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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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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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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
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Crossing the Rhine at Remagen
by Michael HaskewNine months after they splashed ashore on the beaches of Normandy, Allied troops stood along the west bank of the great Rhine River, the last natural barrier between them and the expanse of the Third Reich. Read more
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King Boris III of Bulgaria
By Blaine TaylorIt was the high summer of 1943 in Eastern Europe, and World War II was going decidedly against the Third Reich, which had just suffered massive twin defeats on the Russian Front at the Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, which many historians now believe turned the tide of war irrevocably against Nazi Germany. Read more
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“Tripoli Will Be Italian”: Italy’s Colonial Conquests in Libya
By Raymond E. BellThe Italian sailors sang “Tripoli Will Be Italian” at the rumble of the cannon as ships of the Italian naval squadron left port and sailed south to the shores of North Africa in late September 1911. Read more
