By Michael Hull
As powerful, fast-moving German panzer and infantry columnsrampaged across Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, and into northern France early in May 1940, the British held their breath and watched apprehensively from across the narrow English Channel.
The lightning “blitzkrieg” advance split the retreating French and British armies, and the outlook was   More »

By Nathan N. Prefer
He organized, trained, and commanded the 4th Marine Division in the Marshall Islands and Saipan campaigns before taking command of the Fifth Amphibious Corps and leading it against Tinian and Iwo Jima. He was on the short list for commandant of the Marine Corps after World War   More »

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 »