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Brian Bruce’s ‘MacArthur’s Bloody Butchers’
By Christopher MiskimonThe U.S. Army had hundreds of thousands of troops serving in the Pacific Theater, among them G Company, 163rd Infantry, of the 41st Division. Read more
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Mark Lardas’ ‘U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet 1941’
By Christopher MiskimonAs the age of the carrier dawned the Pacific Fleet, the most powerful in the U.S. Navy, was still dominated by battleships. Read more
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Daniel M Braun’s ‘Armored Thunder’
By Christopher MiskimonDuring World War II the Sherbrooke Fusiliers was an independent armored regiment attached to 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade during the Normandy campaign. Read more
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Bloody Aachen
By Richard RuleBy the time of the waning of the summer of 1944 in western Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s victorious Allied armies had forged a battle line from the Dutch province of Maastricht in the north to Belfort near the Swiss border in the south. Read more
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Zenobia’s Bloody War of Independence
By Glenn BarnettThe pages of history tend to dwell on the men who created empires. No matter how ephemeral may be the famed exploits of an Alexander, Caesar or Napoleon, historians have written volumes on their behalf. Read more
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Willow Run Bomber Plant
Samantha L. QuigleyThey said it couldn’t be done. Doubters chided Henry Ford for declaring that his Willow Run Bomber Plant could turn out a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber every hour. Read more
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K Rations Created the World’s Best Fed Army
By Richard BerantyK Rations remain one of the great icons of World War II. Soldiers either loved them or hated them. Read more
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Richard the Lionheart’s Victory on the Road to Jerusalem
By Eric NiderostIt was the middle of June 1191, and the Third Crusade was bogged down before the walls of Acre, the largest city and chief port of the former Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Read more
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Patton’s Last Command
By Alexander LovelaceThe October light was beginning to fade as the U.S. Army limousine sped along the autobahn in the American Zone of Occupied Germany. Read more
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Major General Braddock’s March on Fort Duquesne
By Colonel John P. Sinnott AUS (Ret.)Seldom was the hand of fate so clearly exposed in the affairs of men as it did during the French and Indian War when Maj. Read more
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Imperial Russian Army Uniforms
By Kevin MahoneyThe Russian Army of World War I is comparatively unknown in the West when compared with the other major combatants of that conflict. Read more
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Deadly Thoroughbred Unleashed
By Michael D. HullFast, graceful, and deadly, the British Supermarine Spitfire was one of the most recognizable and famous fighter planes of World War II. Read more
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Curtiss Flying Jennies Pursue Pancho Villa Across Northern Mexico
By M. L. WebsterAt four-thirty on the morning of March 19, 1916, the sound of gunfire echoed through the streets of Columbus, New Mexico, a border settlement of adobe houses, a bank, a post office and a few stores surrounded by cactus, mesquite and rattlesnakes. Read more
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1st Special Service Force Fight for Mt. La Difensa
By Christopher MiskimonDusk came early as they boarded the convoy of trucks, their olive-drab forms softened by baggy trousers and heavy field jackets. Read more
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Forgotten Substitute
By John EmmertDecades of feature films and years of video games have created an image of the World War II American GI and Marine slugging it out against Axis foes with the M1 Garand semiautomatic rifle and the Thompson submachine gun, with the occasional M1 carbine thrown in for good measure. Read more
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Lee’s October ’63 Move on Meade
By Robert SuhrIn early October 1863, three months after the setback at Gettysburg, three months after Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart was rebuked by his esteemed superior Robert E. Read more
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The Largest Plot to Kill Hitler? – Operation Valkyrie
by Blaine TaylorFor Nazi Party Führer (Leader) and German Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler, July 20th, 1944 dawned as a routine working day at his principal wartime military headquarters, the Wolfsschanze (Fort Wolf) in the East Prussian forest of Rastenburg, some three hundred air miles from Berlin, in what is today Poland. Read more
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Hollywood Delivers the Story of the 6888th Battalion
By D.C. MontanaWhen Hollywood’s Tyler Perry heard a story about the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the U.S. Army’s only all-female, all-Black unit of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) to go overseas in World War II, he knew he had to make a movie about it. Read more
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The Jablunkov Incident
By Peter ZablockiAt around 9:30 p.m. on August 25, 1939, a German Opel staff car burst into the courtyard of the temporary headquarters of the Abwehr (German Military Intelligence) near the Slovakian and Polish border. Read more
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Sargon the Great and the World’s First Professional Army
by Brian GeeslinIn about 2340 BC, the king of the ancient city of Kish, Ur-Zababa, was ousted from his throne by one of his courtiers who went by the name of Sargon, who would later be known as King Sargon the Great. Read more
