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POW: Art and the Image of The Prisoner
By Peter HarringtonWar produces casualties … and captives. Much “war art” concerns itself with the heroics and clash of battle, the sway of forces, and the turns of history. Read more
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Unforgiving Jungle Combat
By Al HemingwayThe Allies eyed New Britain as a key prize in General Douglas MacArthur’s island-hopping strategy, but the ferocious combat—and the terrible weather and terrain—would take its toll. Read more
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Ordnance: The British PIAT (Projector Infantry Anti-Tank) Gun
By Robert Barr SmithIt was surely as ungainly a weapon as was ever made, and one of the clumsiest. It was a 3-foot, 32-pound steel tube with a monopod to support it, a huge trigger on the underside, and a padded shoulder piece at one end. Read more
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The Battle of Eylau: A Massacre Without Results
By Vince HawkinsFollowing the French Army’s brilliant victories at the twin battles of Jena and Auerstadt on October 14, 1806, the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte subsequently launched his Grande Armée in a devastating pursuit of the remnants of the Prussian Army. Read more
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Benny Delahauf Foulois
By Michael D. HullResembling a “collection of bamboo poles more or less indefinitely attached to a gasoline engine,” the U.S. Read more
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The Dade Battle: Ambush in Florida
By Donald J. Roberts IIThe road that stretched through the pine and palmetto woodlands of central Florida was void of the usual animal chitter-chatter on the cool morning of December 28, 1835. Read more
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The Culper Spy Ring: The American Revolution’s Great Secret
By Peter KrossThe American Revolution was a proving ground for American spy operations. General George Washington’s use of deception, covert activities, secret inks, and informers was a model for future spymasters. Read more
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Operation Biting: the Bruneval Raid to Capture German Radar
By Robert Barr SmithThrough the long, lovely days of the summer of 1940, almost two years before Operation Biting or the “Bruneval Raid,” Royal Air Force Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes turned back the might of the Luftwaffe over southern and southeastern Britain. Read more
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The General George Patton Museum of Calvary and Armor
By Blaine TaylorFifty years have gone by since the inception of the Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor at Fort Knox, Ky., Read more
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Waffen SS General Felix Steiner’s WWII Legacy
By Pat McTaggart“Where is Steiner?” Adolf Hitler demanded as his Thousand Year Reich crumbled around him in April 1945. “Is he attacking yet?” Read more
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Hermann Göring and His Final Judgment at Nuremberg
By Blaine TaylorThe Allied indictment against Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946) at Nuremberg as issued by the International Military Tribunal in 1945 reads as follows:
“The defendant Göring between 1932-45 was: member of the Nazi Party, Supreme Leader of the SA (Brownshirts), General in the SS, a member and President of the Reichstag, Minister of the Interior of Prussia, Chief of the Prussian Police and Prussian Secret Police, Chief of the Prussian State Council, Trustee of the Four Year Plan; “Reich Minister for Air, Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, President of the Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich, member of the Secret Cabinet Council, head of the Hermann Göring Industrial Combine, and Successor Designate to Hitler. Read more
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Kenji Doihara: Japanese General and Convicted War Criminal
By Wil DeacAt 11:30 pm on December 22, 1948, four handcuffed men were led by guards into the chapel of Tokyo’s Sugamo Prison. Read more
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The Air Transport Command: From Lend Lease To The Hump
By Sam McGowanWorld War II was responsible for numerous technological advances, not the least of which was the establishment of the largest airline in history. Read more
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USS Franklin and Father O’Callahan
By Michael D. HullOn March 3, 1945, the 27,100-ton aircraft carrier USS Franklin churned out of Pearl Harbor and headed westward for the war zone. Read more
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Cavalry Clash at the Hook
By Joshua ShepherdEarly on the morning of October 3, 1781, a detachment of French hussars trotted down a sandy road in Gloucester County, Virginia. Read more
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Retained English Longbowman, 1350-1425
The English longbow, originally adopted from the Welsh, was made from a single piece of Yew wood, and required skill to make and use. Read more
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World War II’s “Ghost Army” Awarded Congressional Gold Medals
By Kevin SeabrookeMore than 80 years after they conducted visual, sonic and radio deception against German forces during World War II, soldiers who served in the so-called “Ghost Army” received the Congressional Gold Medal on Thursday, March 20, 2024. Read more
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Rommel in the Desert
By David H. LippmanLieutenant General Erwin Rommel, a rising star in Germany’s equally rising war effort, was tasked with saving Italy, Germany’s key ally, from a grave disaster in North Africa. Read more
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Confederate Major John Pelham’s flying battery made him a hero when he was only 23.
By Nat R. LouisDuring the Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia, in May 1862, General Joseph Hooker’s Union forces were in pursuit of the withdrawing Confederates. Read more
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John Brown’s Bloody Abolitionist Crusade
By Eric NiderostAgroup of insurgents, probably abolitionists fiercely dedicated to ending slavery, had seized the Federal Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry—that was the news Charles W. Read more
