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Private George B. Turner
By Edward F. MurphyThe terse announcement stunned the tightly packed group of young Marines aboard a troop ship in New York Harbor, November 12, 1918. Read more
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The state of Chinese armies in the 19th century.
The Chinese Army of the mid-19th century was in serious decline, its decay a reflection of the Qing Dynasty that produced it. Read more
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Silent Blitzkrieg: the Battle of Fort Eben Emael
By Robert Barr SmithBelgian Fort Eben Emael was as close to impregnable as modern defense works could be—or so it seemed. Read more
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Rebel Blunder at Fredericksburg
By David A. Norris
Brig. Gen. George Gordon Meade’s division spent three hours bombarded by Confederate guns on December 13, 1862. Read more
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The Flying Pipeline
By Patricia Overman
“Flying supply missions with the 435th Troop Carrier Group, or any tactical group of IX Troop Carrier Command, is a combination of taking a physical beating and sweating out land and aerial war hazards”
—Michael Seaman, Warweek Staff Writer, Stars and Stripes, April 29, 1945
By April 1945 the Allied Armies were racing east as German resistance crumbled. Read more
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Victory At A Dreadful Cost
By William E. WelshKing William I of Prussia stood resplendent in the uniform of a Prussian Guard officer on a hill in eastern France on a sunny day in late summer 1870. Read more
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Citizen Spies: Simon and Marie Koedel
By Michael W. WilliamsBuried in the October 24, 1944, edition of the New York times was the headline: “German Ex-Officer Held as Nazi Spy: Captain in Kaiser’s Army, 62 and Foster Daughter Accused of Sending Ship Data Before U.S. Read more
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Military Bicycles
By Peter SuciuAnyone who has ever visited Europe—particularly France, Italy, and the Netherlands—knows that the people in those countries love their bicycles. Read more
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“Like A Picture Of Hell”
By Chuck LyonsThe two Union generals faced each other on the afternoon of May 1, 1863, at the large house by the Orange Turnpike that had been chosen as the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. Read more
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Wildcats Ashore!
By Nathan N. PreferOn maps of the Pacific, it’s barely visible––a mere, seemingly insignificant speck in a vast ocean. Its name––unlike Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa––is virtually unknown today. Read more
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Death Penalty for Desertion
By John W. Osborn, Jr.British Army privates Thomas Highgate, Ernest Jackson, and Louis Harris shared a distinction in World War I that they undoubtedly would rather not have had. Read more
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The German Cruiser Admiral Graf Spee
By Robert L. WillettWhen the first shell hit in the dimly lit interior of the German ship, a subdued chorus came from the 29 ships’ officers held prisoner on board. Read more
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Hussite Jan Zizka
By John E. SpindlerJan Zizka belongs to the elite group of leaders who never lost a battle. He was born on or around 1360 in the village of Trocnov in the Kingdom of Bohemia. Read more
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Was General Patton Murdered? New Light on an Old Conspiracy
by Peter CrossWhen one thinks about the major conspiracy theories of the post-World War II era, one is drawn to the assassinations of President John F. Read more
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The Malmédy Massacre and the Battle of the Bulge
By Major General Michael ReynoldsMalmédy is an attractive and prosperous town situated in eastern Belgium, 15 miles from the German border. Read more
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Union Army Engineers
By Gustav PersonThe Union Army’s ambitious Overland Campaign began on May 4, 1864. It was the fourth year of the Civil War, and Lt. Read more
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The Repulse and Prince of Wales Battleships: How They Sunk
By Joseph M. HorodyskiDuring the 1920s and 1930s Great Britain built up its Far East defenses steadily if slowly, centering around Singapore as its primary naval base in the Pacific area. Read more
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British Disaster at Saratoga
By David A. NorrisFour months earlier Major General John Burgoyne had left Canada with a large army. He intended to deliver a fatal blow to the colonial revolt that had begun on April 19, 1775. Read more
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“Do You Recognize My Voice?”: The Question That Ended Operation Valkyrie
By Blaine TaylorAt 12:40 PM on a hot, sultry July 20, 1944, German Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler, 55, was seated on a wicker stool in a conference hut at his principal Eastern Front headquarters at Wolf’s Lair, Rastenburg, East Prussia, for the mid-day wartime map meeting. Read more
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Emelian Pugachev: Master Imposter of a Russian Czar
By Blaine TaylorOn August 12, 1772, a wandering Don Cossack named Emelian Pugachev crossed the Polish frontier into Imperial Russia on an official passport that entitled him, after spending six weeks in quarantine, to resettle as a free citizen on the Irgiz River in southeast Russia. Read more
