WWII History April 2021
Heroic 52 Hours Defending Hatten
By Patrick J. ChaissonThe GIs defending Pillbox No. 9 watched in despair as a weak January sun set behind them. Read more
WWII History April 2021
The GIs defending Pillbox No. 9 watched in despair as a weak January sun set behind them. Read more
WWII History April 2021
No one ever used the words “graceful” or “elegant” to describe the M3 submachine gun. Instead, those soldiers, sailors and Marines who carried it called the M3 a “plumber’s nightmare” or “the cake decorator.” Read more
WWII History April 2021
Erik Shilling, a pilot of the American Volunteer Group (AVG) Flying Tigers, faced the angry mob. There were about 30 of them, all in loincloths and leather vests with no buttons. Read more
WWII History April 2021
The first rays of sunlight on December 7, 1941, marked a typical Sunday morning for the sailors aboard the battleship USS California at Pearl Harbor. Read more
WWII History April 2021
Flight Petty Officer Saburo Sakai was anxious to engage the American carrier pilots for the first time, testing his skills against what he had been told were the best opponents he would come up against. Read more
WWII History April 2021
The Allied invasion of Normandy in France on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day, was the largest amphibious operation in modern history. Read more
WWII History April 2021
The initial command structure in the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater of World War II produced a sharp contrast and clash of wills between two of the principal Allied leaders: British Field Marshal Archibald Wavell, and his American counterpart, Lieutenant General Joseph W. Read more
WWII History April 2021
ONE of World War II’s least known campaigns was fought over one of the most desolate places on earth. Read more
WWII History April 2021
Depending on what kind of setup you have, virtual reality may be old news to you, or it might still be fresh and awe-inspiring. Read more
WWII History April 2021
A recent auction of handwritten speech notes scrawled by none other than Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, aroused the ire of Jewish groups, which find the commercial activity reprehensible since the Nazi regime was responsible for the deaths of more than six million Jews during the 12 years of the Third Reich. Read more
WWII History April 2021
Close to the northern end of the island of Tokashiki, the largest member of a tiny group of islands called Kerama Retto, located 15 miles west of Okinawa and hardly 400 miles from the Japanese home islands, Corporal Alexander Roberts and the rest of the 306th Regimental Combat Team rested for the night beneath the starry skies of the northern Pacific. Read more