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Struggle for Stalin’s Skies
By Kelly Bell
On February 3, 1943, Lieutenant Herbert Kuntz of the 100th Bomber Group made the last flight by any German pilot over the Soviet city of Stalingrad. Read more
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Lust for Glory: Napoleon’s Egypt Campaigns Helped With Invading Europe
By Don HollwayIn May 1798 English spies in Toulon, on the French Mediterranean coast, stood aghast at the gathering of an invasion fleet three times the size of the Spanish Armada: 13 ships of the line, 40 frigates and smaller warships, and 130 cargo vessels bearing more than 17,000 troops, 700 horses, and 1,000 cannons. Read more
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The 1st Polish Armoured Division Served with Honor
By William StroockPolish Major General Stanislaw Macze, commander of the 1st Polish Armoured Division stood tall and watched as General Guy Simonds, II Canadian Corps, delivered very harsh news to the half dozen German generals and admirals of the 1st Parachute Army, General Erich Straub commanding. Read more
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Massacre At Malmédy
By Nathan N. PreferThe surrender did not begin well. As First Lieutenant Virgil Lary stood in the road next to a snow-covered field just south of Malmédy, Belgium with his hands raised, one of the German tankers poked his head out of the hatch and fired twice at him with his pistol. Read more
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Operation Husky: Allied Power Struggle
By William DennisBy the summer of 1943, American forces felt that they had proven that they were as good as anything the enemy could throw at them. Read more
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The Ijmuiden Raids: None Came Back
By Allyn VannoyEven as they were being integrated into the European Allied air campaign, the use and operation of American B-26 Marauders, and other medium bombers, was still being worked out—with sometimes, as at IJmuiden, Holland, disastrous results. Read more
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Tarawa: ‘Marine Corps’ Toughest Battle
By Flint WhitlockFor a week before November 20, 1943, U.S. Navy and Seventh Air Force planes did their best to destroy the Japanese defenses on the tiny Pacific atoll of Tarawa. Read more
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Ronald Speirs: ‘Imperfect But Daring Leader’
By Jared Frederick & Erik DorrSwirls of black smoke billowed high above the steeples and splintered roofs as Lieutenant Ronald Speirs surveyed the stucco exteriors of storefronts and dwellings pocked by the scars of urban battle. Read more
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‘Hallowed war grave’ is world’s deepest discovered shipwreck
The Battle of Leyte Gulf, from October 23-26, 1944, was the largest air and sea battle of World War II. An important part of the battle took place off Samar Island on October 25, 1944. Read more
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Joe Johnson’s Ordeal
By Marcus BrothertonPrivate Joe Johnson wakes on the floor of the Pasay schoolhouse, a few miles south of downtown Manila, capital of the Philippines. Read more
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Clash of the Civil War Ironclads
By David A. NorrisSmoke swirled amid the thunderous noise that roared from powerful Dahlgren guns and Brooke rifles. Thousands of spectators along the shore watched the two most dangerous warships in the world at each other at point-blank range. Read more
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Sergeants, Service Pilots and Civilians
By Sam McGowanMost historical accounts of World War II aviation relate the experiences of commissioned officers, men who obtained their wings through completion of a military pilot training program. Read more
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Shootout At Rubio Ranch
By Kevin M. HymelWhen Brig. Gen. John S. Pershing began assembling a force of 10,000 infantry and cavalry for a punitive incursion into Mexico in the spring of 1916, almost every soldier in the U.S. Read more
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Imbroglio at Brolo
By Eric EthierFresh off a tense telephone conversation with Maj. Gen. Lucian Truscott, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., climbed into a jeep and rumbled over to Truscott’s 3rd Infantry Division headquarters east of Terranova, on Sicily’s northeastern coast. Read more
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Gallant Charge at Antietam
By William E. WelshThe Union soldiers of Colonel Harrison Fairchild’s brigade prepared to attack uphill against a key Rebel position on the outskirts of Sharpsburg at 3 pm on September 17, 1862. Read more
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Italy’s Daredevil Torpedo Riders
By Chuck LyonsOn a dark night in September 1941, moving at periscope depth, an Italian submarine edged into Gibraltar Bay near the British harbor. Read more
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Fight in the Fog: The Battle of Vercellae on the Raudine Plain
By Lindsay PowellIn 102 bc, a disturbing report circulated through Rome that the people they called Cimbri and Teutones had crossed the Alps. Read more
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To Die in the Marianas
By Robert A. RosenthalThe tranquility of early dawn on June 15, 1944, was interrupted by the sounds of powerful naval guns and the roar of amtraks churning the water. Read more
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City Point Bombing
By William E. WelshBy the Summer of 1864, it was no longer likely the Army of Northern Virginia would invade the North a third time, would launch another major offensive, or even drive Union forces away from Richmond and Petersburg. Read more
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The Wonder of the Walter Boat
By Phil ZimmerGerman engineer Hellmuth Walter stretched his shoulders, rubbed his face, and eased his hat back on his head as he walked down the wooden dock toward a covered deck. Read more
