Taking an otherwise nondescript hill on the embattled island of Okinawa proved a formidable task for U.S. Marines.   More »

Even veteran fighting men sometimes suffered battle fatigue at Okinawa.   More »

Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey earned a legendary reputation for daring and boldness as commander of the U.S. Third Fleet.   More »

Led by ‘General’ William Eaton, one of the strangest invading forces in history set out across the desert near Tripoli to avenge American honor.   More »

Choctaw Code Talkers allowed the Americans to execute a surprise attack on the Germans in World War I.   More »

The Qing Dynasty become embroiled in the Second Opium War of 1860 when Britain forced open trade relations with a reluctant China.   More »

During the Korean War, U.N. forces retreating to the 38th Parallel were stalled at Funchilin Pass when a section of the bridge was blown.   More »

Scharnhorst, the Great German Raider, met her end in a storm of British shells and torpedoes in the Barents Sea.   More »

By William E. Welsh
An assault on an Alan woman by an Almogavar of the Catalan Company exploded into a skirmish between the two groups of allies in the pay of the Byzantine Empire on April 9, 1303. The incident occurred at   Cyzicus on the southern shores of the Sea of   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 »