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As the Allies approached Brussels, Belgium, in early September 1944, the occupying Nazi SS decided, as a parting act of vengeance, to load up more than 1,400 members of the Resistance, Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents, and Allied airmen onto a train bound for the Neuengamme concentration camp. Read more
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After the Führer’s death by suicide on April 30, 1945, the clock was ticking for the U.S. Army’s Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) to round up the Nazi henchmen before they vanished, or worse, attempted to continue following Hitler’s twisted vision and retaliate with hidden weapons—something the fanatical Hitler Youth leader Arthur Axmann was actively planning when he was arrested in December 1945. Read more
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Berryman was inspired to collect these stories of resistance after researching the life of his grandfather Sam Mindel. Read more
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As the pilots of the U.S. Army Air Force’s 510th Fighter Squadron hit their bunks on the night of June 5, 1944, the chatter among the “Buzzards” was the usual moaning about boring missions and wondering when they would see some real action. Read more
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Scouting for the best route for his motor pool through Nuremberg, Germany, 1st Battalion, 15th Regiment Transportation officer Lt. Read more
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By Richard Danila
Infectious diseases have shaped history and often determined the fate of wars. In an article for infectious disease physicians, Drs. Read more
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With his Tiger tank, SS-Obersturmführer Michael Wittmann famously annihilated a British tank brigade at Villers-Bocage on June 13, 1944. Read more
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When the military might of the Allies began to move inexorably toward Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, told the troops that they were embarking on a “great crusade” to rid the world of the scourge of Nazi tyranny. Read more
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It was raining heavily, a deluge of almost Biblical proportions that hammered down on the exhausted men of the Union’s Army of the Tennessee. Read more
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For a week before November 20, 1943, U.S. Navy and Seventh Air Force planes did their best to destroy the Japanese defenses on the tiny Pacific atoll of Tarawa. Read more
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England’s long downward slide to defeat in the Hundred Years’ War began with the failed siege of Orleans in 1428. Read more
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The south of Ireland, officially known as Eire and often referred to by many residing there as the “Free State,” declared its neutrality when World War II erupted suddenly in September 1939. Read more
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News arrived in the capital city that the British army had defeated a hastily-gathered and rag-tag collection of American soldiers, sailors, militiamen, and government clerks in Maryland at Bladensburg. Read more
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The “Raising of the Flag” photo taken by 33-year-old Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal on the fifth day of the Iwo Jima battle provided the world with a much-needed uplifting symbol in February 1945. Read more
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There are important similarities between Hitler’s final great push into Belgium and Luxembourg and Mussolini’s drive south of Garfagnana. Read more
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“For sugar the government often got sand; for coffee, rye; for leather, something no better than brown paper; for sound horses and mules, spavined beasts and dying donkeys; and for serviceable muskets and pistols, the experimental failures of sanguine inventors, or the refuse of shops and foreign armories.” Read more
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Recently put ashore, three companies of U.S. Marines advanced stealthily along the Matanikau River on the northern coast of Guadalcanal on September 27, 1942. Read more
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The drone of a Royal Air Force bomber could be heard overhead in the early morning of August 8, 1918, as it flew up and down the Allied line near Amiens, France. Read more
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An army that will be poised for victory requires élan, military intellect, a penchant for tactical and strategic innovation, and the zeal to use the most qualified individuals for training and leadership. Read more
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In 1917, after almost three years of hard fighting in World War I, the Romanov dynasty came to an end with the abdication of Czar Nicolas II of Russia. Read more
