Sandy Bonnyman led the way for other marines during a bloody assault and earned the medal of honor.   More »

Portugal was one of the most important places on earth during World War II, but as the war carried on, it became much more difficult to remain neutral.   More »

During World War II, Portugal led the world in the production of wolframite, coveted by both the Allied and Axis powers but especially precious to Germany.    More »

In Tunisia 1942, Rommel seemingly was trapped between American forces advancing to block his retreat and British forces in hot pursuit to his rear.   More »

The Rabaul campaign would prove to be one of the longest of World War II. The objective was to neutralize a geographically ideal Japanese stronghold.   More »

Six days after the bloody Battle of Chickamauga, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet wrote to Confederate Secretary of War James Seddon, saying, “I am convinced that nothing but the hand of God can save us or help us as long as we have our present commander.” Longstreet was referring to Braxton   More »

Designed by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the objective of Operation Market-Garden was to cross the Lower Rhine at Arnhem and sweep into the Ruhr, the industrial heart of Germany. There was talk at the time that a successful mission could get everyone home by Christmas 1944. The key to its   More »

Some historians attribute the fall of the Iron Curtain to President Franklin Roosevelt’s gross miscalculation of the Soviet Union in World War II. British historian Alan Clark writes in his book Barbarossa that “Roosevelt’s betrayal of Eastern Europe, whether out of calculation or gullibility, is so notorious as to need   More »

The Douglas C-54 Skkymaster served around the globe during World War II and accelerated the growth of peacetime air travel.   More »

After escaping from Germany and Austria, a number of Jews joined the Allied armies to take back their former homelands from the Nazis.   More »