By Michael D. Hull
Of all the workhorse weapons in the Allies’ World War II arsenal, from the American M-4 Sherman medium tank and jeep to the British Handley Page Halifax bomber and 25-pounder field gun, none was more widely and effectively deployed than the Douglas C-47 transport plane.
Dubbed the Skytrain by   More »

For both the Marine defenders and their North Vietnamese adversaries, the military base at Khe Sanh was the center of a deadly serious chess match between two determined commanders.   More »

By Flint Whitlock, Editor WWII Quarterly
Recently, I saw an article about American MIAs—those service members who went “missing in action” during World War  II—and, frankly, was taken aback. According to figures from the U.S. Department of Defense’s POW/MIA Accounting Agency, more than 80,000 World War II soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines   More »

The Wild Weasel concept gave the U.S. Air Force an effective method for destroying North Vietnamese radar and air defense missile systems.   More »

Clifton Cates was a tenacious Marine in
World War I who rose through the ranks to become commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps.   More »

American infantrymen carried the model 1903 Springfield rifle into battle with them for the first seven decades of the 20th century.   More »

Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin cast the only vote against declaring war on Japan the day after the Pearl Harbor Attack.   More »

The Soviet-made AK-47 and the American M16, the primary assault rifles deployed during the Vietnam War, became symbols of the long conflict.   More »

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 »

The diggers of the Australian military carried the odd-looking weapon into battle. More than 50,000 were produced.   More »