Alexander Pokryshkin was second only to Ivan Kozedub in Soviet aerial victories during World War II.   More »

B-29s built in Georgia helped the United States win the war with Japan.   More »

On October 31, 1941, the USS Reuben James became one of America’s first casualties of war—even before war was declared.   More »

Seventy years later, should the “Desert Fox” be considered an anti-Nazi hero or a faithful soldier turned opportunist?   More »

The United States 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine divisions faced their sternest trials by fire in the month long battle to take the island of Iwo Jima.   More »

Unprepared, a group of 25 American Marines fell victim to one of the first publicized atrocities committed by the Japanese in the South Pacific.   More »

The Poles and Lithuanians invaded the lands of the Teutonic Order in 1410 in a bid to gain regional dominance.   More »

Bravery was not enough to overcome uninspired tactics in a bloody clash between Marshal Massena and Viscount Wellington during the Peninsular War.   More »

American tanks and artillery wreaked havoc on newly created German panzer formations during the Battle of Arracourt in September 1944.   More »

Ernest Cuneo helped the Roosevelt administration with little fanfare before, during, and after World War II.   More »