British interests in Europe clashed with American strategy in WWII. How the clash influenced the making of the Iron Curtain is debated to this day.   More »

Future U.S. President Harry S. Truman led a National Guard field artillery battery on the Western Front during the Great War.   More »

A crisis in available British manpower during the fight for Caen affected allied strategy in Western Europe.   More »

To enter Germany, the U.S. Army would first need to capture the city of Aachen in one of the toughest urban battles of World War II.   More »

By Kevin M. Hymel

The invasion force was ready. All across the United Kingdom men waited in more than 5,000 ships and hundreds of landing craft. Pilots, crewmen, and paratroopers waited around fighters, bombers, and carrier planes. Jeeps, trucks, tanks, and every type of military vehicle in the Western Allied arsenal   More »

In December 1944, Otto Skorzeny led hundreds of German commandos on an audacious mission behind enemy lines known as Operation Greif.   More »

Today, May 8, 1945 is known as ‘V-E Day,’ marking the surrender of Germany and the Axis powers in Europe.   More »

In April 1944, Exercise Tiger proved to be a grisly rehearsal for the D-Day Invasion less than two months later.   More »

The contrasting styles of Generals of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur both proved to be war winners during global conflict.   More »

By Steve Ossad

Afew months after the Normandy campaign and with other fronts competing for the American public’s attention, Lt. Col. S.L.A. “Slam” Marshall, a hard-living Chicago newspaperman, World War I veteran, and deputy historian in the European Theater, hand carried the first of the War Departmemt campaign publications, Omaha Beachhead,to   More »