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Nazi U-Boats: Rattlesnakes of the Deep
By Herb KugelAmerica was not at war, but American sailors were dying when American-owned ships were torpedoed by German submarines. Read more
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The Generals’ Battle: British War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha
By Jon DiamondLord John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France in 1940, and his chief of staff, General Henry Pownall, have both been forever associated with the British Army’s greatest continental defeat; namely, the retreat through Flanders and eventual evacuation from the harbor and beaches of Dunkirk in May and June, after being engaged with the invading German Wehrmacht for only three weeks. Read more
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Subhas Chandra Bose: Champion of Indian Nationalism
By Blaine TaylorWhen British diplomat Lord Halifax arrived at the Berghof in the Bavarian Alps on November 19, 1937, he mistook German Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler for a footman and was about to hand him his coat and hat when Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath hissed, “The Führer! Read more
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Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa)’s Triumph
By Blaine TaylorIt was fated to be the last wartime conference of the Big Three Allies of World War II, but it was the first not attended by the late American President Franklin D. Read more
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The German Cruiser Königsberg
By Michael E. HaskewWhen the German invasion of Norway was set in motion on April 9, 1940, much of the planning for the event had been done on a shoestring. Read more
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OSS Bugatti: Fighting Alongside the Maquis
By John ManciniThe tempo of war planning intensified for the invasion of Europe during the early months of 1944. Finally, at daylight on June 6, 1944, Allied infantry stormed ashore along the German-held Normandy coast. Read more
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Action off Santa Cruz: Last Stand of the USS Hornet
By David Alan JohnsonDuring the early morning hours of October 26, 1942, several hours before the sun came up, Admiral William F. Read more
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Assault on Oslo: The Naval Disaster in the Drøbak Strait
By Henrick O. LundeThe second week in April 1940 was a stormy period in the North and Norwegian Seas. The weather deteriorated during April 7, with low cloud cover and fog. Read more
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Iron Annie: The Junkers Ju-52
By William E. WelshShortly before dawn on May 20, 1941, a flight of 500 transport planes took off from seven airstrips on mainland Greece. Read more
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Segregation in the U.S. Military: Ruben Rivers
By Michael HaskewOn July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman issued Executive Order No. 9981, which stated in part, “It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.” Read more
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The U.S. Navy in World War II: Problems with Torpedoes
by David Alan JohnsonAny American submarine that had made contact with a Japanese task force a year or two earlier would almost certainly not have had the success that Darter and Dace had with Admiral Kurita’s task force. Read more
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Darter & Dace at the Battle of Leyte Gulf
By David Alan JohnsonAs soon as he arrived on the bridge of the submarine USS Dace, Lt. Cmdr. Rafael C. Read more
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Merrill’s Maurauders: Into Myitkyina
by Al HemingwayWhy, with the Marauders riddled with disease and fatigue, were they given the mission to attack Myitkyina? Stilwell and Merrill had to be aware that the unit was decimated. Read more
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How do you solve a problem like Hitler’s birthplace?
It’s a plain, old, pale yellow, three-story building in a small town (fewer than 20,000 inhabitants) north of Salzburg, Austria. Yet this architecturally unremarkable building stands in the center of a recent political firestorm. Read more
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Georgy Zhukov and Russia’s ‘Great Patriotic War’
By Michael E. HaskewThe Great Patriotic War, as World War II came to be known in the Soviet Union, provided the stage upon which Marshal Georgy Zhukov achieved lasting fame. Read more
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“This is London…”: Edward R. Murrow in WWII
By Roy Morris Jr.On the evening of August 7, 1937, two neophyte radio broadcasters went to dinner together at the luxurious Adlon Hotel in Berlin, Germany. Read more
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Blood for Time: 9th Armored at Bastogne and the Battle of the Bulge
By Charles GutierrezIn December 1944, the Ardennes front or “ghost front” was an area where either veteran Allied units rotated in to rest and recover from terrible combat losses or where new, untested units arrived to gather some combat experience from the minor skirmishes that would occasionally flare up. Read more
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Bavarian Berchtesgaden and Its Bunkers
By L. VanLoan NaisawaldThe swinging beams of searchlights and the wail of air raid sirens had preceded the crash of the guns. Read more
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Battle for the Ore Deposits: The Red Army vs. Nazi Germany
By Pat McTaggartAt first, it was all about the ore. Magnesium, iron, and manganese ore were the lifeblood of German industry, especially the armaments industry, which used the iron and manganese to produce steel for Hitler’s war machine. Read more
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WWII Ordnance: The Marauding Marder
By William E. WelshOn the second day of Adolf Hitler’s bold invasion of Russia in June 1941, the Germans were confronted with one of their most glaring shortcomings in weapons and armament. Read more
