Relatively few U.S. generals lost their lives in World War II.   More »

The penny pocket can opener was a well-known and useful piece of GI gear during World War II.   More »

Photographer George Silk captured a familiar image of World War II in the Pacific.   More »

Although it suffered a stinging defeat at Brandywine, George Washington’s Continental Army made an audacious attack the following month.   More »

Budapest’s Hadtorteneti Museum chronicles nearly two centuries of Hungary’s military heritage.   More »

The seizure of Cisterna was a prerequisite to the eventual Allied capture of Rome.   More »

The capture of Java by the Japanese was the culmination of a long series of disasters for the Allied nations in the Pacific.   More »

American and British forces coordinated an effort to eliminate a German threat to the U.S. Ninth Army.   More »

To neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul, American troops would need to take Bougainville in the Soloman Islands.   More »

The steamy jungles of Papua New Guinea proved to be as difficult for the Allies as the Japanese enemy was.   More »