Against the Odds: Jeanette Rankin
•January 18, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin cast the only vote against declaring war on Japan the day after the Pearl Harbor Attack. More »
•January 18, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin cast the only vote against declaring war on Japan the day after the Pearl Harbor Attack. More »
•January 17, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
The day after Pearl Harbor, a large Japanese force descended on the British military at Singapore and gave Britain its most humiliating defeat. More »
•January 17, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
In April 1945, as the Allies crushed Nazi Germany from all sides, the Reich that Hitler boasted would last for a thousand years was about to expire. More »
•January 16, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
The Japanese believed they could retake Henderson Field on Guadalcanal from the U.S. Marines in August 1942. Events would prove otherwise. More »
•January 16, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
The five-month campaign by the U.S. Army in 1847 to capture Mexico City pitted Winfield Scott against Antonio de Santa Anna. More »
•January 16, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
Following the English disaster at Stirling Bridge in 1297, King Edward I marched to Scotland with a mighty host bent on crushing the Scots. More »
•January 16, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
Hobart’s Funnies were modified Churchill and Sherman tanks with odd-looking features used to support the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944. More »
•January 16, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
The evacuation of the BEF by civilian and military vessels during the fall of France in 1940 ensured the British Army would fight another day. More »
•January 15, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
To get the intelligence America needed in China, OSS had to conceal its operations from Chiang Kai-shek’s spy master and the U.S. Navy. More »
•January 14, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
German forces overran Yugoslavia rapidly in the Spring of 1941. More »
