It was June 12, 1944 and Lt. Dick Winters was having serious trouble with his paratroopers in Easy Company. Tasked with attacking Carentan, along with other 101stAirborne Division units, only a handful of his men had followed Lt. Welsh of 1stPlatoon when the order came to move out. As a   More »

By Mike Shepherd
Hector Garcia was born in Llera, Tamaulipas, Mexico, on January 17,1914, to schoolteacher parents, Jose Garcia Garcia and Faustina Perez Garcia. The Mexican Revolution drove them from their homes in 1917 and his family legally immigrated to Mercedes, Texas.
Hector’s father, a teacher in Mexico, was not allowed to   More »

America’s much-derided ‘splinter fleet’ of wooden subchasers took the fight to German U-boats in the last months of World War I.   More »

From the Renault FT to the British Mark V and German Sturmpanzerwagen A7V, a great many WWI tanks were innovations in military technology.   More »

By Michael E. Haskew
The concept of elite or “special” forces matured during World War II, and the term became synonymous with extraordinary heroism, particularly against long odds. The editors of WWII History magazine have put together a Special Issue, World War II Special Forces, entirely devoted to these units and   More »

For the first time, bestselling author Patrick K. O’Donnell provides a narrative history of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the battlefield exploits of the hand-selected Body Bearers who laid him to rest in THE UNKNOWNS: The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who   More »

By Richard A. Beranty
The large number of Allied prisoners being funneled south to Rennes, France, following the D-Day invasion swelled the German transit camp to capacity so the decision was made to transport the men to permanent locations inside Germany. They had been captured from all points of the Normandy   More »

By Pat McTaggart
Colonel General Walter Model was a rising star in the German Army in early 1943. The son of a music teacher, Model was born on January 24, 1891, in Genthin, Saxony-Anhalt. In 1909, he joined the Kaiser’s army as an officer candidate, but the harsh training almost made   More »

This WWI Timeline covers the first decade of the 20th century, in which the so-called “Great Powers” of Europe attempted to advance their economic and technological prowess.   More »

The following is part of a combat diary account of Robert von Greim, World War I fighter ace and former head of the German Luftwaffe during World War II.   More »