During World War II, Joachim Benz served on the Eastern Front in a Luftwaffe ground unit known as a field division.   More »

By Kevin M. Hymel
“Bombs away!”called out the bombardier of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber Great Speckled Bird, signaling the release of a full bombload over an enemy target. He was wrong. Two stubborn bombs refused to fall, remaining in their bomb bay racks.
The bomber’s radioman, Technical Sergeant Thomas Fitzpatrick,   More »

By Ray Argyle
Flying a tortuous route from North Africa tothe French coast of Normandy via Casablanca and Gibraltar, an unarmed Lockheed Lodestar of the Free French Air Force broke through cloud cover over the English Channel on the morning of Sunday, August 20, 1944.
The plane carried Free French leader General   More »

American secret agents completed rigorous training during the course of World War II.   More »

Bravery was not enough to overcome uninspired tactics in a bloody clash between Marshal Massena and Viscount Wellington during the Peninsular War.   More »

Two great generals faced off at Zama in 202 BC during the Second Punic War. At stake was control of the Mediterranean and the border lands.   More »

Kansas Brigadier James Henry Lane’s zealous prosecution of the Union cause made him a marked man in the western theater.   More »

A Russian artist showed the world his perspective of Germany’s brutal invasion of the Soviet Union.   More »

Intrigue still surrounds the execution of Mussolini and his mistress Claretta Petacci by communist partisans in 1945.   More »

While the British defense of Crete in May 1941 was considered a military failure, it altered Hitler’s future tactics.   More »