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The average American airman in World War II faced some tough challenges. Products of the Great Depression, roughly 50 percent of those who fought the war came from rural America. Read more
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It may be harrowing to experience for many, especially in such an intimate way, but it remains surprising that there aren’t more World War II-based virtual reality games out there. Read more
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Veering off of our current timeline, developer Overseer Games’ Kaiserpunk takes aim at an alternate history that noticeably split from our reality after the end of World War I. Read more
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Word spread like wildfire through the camps of the Army of the Potomac during the second week of November 1862: “Little Mac” was out, “Old Burn” was in. Read more
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Snow and biting cold covered American foxholes in the Vosges and the Alsace plain as GI wristwatches ticked down the last hours of December 31, 1944, awaiting the German attack. Read more
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Marine Lieutenant George Cannon flinched instinctively as a barrage of shells erupted short of the sandy beach with a violent roar, sending columns of water and sand soaring into the air. Read more
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You won’t find the familiar little triangular signs, “Warnung Minen!” hanging on barbed wire today in Western Europe, with one exception. Read more
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Admiral William F. Halsey had never seen such destruction. Making matters worse, the harm had been inflicted on his beloved Navy inside one of its strongholds—the Pacific bastion of Pearl Harbor. Read more
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During the last days of the Third Reich and the immediate aftermath of World War II in Europe, the Allied hunt for the high-ranking Nazis closest to the Führer was vigorous. Read more
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Shortly after midnight on the morning of April 12, 1861, four men in a rowboat made their way across the pitch-black harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, toward an unfinished and architecturally insignificant masonry fort three miles out from the city where the harbor meets the Atlantic Ocean. Read more
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November 13, 1942, was a Friday, which sailors aboard the cruiser USS San Francisco noted with anxiety. Read more
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At 8 am on the cold, blustery morning of November 7, 1941, the 24th anniversary of the Russian Communist Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, a dashing lone horseman galloped out of the Spassky Gate of the Kremlin onto snow-covered Red Square. Read more
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Soochow was a mongrel dog with a remarkable gift for self-preservation. A homeless stray, he attached himself to some U.S. Read more
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A variety of outstanding weapons and pieces of equipment affected the course of World War II for both the Allies and the Axis powers. Read more
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Nations have often pressed unsavory characters and criminals into service during wartime, rationalizing that such action is in the best interest of the country during extraordinary times. Read more
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Those who served the Protestant spiritual needs of the fighting men of the Civil War, in both official unofficial capacites, faced numerous barriers, shortages and hardships—though they did receive a captain’s salary and horse, they were not identified as such by the government, nor were they provided with uniforms, rations or forage for the horse. Read more
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Elizabeth Van Lew was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1818, to parents from Philadelphia and Long Island. Raised in a mansion in the city, she finished her education in Philadelphia. Read more
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The author brings to life the efforts of four women in different parts of Italy, who each in their own way found it within themselves to resist both Italian fascists and Nazi invaders. Read more
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Details the efforts of the resistance movement of the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (FULRO), whose objective was autonomy for various indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in South Vietnam, including the Montagnards in the Central Highlands, the Chams in Central Vietnam, and the Khmer Krom in Southern Vietnam. Read more
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In a basement in Honolulu, Hawaii, a team of unconventional military cryptographers known as Station Hypo are led by Lt.-Com. Read more
