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They have been called “the other Navy,” the “Navy’s stepchildren,” and perhaps most fittingly, “the forgotten Navy.” Officially, however, they were the Naval Armed Guard or more simply the Armed Guard (AG). Read more
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History often remarks on the attack on the Japanese battleship Yamato, but her sister ship, the Musashi, suffered a similar fate at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Read more
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The author was a starving teenage boy, enslaved by the Nazis and imprisoned in a concentration camp. Over the years of his captivity, he spent time in six different camps. Read more
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Admiral Wilhelm Canaris served as Hitler’s chief of military intelligence, leading the Abwehr. Many found him dull and uninteresting, not even a particularly good naval officer. Read more
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Raymond O. Barton earned the nickname “Tubby” at West Point due to his athletic ability in football and wrestling. Read more
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When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, it began four and a half years of brutal occupation. Read more
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The Italian Campaign had to be fought, though no one on the Allied side wished to fight it. Read more
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At 0812 hours on August 6, 1945, the B29 bomber carrying the atomic bomb began its final bomb run. Read more
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As France fell in May 1940, scientist Vannevar Bush delivered a note to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Read more
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The Battle for Berlin was the climax of the War in Europe. This massive operation involved 2.3 million Soviet troops on two fronts, from the east and south. Read more
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At 3:30 in the morning, the first mortar round exploded on the Capo Murro di Porco gun battery on the island of Sicily. Read more
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The first days of the Ardennes Offensive were hard on the American forces defending the region. St Vith was hit especially hard. Read more
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Spitfires is the story of 26 American women who shared a love for the air and a desire to do what their own country wouldn’t let them—contribute to the war effort as pilots. Read more
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A small stone bridge over the Merderet River was a linchpin in the Allied invasion of Normandy, part of a causeway through marshy land that would allow troops from Utah Beach to get to Cherbourgh—the only deepwater port that could support such a massive military offensive. Read more
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It took an ideologically and politically divided coalition to defeat the global threat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Read more
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On February 19, 1945, nine British and Canadian divisions stood on the brink of victory after fighting their way through rain, mud, cold, and determined Germans to break through the Reichswald Forest between the Rhine and Maas Rivers—opening the way for the British assault into Germany’s heartland. Read more
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The Texas sun beat down in early June, 1844, as 75 Comanche lay hidden in the thick underbrush along the bank of a small creek. Read more
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He enlisted in 1934. Except for those at Pearl Harbor, he was the first American casualty of the war. Read more
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It was May 23, 1945, roughly a year before the execution of Julius Streicher, founder and publisher of the vilest anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda of the war. Read more
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In the late summer of 490 BCE, a large Persian army landed at the plain of Marathon just 26 miles from Athens. Read more
