WWII History Late Fall 2011
At about 2:30 on the morning of August 21, 1942, U.S. Marine units east of Henderson Field on the embattled island of Guadalcanal were awakened by several bursts of machinegun fire. Read more
WWII History Late Fall 2011
By the autumn of 1943, the Allied armies fighting in Italy had discovered that Winston Churchill’s description of Italy as the “soft underbelly of Europe” had been a falsehood of monumental proportions. Read more
WWII History Late Fall 2011
After docking in New York on August 28, 1939, only four days before the outbreak of World War II, Captain Adolf Ahrens of Germany’s North German Lloyd shipping line was faced with a decision. Read more
WWII History Late Fall 2011
In early 1942, the air war over Germany was taking its toll on the Royal Air Force. Read more
WWII History Late Fall 2011
August 1944 saw a rosy mood of optimism and self-deception sweep through the Allied high command in France as a result of the sudden, dramatic end to the campaign in Normandy. Read more
WWII History Late Fall 2011
A big challenge faced Maj. Gen. Brian G. Horrocks, an infantryman, when he was cross-posted to take command of the British Army’s 9th Armored Division in March 1942. Read more
WWII History Late Fall 2011
At midnight, the jumpers of 2nd Battalion, 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team, as well as the 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company, still dripping from the paint-spray line, shuffled across Ombrone Airfield to the waiting of Serial 6 and climbed aboard. Read more
WWII History Late Fall 2011
The planning was done behind closed doors. The work was done at secret facilities. The result was the first operational American jet fighter—a plane that might have seen combat in World War II if things had gone differently. Read more
