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Con Thien: Hell on the Hill of Angels
By Al HemingwayLieutenant General Lewis Walt was not a happy man. The burly III Marine Amphibious Force commander had just been ordered by Commanding General William C. Read more
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WWII Letters: Corporal James. G. Delaney
By Maura B. DelaneyLetters were a valuable commodity to the World War II soldier. They were the link to home and to all things familiar in a most unfamiliar place and time. Read more
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Still a Splendid Sight: Merrill’s Mauraders
By Al HemingwayPrivate First Class Frank Rinaldi cautiously made his way through the dense foliage. He and other soldiers were on patrol when they heard the unmistakable sound of Japanese voices, and they inched their way forward to investigate. Read more
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Rising Sun and Russian Bear
By Michael E. Haskew
For three centuries, feudal Japan remained comfortably isolated from the rest of the world. By order of the Tokugawa Shogunate, foreigners landing on Japanese shores risked immediate execution. Read more
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Walter Koehler & J. Edgar Hoover
By David Alan JohnsonThroughout his lifetime, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover always boasted that no enemy agent, either spy or saboteur, ever operated at large in the United States during World War II. Read more
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The Korean War’s Counterfire Platoons
By Richard E. EckerIn March 1953, a battle-scarred United Nations outpost called “Old Baldy” was attacked by elements of the Chinese Army and captured from the Colombian soldiers occupying it. Read more
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German U-Boats: Scapa Flow Shock
By Jon LatimerWorld War II had been in progress for six weeks when on the evening of October 12, 1939, the German submarine U-47 surfaced off the Orkney Islands at the northern tip of Scotland. Read more
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The Dragon and the Boar: The Battle of Bosworth Field
By William E. WelshLike bees guarding their hive, the royal host of King Richard III swarmed atop 400-foot-high Ambion Hill near the Leicestershire village of Market Bosworth on the morning of August 22, 1485. Read more
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Over the Hump: Supplying Allied Forces over the Himalayas
By Sam McGowanIn truth, it really was not a combat operation. For every airplane lost to enemy action, a hundred were destroyed in accidents. Read more
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The History of the U.S. Coast Guard
By Blaine TaylorOn August 4, 1790, at the urging of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, the United States Congress authorized the construction of 10 armed revenue cutters. Read more
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First Deadly Round at The Battle of Monte Cassino
By David H. LippmanBy December 1943, the phrase “sunny Italy” had evolved from being a travel agent’s selling point to becoming an ugly joke for the British and American troops of the Allied Fifth Army, advancing north from Naples to Rome. Read more
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Fire Over Texas: Galveston in the Civil War
By R. Thomas CampbellWhen Texas seceded from the Union on February 1, 1861, it did not take long for the new Confederate government to realize that the state’s 385-mile coastline was extremely vulnerable to enemy assaults. Read more
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12 O’Clock High: American Airmen in World War II
By Allan T. DuffinA hard-hitting novel that inspired a classic war film, 12 O’Clock High was a very personal project for co-authors Beirne Lay, Jr., Read more
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Civil War Fieldworks
By Kevin O’BeirneEver since Julius Caesar’s legions conquered Gaul, opposing armies have built temporary fortifications, or fieldworks, during campaigns in the open countryside. Read more
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The Mechanization of War in the Desert
By Christopher MiskimonBenito Mussolini dreamed of a new Roman Empire centered around the modern nation of Italy. “The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake,” he said. Read more
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Arthur S. Lefkowitz’ ‘George Washington’s Revenge’
By Christopher MiskimonIn late 1776, the Continental Army was in a desperate position. In August, they retreated from Long Island to Manhattan; in November they withdrew into New Jersey and soon after into Pennsylvania. Read more
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Fighting with Kurdish Anti-Isis Forces
By Christopher MiskimonDr. Till Paasche and Shaun Murray were from different countries, but they came together in Syria. Shaun was just a child when the 9/11 attacks occurred, and by the time he was old enough to serve, the war in Iraq was winding down. Read more
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Michael G. Welham’s Combat Divers
By Christopher MiskimonA group of Israeli divers quietly came ashore at an Egyptian-held island at the south entrance of the Suez Canal in 1969. Read more
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Kelly Eads and Daniel S. Morgan ‘Black Hearts and Painted Guns’
By Christopher MiskimonThe American patrol had spent hours dismounted from their armored Humvees, walking along fields, canals and roads. They found two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), defused them and then decided to use their vehicles to get to the final patrol location. Read more
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The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada in the Rhineland, 1945
By Angus ScullyBy February 1945, the green Allied formations that landed on D-Day had become hard professional armies. Army, corps, and division commands had been shaken down and were operating efficiently. Read more
