The rivalry between Bernard Montgomery and George S. Patton became heated during Operation Husky, the campaign to liberate Sicily.   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 »

By Michael E. Haskew
In October 1942, at an obscure railroad whistlestop in the wastes ofthe Egyptian desert, the tide of World War II turned. True enough, Nazi spearheads had failed to take Moscow, capital of the Soviet Union, before the grueling winter of 1941 set in. However, the Germans had   More »

By Walter Holden

During World War II, Terry de la Mesa Allen and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.,were ”relieved” during a victorious campaign. These two men commanded the lst Infantry Division of the United States Army, which, even their strongest critics admitted, under the two generals’ “inspirational leadership,” was by far the best   More »

Major General Eric Dorman-Smith was an architect of the strategy that won the first battle of El Alamein in June 1942.   More »

Alfonse Juin is considered by many to be France’s best World War II field commander.   More »

Not even the timely intervention of the British Expeditionary Force could prevent France and Belgium from falling to the 1940 German Blitzkrieg.   More »

Operation Dynamo remains a miraculous episode in the annals of modern military history.   More »

Operation Strangle seemed like a promising way to cut off enemy troops and supplies in Italy. The only problem was the air campaign did not work.   More »

Churchill’s Irish Brigade fought in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy to prove their loyalty to king and country.   More »