexington, in the darkness. Read more
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WWII Vehicles: The Czech Panzer 38(t)
by Arnold BlumbergPoland, the Netherlands, France, the Balkans, and Russia were subjected to Germany’s blitzkrieg between 1939 and 1941. At the forefront of those assaults were tanks of Czechoslovakian design. Read more
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WWII War Correspondent Ernie Pyle
By Dr. Carl Henry MarcouxErnest Taylor Pyle was born August 3, 1900, in Dana, Indiana. He came from a farm family. Read more
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The Red Army’s Bloody Clash at Izyum
By Pat McTaggartDuring the winter of 1941, both the Red Army and the German Wehrmacht experienced a terrifying bloodletting. Adolf Hitler’s seemingly invincible armies, having advanced hundreds of miles inside the Soviet Union, were slowed by the October muddy season that had turned all but a few roads into almost impassible quagmires. Read more
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The Imperial Japanese Army’s Takasago Volunteers
by Glenn BarnettWhen Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed out of Tokyo Bay after his historic visit in 1854, he left in his wake a desire among the Japanese to emulate all things Western. Read more
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Hiro Onoda’s Surrender: Fighting World War II Until 1974
By Glenn BarnettThe Japanese empire was a fine place for young Hiro Onoda. In 1939, at age 17, he hired on with a lacquerware company that posted him to Hankow (Wuhan) in Japanese-occupied China. Read more
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The Dieppe Raid: A Tragic Dress Rehearsal
By Richard RuleBy early 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was still unable to boast a single victory in the field against Germany. Read more
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Surviving the German Death March: Hazards of the 600 Mile March
By Al HemingwayOn February 6, 1945, the 10,000 POWs of Stalag Luft IV received their marching orders to move out. Read more
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The USS Goodhue & A Torrent of Kamikazes at Okinawa
By Duane E. ShafferMore than 60 years ago, in April 1945, the war in Europe was winding down to its inevitable conclusion. Read more
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Project Underworld: The U.S. Navy’s Secret Pact with the Mafia
By Gregory PedutoIn the opening months of 1942, German U-boats pushed Allied supply lines to the breaking point. In the month of January, Axis submarines claimed over 20 Allied vessels including a tanker just 60 miles off the coast of Long Island. Read more
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Joseph Stalin’s Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov: A Soviet Survivor
By Blaine TaylorIn the summer of 1941, as the Nazi German blitzkrieg rolled over the Russian Red Army defenses at the embattled city of Leningrad, today once more St. Read more
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Michael Prestianni: Guarding the War Criminals at Nuremberg
By Roscoe C. BluntPerhaps the most feared group of accused criminals in the annals of history was a potpourri of personalities who had been associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Read more
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The WWII Bombing of Pantelleria Island: A Test of Air Power
By Robert F. McEniryOn May 13, 1943, nearly 300,000 Axis soldiers surrendered to the Allies in northern Tunisia. This successful conclusion to the North African campaign led to speculation at the time as to where the Allies would strike next. Read more
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Operation Jericho: Mosquito Raid on Amiens Prison
By Robert Barr SmithMany of the prisoners knew this night was probably their last on earth. Amiens Prison had seen a great many judicial murders and much Gestapo torture and brutality, so except for those about to die, executions were routine. Read more
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Why The Nazi Atomic Bomb Never Happened
By Jonathan F. KeilerThe most nightmarish of World War II alternative history scenarios is the one in which Nazi Germany acquires atomic weapons. Read more
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March 2017 Military Games
By Joseph LusterNow that we’re comfortably settled into the new year, it’s time to take a look at what 2017 has in store for war gaming. Read more
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Twilight of the Teutonic Order
In one of those ironies with which history abounds Polish Duke Conrad of Mazovia in 1226 invited the German Roman Catholic military order known as the Teutonic Knights to assist him in subjugating the unruly, pagan Prussians who were raiding his lands. Read more
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The Doomed Expansion of Imperial Japan
by Michael E. HaskewSince 1931, Japan’s army had asserted control over territory on the continent of Asia, brushing aside Chinese resistance, condemnation and political pressure from other nations, and most recently, the Allied military. Read more
