By Mark Carlson
Lieutenant Dan Daspit, captain of the U.S. submarine Tinosa could notbelieve his luck. Framed neatly in the periscope eyepiece was a sitting duck. The 19,250-ton Japanese tanker Tonan Maru No. 3 was all alone, dead in the water. Tinosa was on her second war patrol, having left Midway atoll on   More »

By Scott A. Bryan

Late in the evening on D-Day two German soldiers patrolled the outskirts of Colleville-sur-Mer, about one mile from Omaha Beach, and spotted Company C, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division resting in a hedgerow field. Standing on opposite corners, the enemy unleashed machine-gun fire and killed seven Americans.   More »

By 1135, there were probably five thousand medieval knights in England, but they differed little from their great-grandfathers who fought with William the Conqueror at Hastings.   More »

Awkward to reload, the distinct advantage of the muzzle-loading flintlock long rifle was its accuracy and range.
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With weapons at the ready, the American squad advanced cautiously on both sides of the tree-lined boulevard toward the German strongpoint in Aachen. Buildings pummeled by Allied shells had toppled to the ground, sending concrete and bricks spilling into the street. Hardly a structure remained intact as a result of   More »

Medieval archers ushered in a new era of missile warfare that ended the dominance of cavalry; sometimes, not even kings and commanders were spared.   More »

By the late 15th century, knights’ suits of armor had reached their pinnacle. But the weapon that would make them obsolete turned out to be the cannon.   More »

A veteran of three wars and known by both Eisenhower and MacArthur, Walton Harris Walker graduated from West Point in 1912, during the Border War with Mexico.   More »

It began with a man, a shovel, and a dream: Dr. William M. Kelso set out to defy conventional wisdom and find the original Jamestown Settlement.   More »

“Take the fight to the enemy” was the motto of Prince Rupert of the Rhine. His mounted force in the First English Civil War was fierce and formidable.   More »