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U.S. portable flamethrowers were first used in combat during the Guadalcanal campaign in January 1943. It quickly became apparent that the exposed flamethrower operator was vulnerable to Japanese small arms fire. Read more
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Weather prediction was vital to nearly all the war efforts of the Axis and the Allies during World War II. Read more
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When the Nazis and Soviets partitioned Poland in 1939, the Polish government in exile was set up first in France, then in the United Kingdom in 1940 as France fell. Read more
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The United States and Canada share a border thousands of miles long; this naturally gives rise to friction. Read more
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During World War II, the Soviet city of Leningrad endured a siege lasting 900 days. The suffering and starvation of the populace became as legendary as their endurance. Read more
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The Empire Javelin carried five companies of the 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment across the English Channel over the night of June 5-6, 1944, en route to their appointment with destiny at Omaha Beach on D-Day. Read more
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On December 6, 1941, most people considered the battleship the queens of the world’s oceans. A day later that notion lay smashed and sinking at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Read more
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As Germany conquered neighboring nations in Europe, it made use of whatever military equipment and vehicles were used or manufactured in the occupied territories. Read more
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The U.S. Army had hundreds of thousands of troops serving in the Pacific Theater, among them G Company, 163rd Infantry, of the 41st Division. Read more
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As the age of the carrier dawned the Pacific Fleet, the most powerful in the U.S. Navy, was still dominated by battleships. Read more
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During World War II the Sherbrooke Fusiliers was an independent armored regiment attached to 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade during the Normandy campaign. Read more
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By the time of the waning of the summer of 1944 in western Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s victorious Allied armies had forged a battle line from the Dutch province of Maastricht in the north to Belfort near the Swiss border in the south. Read more
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The pages of history tend to dwell on the men who created empires. No matter how ephemeral may be the famed exploits of an Alexander, Caesar or Napoleon, historians have written volumes on their behalf. Read more
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They said it couldn’t be done. Doubters chided Henry Ford for declaring that his Willow Run Bomber Plant could turn out a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber every hour. Read more
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K Rations remain one of the great icons of World War II. Soldiers either loved them or hated them. Read more
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It was the middle of June 1191, and the Third Crusade was bogged down before the walls of Acre, the largest city and chief port of the former Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Read more
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On August 2, 1945, two weeks prior to Japan’s surrender, the highest ranking Japanese officer captured during the war in the Pacific was taken on the island of Morotai, Dutch New Guinea. Read more
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The October light was beginning to fade as the U.S. Army limousine sped along the autobahn in the American Zone of Occupied Germany. Read more
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Seldom was the hand of fate so clearly exposed in the affairs of men as it did during the French and Indian War when Maj. Read more
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The Russian Army of World War I is comparatively unknown in the West when compared with the other major combatants of that conflict. Read more
