Walking in the Footsteps of Heroes
•October 4, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
In this season’s WWII Quarterly, Flint Whitlock shares with us his experiences touring the battlefields of Italy. More »
Code named Operation Overlord, the D-Day Invasion occurred on June 6, 1944, as elements of five Allied infantry and three Allied airborne divisions assaulted the Normandy coast of Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Under the overall command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the landings on Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah, and Omaha beaches succeeded in establishing a foothold on the continent. Following an arduous campaign in Normandy and savage fighting across the German frontier, troops of the Western Allies met the Soviet Red Army, advancing from the East, and Nazi Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945.
•October 4, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
In this season’s WWII Quarterly, Flint Whitlock shares with us his experiences touring the battlefields of Italy. More »
•October 2, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
By Maureen Holtz
During World War II, American women flocked to be a part of the war effort. They served as factory workers, government agency clerks, WAVES or WAACS, and artists copying propaganda posters. Many young women found that the American Red Cross offered non-nurses a unique opportunity. Jill Pitts Knappenberger More »
•October 1, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
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 »
•September 29, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
The OSS supported the French Resistance by parachuting agents, including Marines, into the Haute Savoie region of France. More »
•September 28, 2018 • 1 Comment
Famed Author Ernest Hemingway Experienced World War II From the Caribbean to D-day’s Normandy Beaches. More »
•September 24, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
By Ray Argyle
Flying a tortuous route from North Africa tothe French coast of Normandy via Casablanca and Gibraltar, an unarmed Lockheed Lodestar of the Free French Air Force broke through cloud cover over the English Channel on the morning of Sunday, August 20, 1944.
The plane carried Free French leader General More »
•September 23, 2018 • 1 Comment
Flint Whitlock shares with us his experiences leading European tours during the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. More »
•September 20, 2018 • 1 Comment
Double Agent Juan Pujol Garcia—a.k.a. ‘Garbo’—helped the Allies mislead the Germans as to the actual D-Day invasion landing site. More »
•September 18, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
By Michael D. Hull
Of all the workhorse weapons in the Allies’ World War II arsenal, from the American M-4 Sherman medium tank and jeep to the British Handley Page Halifax bomber and 25-pounder field gun, none was more widely and effectively deployed than the Douglas C-47 transport plane.
Dubbed the Skytrain by More »
•September 18, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
By Sam McGowan
Undoubtedly, the World War II aircraft type that attracts the most attention is the fighter plane. Yet, before the war, the U.S. Army Air Corps paid little attention to fighter development and tactics because its senior officers, with certain exceptions, would later lead the Army Air Forces with More »
