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The M50A1 Ontos Anti-tank Vehicle
By William F. Floyd, Jr.On January 30, 1968, eight battalions of North Vietnamese Army infantry infiltrated the city of Hue in South Vietnam. Read more
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French Collapse at Maida
By Simon ReesThe soldiers of the French 1st Light Infantry surged forward toward the double line of the British Light Battalion. Read more
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The U.S. Navy’s Defective Mark 14 Torpedo
By Mark CarlsonLieutenant Dan Daspit, captain of the U.S. submarine Tinosa could not believe his luck. Framed neatly in the periscope eyepiece was a sitting duck. Read more
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Combat in Normandy’s Hedgerows
By Scott A. BryanLate in the evening on D-Day two German soldiers patrolled the outskirts of Colleville-sur-Mer, about one mile from Omaha Beach, and spotted Company C, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division resting in a hedgerow field. Read more
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General Harry Schmidt: World War II’s Quiet Marine
By Nathan N. PreferHe organized, trained, and commanded the 4th Marine Division in the Marshall Islands and Saipan campaigns before taking command of the Fifth Amphibious Corps and leading it against Tinian and Iwo Jima. Read more
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Immortal Charge of the Light Brigade
By Christopher MiskimonSix battalions of Russian infantry, 30 cannons, and a cavalry force deployed in the North Valley east of Sevastopol near the town of Balaclava. Read more
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Pickett’s Charge: “We Gained Nothing But Glory”
By Eric Niderost
July 3, 1863, dawned clear and bright, the warm sun promising even greater heat to come. By noon, temperatures were already in the low 90s, a typically hot and humid summer day in southern Pennsylvania. Read more
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Panzer Lehr Division’s Assault on Bastogne
By Arnold BlumbergOn December 10, 1944, Generalleutnant (equivalent to major general in the U.S. Army during World War II) Fritz Bayerlein was called to a meeting at Kyllburg (Eifel) to participate in a map exercise involving an advance to the Meuse River. Read more
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The Few, the Proud, the Black Marines in World War II
By Stephen D. LutzPrior to the summer of 1941, the United States Marine Corps did not want them. The Navy barely tolerated them in restricted capacities as cooks, waiters, servants for officers, and dockside stevedores. Read more
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101st Airborne Medic recalls Op. Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge
By Kevin M. Hymel“You’re crazy to go out there!” a paratrooper shouted to medic Al Mampre as he bolted from a trench outside of the Dutch town of Eindhoven. Read more
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Book Reviews: Douglas MacArthur’s air force, a WW I machine gunner, and more
By Christopher MiskimonBalikpapan was the most important oil refinery complex in the Pacific during World War II. Located on the island of Borneo in what was then the Dutch East Indies, one expert considered it “the most complete oil refinery outside the continental limits of the United States.” Read more
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The German Channel Dash
By Mark Simmons“To cap it all, down came the fog, the sort you sometimes get at sea—one minute clear, the next in a fog bank—so we relied on our radar a lot. Read more
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D-Day Battle for Easy Red & Fox Green Beaches
By Flint Whitlock
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Savage Struggle for Leningrad
By Blaine TaylorLeningrad was the sacred city of Soviet Communism. The port city on the Neva River, 400 miles northwest of Moscow, began life in 1703 as Petrograd, or St. Read more
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World War II Odyssey Across Europe
By Roy AltenbachRoy Altenbach, a soldier from a German-speaking family in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, was assigned to the 47th Medium Maintenance Company, 22nd Ordnance Battalion. Read more
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Hitler’s Wonder Weapons
By Mason B. WebbImagine that you are an Allied soldier in the ETO. You are in your foxhole on the front line, looking and listening for any sign that the Germans are about to attack your position. Read more
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Bloody Stand at the Battle of Albuera
By Simon ReesAmid gun smoke and squalls of rain, the men of 1st Battalion, 3rd Foot, known as the Buffs, were firing their weapons and listening for further orders. Read more
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Desperate Los Baños Raid
By Christopher MiskimonHenry Muller had an important job. He was the intelligence officer of the 11th Airborne Division, known in military parlance as the G-2. Read more
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The Taylor-Smith feud derailed the Red River Campaign
The feud between Confederate generals Richard Taylor and Kirby Smith remains one of the most contentious examples of in-fighting in the Confederate high command during the American Civil War. Read more
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Operation Cobra: Get a Move On!
By Patrick J. ChaissonCompany B’s jeeps, armored cars, and self-propelled guns stood lined up on a narrow road, their crewmen anxious to move out. Read more
