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The Execution of Eddie Slovik
By Michael E. HaskewA single prisoner was bound and blindfolded in the courtyard of a French country house near the village of Ste-Marie-aux-Mines at 10:04 a.m. Read more
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Major General John Shirley Wood
By Kelly BellWhen little John Shirley Wood was delivered on January 11, 1888, in Monticello, Arkansas, one of the Free World’s greatest defenders greeted his first dawn as eagerly as everything else he confronted and overcame in a lifetime of soldiering. Read more
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Dunkirk: Debacle in the West
by Matt BroggieTanks—seven divisions of them concentrated at one point, the weakest position in the Western defenses—that was what did it.” Read more
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Bold Gamble at Vicksburg
By Eric NiderostThe citizens of Vicksburg would scarcely remember a more beautiful evening. The sky on April 16, 1863, was cloudless, and as the ruddy glow of twilight faded, the vast expanse was speckled with stars. Read more
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The Longest Struggle
By Michael D. HullFor the duration of World War II, from the evening of Sunday, September 3, 1939, to the evening of Monday, May 7, 1945, the Battle of the Atlantic never ceased. Read more
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Roosevelt’s Crowded Hour
By John WukovitsBy mid-June 1898, a potent American military conglomeration had assembled off the extreme southeastern coast of Cuba. Thirty-two troop transports brought 819 officers and 15,058 enlisted men to Cuba from Florida, along with 89 newspaper correspondents, 11 foreign military observers, and 10 million pounds of rations. Read more
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The Supermarine Spitfire
By William F. Floyd Jr.On April 21, 1942, in action over Malta, Flight Lieutenant Denis Barnham of No. 601 Squadron was given credit for downing a German Junkers Ju-88 bomber and a Messerschmitt Bf-109 fighter. Read more
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British Aviation Militaria
By Kevin MahoneyAviation militaria has always been popular with collectors, representing a fascinating aspect of 20th-century warfare. Among the more interesting items in this realm are the medals and flight log books from the airmen of the British Royal Air Force and Commonwealth Air Forces of World War II. Read more
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D-Day Battle for Easy Red & Fox Green Beaches
By Flint Whitlock
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Disaster at Fort Donelson
By Mike PhiferA signal rocket set off by Confederate pickets streaked skyward in the damp early morning of February 4, 1862. Read more
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SEALs: the Birth of the Navy’s ‘Special Warfare’ Force
By Bud HylandToday’s Navy SEALs (for Sea, Air, and Land special warfare experts) have a history shrouded in secrecy. Commissioned in 1962, they are the most elite shore-area Special Forces in the world, concentrating on very select and often-clandestine intelligence gathering and precision strike missions. Read more
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Immortal Charge of the Light Brigade
By Christopher MiskimonSix battalions of Russian infantry, 30 cannons, and a cavalry force deployed in the North Valley east of Sevastopol near the town of Balaclava. Read more
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A Good Samaritan
By Jon DiamondThe iconic photograph the Blinded Soldier, New Guinea taken on Christmas Day 1942, reveals a wounded and barefoot Australian soldier, Private George “Dick” Whittington of the 2/10th Battalion, being led down a path through a surrounding field of tall kunai grass to an Allied field hospital at Dobodura in Papua, the eastern third of the world’s second largest island, New Guinea. Read more
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Katana Handguards
By Peter SuciuThe swords of the samurai have long been desirable to collectors. Now, even their parts have become prized. Read more
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From the Luftwaffe: Joachim Benz on the Eastern Front
By Joachim Benz, as told to Peter D. Fyfe and Ward CarrFollowing service as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery during the early 1970s, Ward Carr decided to remain in Germany, residing in Frankfurt. Read more
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Lee’s Hard Fighter
By William E. WelshTwo men rode forward from Sharpsburg, Maryland, on the morning of September 17, 1862. The one in front was of slight build with a scraggly beard, scrawny neck, sunken cheeks, and a high forehead. Read more
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A Son’s Memoir: Surviving The CBI’s ‘Aluminum Trail’
By Fred T. MartinWinston Churchill called it, “An immense laborious task, unlikely to be completed until the need for it has passed.” Read more
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Teutoburgerwald Avenged
By Michael D. GreaneyArminius, war leader of the Cherusci, a powerful German tribe on the east bank of the Rhine, was livid. Read more
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The P38 Can Opener: WWII’s “Other” P-38
By Richard A. BerantyFar down on the list of important inventions essential to victory in World War II is a modest gadget built of stamped metal called the GI Pocket Can Opener—commonly known as the P-38 can opener—which was used by American troops in the field to sever the lids off combat rations. Read more
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An Acre of Massacre: The Second Boer War’s Battle of Spion Kop
By Herman T. VoelknerThe century of conflict that would introduce the concept of total war to the world had its bloody roots on an obscure hilltop in the remote South African veldt. Read more
