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Boeing Wonderland: The Fake Cities on America’s West Coast
By Bill YenneWhen I was a young boy in Seattle, my father told me about a fake town that had been built on top of Boeing’s Plant 2 during the war. Read more
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Private Military Collector Jacques Littlefield
By Albert MrozWhat may be the world’s largest collection of tanks and half-tracks, as well as other treaded vehicles and related artifacts, is not in the hands of any government branch or army office. Read more
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Yelling Like Demons
By Mike PhiferMajor General James Ewell Brown Stuart was in all his glory. It was June 8, 1863, and the Confederate cavalry commander was putting on a grand review of his horse soldiers on a plain west of the Rappahannock River near Brandy Station, Virginia, for none other than General Robert E. Read more
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Operation Uranus: Marshal Georgi Zhukov’s Stalingrad Trap
by Pat McTaggartIn the fall of 1942, in a prelude to the now-famous Operation Uranus, the Red Army had its back to the wall once again. Read more
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Could Custer have been saved at Little Bighorn?
By Adam LynchWe can never know what frantic thoughts raced through George Armstrong Custer’s mind in the last hour of his life. Read more
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Taking the Brunt
By Alan DavidgeMost of the action during the Battle of Britain in the late summer of 1940 took place over southern England where Royal Air Force Spitfires and Hurricanes began to dominate dogfights against their German rivals. Read more
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St. Quentin Miniature
By Bruce WeigleMiniature wargames have been played by hobbyists for decades, both for pure entertainment and as part of legitimate research. Read more
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The General Patton Memorial Museum
Raymond E. Bell, Jr.Thirty miles east of Indio, California, is the General Patton Memorial Museum, a special museum dedicated to General George S. Read more
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Rescuing ‘Il Duce’
By Colonel Bernd Horn, Canadian Army (ret.)The flimsy canvas flapped loudly as it buckled in the wind. More bothersome for the nine German commandos crammed inside the narrow fuselage was the constant motion—sinking, then sharply rising, as the DFS-230 glider ploughed and pitched through the towing aircraft’s turbulent wake. Read more
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Blood on the Fallow Fields
By William F. Floyd, Jr.Everyone in Washington, D.C., knew the reason Maj. Gen. Ulysses Grant was in town. He had a hard time moving around without people applauding him everywhere he went. Read more
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Convoy PQ 17: A Story of Unprecedented Arctic Disaster
By Keith MiltonFirst Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound stopped tapping his pencil on the oaken desk and slowly leaned backward in the oversized leather chair. Read more
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Medal of Honor Recipient: Henry Lawton
By Chuck LyonsOn August 3, 1864, near Atlanta, Georgia, Captain Henry Lawton of Indiana led a group of Union skirmishers in a charge against Confederate rifle pits. Read more
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Smokescreens: Fighting for Metz
By Jon LatimerWith the defeat of the German Seventh Army and the closing of the Falaise Gap in the summer of 1944, the Allies pursued the retreating enemy across France. Read more
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The Sam Browne Belt Assembly
By Robert H. WhiterAnd here we have the Sam Browne belt assembly,” explained the sergeant who was showing us around the Police Academy. Read more
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Patton’s Diplomatic Tour of the Front
By Kevin M. HymelAverell Harriman, the ambassador to the Soviet Union, visited the American battlefront lines near the German border in the fall of 1944. Read more
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“God Has Been Our Shield”
By Joshua ShepherdThe regiment of Yankees, which was largely composed of German immigrants, advanced through a field of clover in the Shenandoah Valley in search of the Rebel line to its front on June 8, 1862. Read more
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Marauding Kriegsmarine Raider
By Ralph SegmanSay the words “pocket battleship” and up pops the name Admiral Graf Spee. Her two sister ships, the Deutschland/Lutzow and the Admiral Scheer are virtually unknown to Americans. Read more
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Desperate Fight on the Plains
By Eric NiderostIn June 24, 1867, W.W. Wright’s survey expedition reached Fort Wallace, Kans., one of the string of military posts that guarded the Smoky Hill Trail to Denver and the beckoning goldfields of Colorado. Read more
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Douglas A-20 Havoc Bomber: The Scourge of Axis Shipping
By Robert F. McEniryFollowing the apocalyptic initial phase of Operation Barbarossa starting on June 22, 1941, the Germans inflicted crippling losses on the Red Army Air Forces (VVS) and the Soviet Naval Air Forces (VVS-VMF). Read more
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Slugger Turned Spearhead Tanker
By Darren NeelyHundreds of American professional baseball players gave pause to their promising careers to step up to the plate for their country during World War II. Read more
