By Edward G. Miller
An air strike intended to cover the landing of 1st Lt. John McGowan’s team of six Alamo Scouts was late. The U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat carrying the team landed in broad daylight a half mile from shore instead of the planned quarter mile, and   More »

By Mark Carlson
Lieutenant Dan Daspit, captain of the U.S. submarine Tinosa could notbelieve his luck. Framed neatly in the periscope eyepiece was a sitting duck. The 19,250-ton Japanese tanker Tonan Maru No. 3 was all alone, dead in the water. Tinosa was on her second war patrol, having left Midway atoll on   More »

In May 1942, a Japanese submarine force snuck into Australia’s Sydney Harbor for a daring, suicidal attack.
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Nazi U-Boats brought World War II to America’s shores as they ravaged merchant shipping off the East Coast.   More »

For three days, Captain Ginsaku Saito men shot, bayoneted, and set fire to over 1,500 people in the Los Baños area.   More »

On June 4, 2014, World War II and Korean War veteran Chester Nez, the last of the original Navajo Code Talkers, passed away in Albuquerque, New Mexico.   More »

By Jon Diamond
Vice Admiral William “Bull” Halsey, commander of the U.S. 3rd Fleet, did not want another protracted campaign like he had experienced while trying to take Munda in New Georgia. He stated, “The undue length of the Munda operation and our casualties made me wary of another slugging match,   More »

Foreshadowing the citizen soldier armies that augmented regular armed forces, civilian construction workers played a key role in the Wake Island story.   More »

Long before M*A*S*H (the Donald Sutherland film and subsequent TV series starring Alan Alda), there was the Portable Army Surgical Hospital of World War II.   More »

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